Anybody driving a 2560x1440 display with a 2013 MBA?

[zephonic]

I'd like to know, as I am considering an external display for mine.

Alternatively, anybody doing display mirroring via Apple TV?

How's the lag, if any?

 

[flynz4]

I'd like to know, as I am considering an external display for mine.

Alternatively, anybody doing display mirroring via Apple TV?

How's the lag, if any?

I drive 2560X1440 all the time. At work I have an ACD, and at home I have a ATD. Both work fine with my MBA. I also have an HP 2560X1600 30" display... but I am not using it at the moment. I keep it in a secondary office that has been going unused. That monitor uses a mini-display port to dual-link DVI adapter as it only has the DL-DVI inputs.

/Jim

 

[Anonymous Freak]

One of our main developers here at work runs the Thunderbolt Display on his 2012 MBA. (Then again, he also compiles our software and tests it in OS X, when we don't officially support it on OS X when selling it to customers...)

 

[zephonic]

That's good to know, thanks both.

I drive 2560X1440 all the time. At work I have an ACD, and at home I have a ATD. Both work fine with my MBA.

ATD, do you mean Apple TV? So no lag, even under heavy load?

I'm actually looking at an Asus PB278Q. Nice display, not a lot of $$$.

 

[Ztormie]

ATD, do you mean Apple TV?

ATD = Apple Thunderbolt Display
ACD = Apple Cinema Display
😎

 

[w00tini]

I'd like to know, as I am considering an external display for mine.

Alternatively, anybody doing display mirroring via Apple TV?

How's the lag, if any?

no lag. purrs like a kitten in both usage scenarios.... and with the new OS, you will be able to use the ATV to push another screen to an HDTV. Right now it's just mirroring.

 

[ValSalva]

I drive 2560X1440 all the time. At work I have an ACD, and at home I have a ATD. Both work fine with my MBA. I also have an HP 2560X1600 30" display... but I am not using it at the moment. I keep it in a secondary office that has been going unused. That monitor uses a mini-display port to dual-link DVI adapter as it only has the DL-DVI inputs.

/Jim

Just curious, but I've heard that MBA's driving large screens can have constantly running fans, to cool the iGPU I assume. Have you run into this at all?

 

[w00tini]

Just curious, but I've heard that MBA's driving large screens can have constantly running fans, to cool the iGPU I assume. Have you run into this at all?

no... screen size has nothing to do with the fans in the MBA. what kicks the fans on is hammering the GPU/CPU regardless of whether you're using the MBA's screen or an external solution. a 2D situation like a cinema display running regular desktop software (web, music, ect) does not tax the system.

 

[micrors4racer]

Just curious, but I've heard that MBA's driving large screens can have constantly running fans, to cool the iGPU I assume. Have you run into this at all?

I have a 2012 MBA running dual TB displays and it does make the fan spin up. It is summer here so it might be the temperature too but if I disconnect the monitors it runs the fan lower. I do not recall if it did this when it was connected to only one but I will check.

 

[flynz4]

That's good to know, thanks both.



ATD, do you mean Apple TV? So no lag, even under heavy load?

I'm actually looking at an Asus PB278Q. Nice display, not a lot of $$$.

"ATD" = Apple Thunderbolt Display

My fans do not typically run unless I doing that is pushing the CPU/GPU hard... which is almost never.

/Jim