iMacs and external displays

Irish Halo

Background:
OK the collaboration I work for needs a Mac to run a demo at a conference in September and we are getting two quotes for all our computer gubbins which only differ in supplier A has "only" a top of the range iMac and supplier B has a mac mini. Supplier B however is twice the cost of supplier A so I'll probably go with supplier A.

Question:
Will an iMac behave like a MacBook/laptop when I plug in an external display and let me choose either an extended desktop (not what I want) or show a carbon copy of what is on the iMac's display?

I'd try my own iMac but it got stolen last year :mad:

Thanks for any help.

babypink

by the looks of it the current crop of iMacs only support external displays in mirror mode:

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html

- "Support for external display in video mirroring mode"

Hugh_C

babypink wrote:

by the looks of it the current crop of iMacs only support external displays in mirror mode:

http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html

- "Support for external display in video mirroring mode"

Just above it says:

Support for external display in extended desktop
Digital resolutions up to 1920 x 1200
Analog resolutions up to 2048 x 1536

So I think either mirrored or extended.

babypink

oopers..

Irish Halo

Sweet, thanks guys I missed that bit, I was on that page and everything.