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Ivy Bridge to Bring Triple Display Support to MacBook Air
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Apple needs to fix their displays FIRST before letting us run 3 at a time.
Glossy screens? No thanks. Give us matte finish or shut up.
Glossy screens? No thanks. Give us matte finish or shut up.
So... Ivy Mac Pros will have an internal display?
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You could set two up for video editing timelines/color correction, then spin over to another part of your desk with a monitor + a bunch of audio peripherals...
It's not about what you should do, it's what you can do.
If the monitors can get their own power supply, I don't understand why you can't have an infinite number of monitors connected, provided they're sharing the same image. If you have different images, I can see the GPU getting taxed pretty quickly. The subject picture suggests we're talking about mirroring, instead of expanding the desktop.
Seems like overkill on a MBA given that the graphics will choke doing a video with moderate amt of transitions or special fx. Seems like something only a masochist would want to try out.
Why would anyone need or want to mirror to a 3rd monitor?
Why would anyone need or want to mirror to a 3rd monitor?
My post got buried in the other discussion, and when this one came up on the front page it seemed better oriented for that post. So rather than type a slightly different one I just copy and pasted.
Not trying to push anything, just trying to spurn discussion and have some clarity shed on an issue I'm still trying to work out for myself (i.e., will Ivy Bridge meet the hype?).
May the forum gods strike me dead for my transgression....
Haha, nice sig!
This is nice but doesn't make a ton of sense since Lion is so anti multiple monitors.
I am about to upgrade my Mac Pro video workstation with dual Cinema Displays to Lion and FCP X and I am seriously considering ditching the Cinema Displays and just getting one 27" LED Cinema Display because Lion is catered so much that way.
Sucks that the Mac Pro doesn't have thunderbolt.
Thunderbolt?...Mehhhhhh
Be happy to just see a new Mac Pro.
Gimme PCIe 3.0 on the Pro and the iBoys can keep their Thunderfizzle for now.
Glad I convinced my self I could wait until summer for a macbook air.
The new CPUs are looking great
The new CPUs are looking great
FWIW, my 11 Air drives an external display (DisplayPort to HDMI projector) via Thunderbolt really well.
Haha, nice sig!
This is nice but doesn't make a ton of sense since Lion is so anti multiple monitors.
I am about to upgrade my Mac Pro video workstation with dual Cinema Displays to Lion and FCP X and I am seriously considering ditching the Cinema Displays and just getting one 27" LED Cinema Display because Lion is catered so much that way.
Sucks that the Mac Pro doesn't have thunderbolt.
Lion apps new full-screen mode definitely needs multiple-monitor support, at least allowing other apps to use your other screens (and I suspect that will come in time). But I havent noticed any other Lion/multi-monitor issues, and full-screen mode is optional (you can always maximize the window as an alternative). I really like Lion in general, so if FCP X meets your needs, I say go for it!
P.S. I like that Lion lets you put different desktop pictures on different displays AND different Spaces. So I have two spaces and two displays, and I can have 4 different desktop pictures to keep myself oriented. (I dont think Snow Leopard would do that.)
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Can't wait to see the FPS on this setup
You do not use a MBA, if you want to see a high number of FPS.
Apples port is a combination of TB and miniDP, AFAIK. So the Thunderbolt protocol has nothing to do with displays and their required bandwidth.
Maybe for you. At work, I have an MBP with two external displays (a fairly large Dell on the mini displayport, a smaller Dell on a USB displaylink) in addition to the MBP screen. As a programmer, I'd love to have even more screen real estate, since I usually have a dozen or two files open in emacs (2 frames/4 windows), 3 or 4 terminal windows, my mail/calendar client, a web browser, etc. At a given time, I might be actively looking at 2 or 3 files, a terminal or two, and the web browser. One monitor isn't enough. Two large monitors would suffice. Three Cinema displays would be ideal.
Basic video isn't going be a problem but if you are adding in a lot of GPU intensive fx or using Motion there is no way an MBA won't choke. I can say this with confidence because I have an early 2011 15" MBP that does choke in Motion as soon as my segment gets moderately complex... and that's just w/ 2D camera view.
That's not to knock the MBA, but it it's not made to be a video editing machine. It's a general purpose computer.
+1
I'm still trying to figure out why everyone's going nuts over Ivy Bridge in the MBA, when in reality it's a consumer-level computer designed for consumer-level tasks. If you're really throttling the thing to the point where Ivy Bridge would make a notable difference, you should probably be on a MBP in the first place.
I know, I know...there's a certain small subset of the mac-using population that might wring some actual use out of Ivy Bridge. But I'd bet most of those waiting with baited breath are chasing a phantom, as has been the case for pretty much every rumor I've followed on this site for the better part of a decade.
At the end of the day IB is going to be an ULV processor in a compact, consumer computer. It's not going to revolutionize anything...just an incremental tic-up in the MBA evolution.