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OCR: Meet the Mac The Monitor The monitor is your into the Mac The Mac was the first mainstream personal computer to rely on bitmapped display- -one in which every- thing un the screen even text is drawn as graphic The Mac's bitmapped screen S what makes it pos- sible to display type fonts in variety of sizes and styles- -not to mention great graphics. With the Monitors control panel (or, un the Power Mac 7500 and 8500 the punos Displays control panel) you can adjust variety of monitor settings, including the number of colors or gray shades the How color monitor works Mac displays. Unless you re working with color im- ages or QuickTime movies, it's good idea to use lower bit depths- fewer colors Or gray shades, such as 256 instead of thousands. Doing so improves performance with tasks such as s ...