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Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors?

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micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> In comp.sys.mac.system, on 17 Feb 2017 17:21:39 GMT, Jolly Roger
> <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-02-17, micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>>> In comp.sys.mac.system, on 17 Feb 2017 01:02:59 GMT, Jolly Roger
>>> <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> A picture (or more solid details) would surely help. Does it look
>>>> like one of these?:
>>> 
>>> The only picture I have is not very good, but maybe I can post it. 
>> 
>> Next time do that in the first post, and it will save us all some time.
>> ; )
> 
> Sorry. I'm really bad at posting pictures.  I sign up for a service,
> then lose track of which one, what password.  After my last trip, I
> planned to post many of my pictures for friends, but I never did.  
> 
> I'll try to do better than this time. 

No need to sign up to anything. Just upload the image to http://imgur.com
and post the link here. It's simple and fast. ; )

>>>> <http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/apple_cinema_display_23.html>
>>> 
>>> Thanks a lot for these. 
>>> 
>>> This one has a white border, but the border above the screen is the
>>> same height as the border below the screen.  In hers the border below
>>> the screen is almost 3 times as "tall" as the one above the screen.
>>> And in the middle of it is a dark-colored apply logo. 
>> 
>> Now it sounds like you are describing an iMac rather than a standalone
>> display. Is this similar to what you saw?:
>> 
>> <http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac-core-2-duo-2.0-17-inch-specs.html>
>> 
>> If so, that's not a display - it's a computer with a built-in display
>> called an iMac. ; )
> 
> Yeah, that's it!!.  So where is the computer?       Actually, even when
> I thought it was a monitor -- until 20 seconds ago -- I wondered where
> the computer was.  

The CPU is inside the same case. It's an all-in-one machine.

Don't assume this is the actual model. I just found one that looked like
what you described. There are actually many models of iMac of different
vintages that use the same case. So the CPU, speed, RAM, and storage is
anyone's guess without more details to figure out which model it is.

> I called it a monitor in an email to my prospective landlady, and she
> either repeated the word or at least didn't contradict me when she
> replied that she would move it or I could use it, so by then I was
> certain it was a monitor.   Sorry about wasting the time of all of you.

No prob.

> Since there is wifi, can I make it display what is on the windows laptop
> next to it? 
> 
> Or, it also says it will run windows XP and 7.  Can I install a windows
> emulator or whatever, and then install windows on top of that?  
>
> XP is smaller and your page above says it has between 1 and 4 gigs of
> RAM.

I doubt a virtual machine would perform well on that old of a machine with
limited RAM. For best performance you'd want to use Boot Camp and run
Windows natively instead:

<https://support.apple.com/boot-camp>

> And assuming I can do this, if I'm not careful fo update an AV program
> or something else goes wrong, can the windows part of the computer get
> malware and spread it to the Mac part?

If you use Boot Camp you don't have to have macOS installed at all. Viruses
are your problem, of course.

> P.S. I never got very good at Mac and I resist mightily even changing
> windows versions.  Or if I have to change, I hate the changes. 

Whatever floats your boat.

-- 
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JR

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Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-16 19:04 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-02-16 19:25 -0500
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:23 -0500
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 08:54 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-16 19:32 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-17 01:02 +0000
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:28 -0500
      Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-17 17:21 +0000
        Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 23:56 -0500
          Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-18 05:51 +0000
            Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-18 23:01 +1300
            Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-18 06:54 -0500
              Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-18 16:13 +0000
          Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-02-18 08:30 -0800
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-02-16 18:11 -0700
    Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? micky <NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com> - 2017-02-17 02:28 -0500
  Re: Are there VGA input ports on flat screen Apple monitors? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-02-17 06:44 +0000

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