Sonnet Technologies Sonata 16MB SD PCI Video Card Mac

by Sonnet Technologies

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002FGEF8
• Item model number: VID-SD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #338,570 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2004

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Second Video Card for a Mac, February 17, 2006

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J. F. Herlocker Jr. - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sonnet Technologies Sonata 16MB SD PCI Video Card Mac (Personal Computers)

This product does exactly what it promises: it lets you use an old monitor as a second display so that you can increase your Mac's desktop space at minimal expense. I have been shopping for a second video card for several months, but most of the cards on the market are aimed at gamers -- high performance and expensive, and worse, usually requiring an AGP slot. The Sonata fits into a spare PCI slot and works just fine. Performance is perfectly acceptable on my Mac G5 1.8GHz -- when I move windows from one monitor to another there is no slowdown in the display update (a problem with another, older PCI card I had tried), even at millions of colors and 1024x768. I used an old 17" VGA monitor, but the card also has a connector for the (now ancient) Mac monitors (I did not test it, however).