[jwells89]

I’d love to see something like this for late 90s through mid 00s computers, because many of those machines can still find modern uses but are awkward to use with modern high-resolution displays, even if they can sometimes be adapted digitally (DVI-equipped machines). Of course you can always grab an old monitor to pair with said machine, but that comes with heavy picture quality concessions in the case of LCDs, and good CRT monitors are becoming rare and expensive.

So for example it’d be super cool to be able to drop a new GPU into a PowerMac G4 tower and allow it to drive a modern 2560x1440 display under both OS 9 and OS X.

[jandrese]

Just be aware that old machines can bog way down when you start asking them to push millions of pixels. Their old graphics subsystems were never designed to handle that much data, bus widths are a major bottleneck.

[jwells89]

Yeah that’s a good point. There’s definitely some machines in that bracket that are capable since with the right GPUs they could drive similar contemporary displays though (G5 tower with circa 2005 2560x1600 Apple display for example), and it’d be great to not be restricted to only those old GPUs to gain that capability.

For older machines even cleanly driving a new 1920x1080 display without a dongle would be a nice upgrade.