> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:35 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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 Display port 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 daisy chaining 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. >
I have a 2014 Macbook Pro with Retina display. It can handle two external monitors, one via a thunderbolt port and another on the HDMI port. The computer is fast and never in the way with the i5 2.6 GHz processor, 8 gigs of ram and a 250 gig SSD drive. But I think I’ll still eventually replace my older iMac desktop with an iMac 27 with the 5K Retina display. That’s a 5120 by 2880 monitor. Want. Paul > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] (postbox on min4est) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
