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Has anyone used the Matrox DualHead2Go for a Mac Mini?
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I use one on my macbook pro. It's pretty awesome. The drivers that it comes with are pathetic. I ended up getting new ones off the matrox website.
The only thing i have noticed is that it will only do a span, you can't have say 1 image on one screen and another on the second screen.
The dock will appear in the middle of the screen, if you full screen a dvd or video it will appear in the middle of the screen.
Sure you can fix the dock problem, download software to move it to a corner of the screen. But the video you can't
You get a VGA cable with it, and a USB cable. The usb cable is a power connection for the unit, so you loose a usb port on the mini. You will need a dvi converter for the vga cable.
I use one on my macbook pro. It's pretty awesome. The drivers that it comes with are pathetic. I ended up getting new ones off the matrox website.
The only thing i have noticed is that it will only do a span, you can't have say 1 image on one screen and another on the second screen.
The dock will appear in the middle of the screen, if you full screen a dvd or video it will appear in the middle of the screen.
Sure you can fix the dock problem, download software to move it to a corner of the screen. But the video you can't
You get a VGA cable with it, and a USB cable. The usb cable is a power connection for the unit, so you loose a usb port on the mini. You will need a dvi converter for the vga cable.
In other words, all it really does is take two displays, combine the signals, then sends it to the graphic card, fooling it into thinking it's one display (a display with a very odd and very wide resolution).