Four extra small thunderbolt displays?

[user19163]

Not sure if this is a display topic or an iMac topic...

I wish I could connect four additional displays to an iMac. Does anybody know who sells small thunderbolt displays? The reason is that three 27" side-by-side displays is not suitable for what I need. I need one main big display and four smaller ones.

What other issues?

 

[leman]

AFAIK, only Apple sells TB-displays and they are by no means small. And I very much doubt that the graphics card would be able to power four displays anyway...

 

[peskaa]

Nobody apart from Apple sells Thunderbolt displays right now, and not any smaller than 27".

 

[Acorn]

does it have to be thunderbolt. the ips dell screens are really nice. i know they have a 23 inch ips right now for 200ish. four of those would be sweet. the nice thing about dells ips monitors is they are antiglare unlike the thunderbolt displays. They do have a better 24 inch for about 300 that has better resolution if your willing to pay a little more.

 

[leman]

does it have to be thunderbolt. the ips dell screens are really nice. i know they have a 23 inch ips right now for 200ish. four of those would be sweet. the nice thing about dells ips monitors is they are antiglare unlike the thunderbolt displays. They do have a better 24 inch for about 300 that has better resolution if your willing to pay a little more.

Now tell me, how are you going to connect these to your iMac?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Now tell me, how are you going to connect these to your iMac?

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/p..._dp/triplehead2go_dp/macbook_pro_thunderbolt/

 

[leman]

http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/p..._dp/triplehead2go_dp/macbook_pro_thunderbolt/

Allows only two monitors with 1080p resolution or three monitors with really low resolution. We are talking about four monitors here.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Allows only two monitors with 1080p resolution or three monitors with really low resolution. We are talking about four monitors here.

Doesn't a 27" iMac have two TB ports? And if so, don't they allow you to connect at least two displays, or do they need to be daisy-chained?

 

[leman]

Doesn't a 27" iMac have two TB ports? And if so, don't they allow you to connect at least two displays, or do they need to be daisy-chained?

Its not about the number of ports, its about what your GPU can drive. And I am pretty sure that number of external monitors is limited.

 

[Acorn]

Now tell me, how are you going to connect these to your iMac?

with these. ive seen people wih 4 monitor config with these many times. even if there wasnt enough usb ports you could get a powered hub. you can use max resolution each.

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Mult...1TP4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1329717509&sr=8-5