steve harley wrote:
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
Thanks Steve. The good news is that you just saved me a trip to Fry's
and the money for setting up a thunderbolt SSD to use for my lightroom
catalog as a way of daisychaining displays. This is probably a good
thing because it was just brought to my attention that I am in a kinky
poly relationship, it seems that my wallet is submissive to my house.
One of the joys of home ownership is being happy to find a puddle on
your living room floor because that means that you have a chance to
track down the mysterious intermittent leak that only shows up every few
months.
I suppose that I should eventually look to see what macbooks, if any,
will support multiple high resolution displays. I love the way that
apple makes 97% of what I want to do trivially easy. I hate the way
that it makes it so difficult, or impossible to upgrade after the fact,
or to do anything that it didn't occur to them that people would want to
do. For various reasons both of these contribute to Apple being such a
profitable company.
In the meantime, I guess I now have a much nicer display than I had
originally intended for my Linux box.
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