If you want to drive an external monitor from an older Mac with a mini
>> display port output you will get MUCH better results with a mini display
>> port to display port cable than with a mini display port to HDMI cable.
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>> Cheers
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> Reply-To: WAMUG mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au>>
> Date: Friday, 25 March 2022 at 14:26
> To: WAMUG mailto:wamug@wamug.org.au>>
> Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Cannot get external monitor to display full resolution
>
> Hi Neil, I read
external monitor to display full resolution
Hi Neil, I read this with interest as I too have found the adaption of external
monitors with Mac’s a bit hit and miss.
As a test, do you have on hand a late model Mac/Macbook you could see if the
later OSX is smarter in this sense and how
Hi Robin,
Yes, I read that article also and tried that - but it shows no additional
resolutions.
Cheers
Neil
From: on behalf of Robin
Belford
Reply-To: WAMUG
Date: Friday, 25 March 2022 at 14:35
To: WAMUG
Subject: Re: [WAMUG] Cannot get external monitor to display full
Neil,
Have you tried holding down the option key when selecting the display
resolutions?
Open System Preferences from the Apple menu in Mac OS X
Click on “Display”
Under the ‘Display’ tab, hold down the OPTION / ALT key while you press on the
‘Scaled’ button alongside Resolution to reveal
Hi Neil, I read this with interest as I too have found the adaption of external
monitors with Mac’s a bit hit and miss.
As a test, do you have on hand a late model Mac/Macbook you could see if the
later OSX is smarter in this sense and how it recognises the external monitor
when you plug it
OK, here is the iMac setup:
Late 2009 27” iMac – top configuration, 2.8 GHz core i7, Graphics ATI Radeon HD
4850 512 MB
iMac has been reconfigured with 250 GB SSD, 3TB internal drive and currently
20GB RAM
Currently running El Capitan OSX 10.11.6
With the SSD and RAM upgrade this is
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