Thinkpad T42 external display questions

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I am not sure about the T42, but the T42P fits your bill. The "P" stands for
presentation, and is designed to add a second monitor or a projector. The
major difference is the P model comes with a 128Mb ATI Fire GL vid card and
uses the native resolution of 1600 X 1200. Mine works great with a second
monitor, I have no complaints whatsoever with it.

Dan

Marcio Watanabe wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying a Thinkpad T42 and use it regularly as a
> desktop replacement together with the optional IBM port replicator and
> an external monitor. After reading some posts here last year about
> the bad quality of the external video of the R series, I want to know
> if anyone has good or bad comments about the T42 when connected to an
> external LCD monitor. I'm planning to get a model with the ATI
> Mobility Radeon 9600.
>
> I'm planning to use it with either a Dell 20" LCD that has a native
> resolution of 1600x1200 or the Dell 2005FPW that has a native
> resolution of 1680x1050. These LCDs have DVI inputs so I'm also
> curious to know if the T42 can use the port replicator's DVI
> connector.