dual screens

[Zammy-Sam]

I was asking myself, if I can connect my laptop (thinking of the powerbook 17'') to a beamer and run my powerpoint presentations the following way:
1. laptop lcd shows the current slide with notes
2. beamer shows fullscreen slide

I am giving a lot of talks and use powerpoint for those presentation and it turned out to be a blessing, if that could work.
Furthermore I was asking myself, if the new powerbook 17inch has a plug for beamers (VGA-out) or at least an adapter for this. Just know about the DVI-plug...

tnx

Sam

 

[ksv]

The powerbook has S-Video output, so you won't even need an adaptor. Most projectors have S-Video, but if it doesn't, use the S-Video-compsite adaptor that comes with the powerbook. An other alternative is using the DVI output, but you'd need a DVI-VGA adaptor, then.

You won't want to use PowerPoint, though. Get Keynote

 

[Zammy-Sam]

Tnx ksv!

Well, now that the hardware part seem to work fine, what about powerpoint? Is it possible to set a fullscreen slide to the s-video output and use slide-preview and notes on the laptop screen?
And why should keynote be better? Ok, let's forget about the fact, that all my presentations are done on powerpoint and that I know almost all functions, what benefits would keynote bring? (different thread, huh?)

But really, could this job be done by keynote? And can keynote read or at least import my pps-files?