On 2015-01-10 3:16 , Larry Colen wrote:
I recently came across a great deal on an HPZR2740w display. I was very
excited because my second display which I have set up as a 23" vertical
monitor, is only 1920x1080 pixels and I have always wanted something bigger.
At 27" and 2760x1440 (the same as my apple monitor), the HP definitely fit
the bill.
As it turns out, my late 2012 mac mini won't support it at anything close to
full resolution on the HDMI port. Apple has also crippled the software so
that I can't simply plug it into the thunderbolt port on my apple monitor
and chain it using the mini-display port.
I have heard rumors that if I were to put another thunderbolt device between
my apple display and the new display, I would be able to run the second
display at full resolution that way.
not just rumor, there is solid reporting on it here:
<http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/09/apples-thunderbolt-display-doesnt-play-nice-with-mini-displayport/?comments=1>
however i am sorry to say you are SOL because that "intentional crippling",
and the workaround, only applies to 2011 Minis with a discrete GPU (i just
sold one of these, though i never ran two Thunderbolts displays)
unlike select 2011 models, no 2012 models had such a GPU, and thus they have
only one Displayport channel embedded in the Thunderbolt output, which means
no chance of daisy-chaining even if Apple hadn't "crippled" it
the bottommost table on this page lays out the display capabilities of all
the Minis:
<http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/mac-mini-aluminum-unibody-faq/mac-mini-aluminum-video-processor-display-support.html>
one might hope that the various external Thunderbolt-PCIe chassis would
support an external video card, and thus larger displays, however i
understand there are no drivers for such unless you boot your Mac into Windows
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