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2011 imac additional monitor?
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Yes, it works very well. Scroll down this link to see a pic of my new iMac connected to my Dell monitor. I'm using the apple mini display port to dvi adapter. The iMac recognized the second monitor immediately.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1148415/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1148415/
I have my 2011 iMac 27 inch hooked up with my Samsung SyncMaster 226BW with no problems at all. Easy to setup in Mac and also Bootcamp with Windows 7. The Samsung has its own profile from the iMac in the settings area (Display). When you open that up on the iMac side it will show iMac settings(2560X1440) and when it is on my Samsung(1680x1050) it shows separate settings. You can mirror, continuous, etc. Very easy to connect with the mini displayport (Thunderbolt port) to DVI. I got the one that Apple sells and it works great. You can even have different Wallpaper for each
I dont know what this post is for either. Switchres was great for CRTs which had multiple resolutions, but LCDs are meant to run at one resolution only: their native resolution. And switchrex is *totally* unnecessary to run dual monitors with. Useless for that function.
iMacs have been able to run dual monitors ever since the G5 models -- and all you need is OS X.
Plug it in and go.
You can use a mini display port (iMac) to display port (u2711) cable, $5: http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=mini+display+port&x=18&y=10
You know, this is all covered on Apples site: http://www.apple.com/imac/specs.html
If you use multiple monitors with sl you will notice you can't disable the second monitor without unplugging it from the iMac. Switchresx is used to disable the second monitor without unplugging it. I dont bother with the other features of the program
Fair enough. But it confused the OP more than helped.
gotta be clear as to its "use" as a bonus above and beyond OS X native dual monitor support
gotta be clear as to its "use" as a bonus above and beyond OS X native dual monitor support
Hi Pipper99,
And how about that setup with Lion installed? Works OK? I'm considering the very same setup so I'll appreciate your opinion now when Lion is here.
Rgds,
Nesha
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A story about changing 'primary' monitors
I'm sitting pretty with a 27" iMac and a 30" Dell. Despite the Dell's higher resolution, the superiority of the much-newer IPS (LED et all) iMac keeps it as my primary screen - which means my dock and menubar on the top are on the iMac (esp since I video conference a lot and the camera is there, too).
So when I was early in my OS X days, I struggled in the menus to figure out how to 'move the clock' (or menubar, more accurately) from my 12" PowerBook to larger external LCD. It simply wasn't there in display preferences, or anywhere else! My ingrained Windows conditioning told me to keep searching submenus and eventually I'd find it.
Finally I exhaled and took a step back. 'What's the most Apple-easy way to accomplish this?' I asked myself. I grabbed the menubar in the 'Arrangement' tab of Display Preferences with my mouse and dragged it over the the other screen. Voila! Elegant and brilliant. From then on, despite the crappiness of G4 architecture, there was no going back.
I'm sitting pretty with a 27" iMac and a 30" Dell. Despite the Dell's higher resolution, the superiority of the much-newer IPS (LED et all) iMac keeps it as my primary screen - which means my dock and menubar on the top are on the iMac (esp since I video conference a lot and the camera is there, too).
So when I was early in my OS X days, I struggled in the menus to figure out how to 'move the clock' (or menubar, more accurately) from my 12" PowerBook to larger external LCD. It simply wasn't there in display preferences, or anywhere else! My ingrained Windows conditioning told me to keep searching submenus and eventually I'd find it.
Finally I exhaled and took a step back. 'What's the most Apple-easy way to accomplish this?' I asked myself. I grabbed the menubar in the 'Arrangement' tab of Display Preferences with my mouse and dragged it over the the other screen. Voila! Elegant and brilliant. From then on, despite the crappiness of G4 architecture, there was no going back.