Love the IIsi, but the video subsystem is downright awful. It's called Vampire Video because the IIsi buffers DRAM on the MoBo as a horrid, performance sapping, viciously cost cutting substitute for a proper VRAM based frame buffer.
Snag a Radius Color Pivot II/IIsi before the supply dries up and prices rise. [
] ]'> With it you'll get a usable 16" resolution along with better memory subsystem performance. When no monitor is connected to the built in video connector at startup none of the MoBo RAM is buffered for Vampire Video, the full complement remaining contiguous system memory.
There's still no standard 60Hz VGA output from the RCPII/IIsi though, so you'll need a good multi-sync display as you will/would with anemic built in video output.
. . . and welcome!
Snag a Radius Color Pivot II/IIsi before the supply dries up and prices rise. [
] ]'> With it you'll get a usable 16" resolution along with better memory subsystem performance. When no monitor is connected to the built in video connector at startup none of the MoBo RAM is buffered for Vampire Video, the full complement remaining contiguous system memory.There's still no standard 60Hz VGA output from the RCPII/IIsi though, so you'll need a good multi-sync display as you will/would with anemic built in video output.
. . . and welcome!