Hi 68K'ers! 
I'm sorting through my collection, which I haven't had time for in years. I'm looking at one particular machine, my PowerMac 7100/80.
I acquired this one about 5-6 years ago from a city government auction. It was missing the hard drive but otherwise complete. I've since added a 700MB Quantum.
Anyhow - this thing has the (decidedly bizarre) HDI45 video connector on the logic board. It also has an Apple PDS video card, and NuBus Radius "8-bit video accelerator" card. I normally want my systems to be as complete as they can be, so it bothers me that I can't use that HDI45 port since I have no adapter or native monitor. But -- am I right in thinking that the on-board video would be slower than the two add-in cards (both of which have a normal DB-15 connector)? I'm assuming the on-board video uses shared RAM as well. If that's the case, I will resolve to happily ignore the giant HDI45.
I'm sorting through my collection, which I haven't had time for in years. I'm looking at one particular machine, my PowerMac 7100/80.
I acquired this one about 5-6 years ago from a city government auction. It was missing the hard drive but otherwise complete. I've since added a 700MB Quantum.
Anyhow - this thing has the (decidedly bizarre) HDI45 video connector on the logic board. It also has an Apple PDS video card, and NuBus Radius "8-bit video accelerator" card. I normally want my systems to be as complete as they can be, so it bothers me that I can't use that HDI45 port since I have no adapter or native monitor. But -- am I right in thinking that the on-board video would be slower than the two add-in cards (both of which have a normal DB-15 connector)? I'm assuming the on-board video uses shared RAM as well. If that's the case, I will resolve to happily ignore the giant HDI45.