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LG is releasing a nMP Monitor soon
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Has anyone been able to confirm that this monitor can be driven by a Retina 2012 Macbook Pro or Thunderbolt Macbook Air?
Earlier in the thread, it seemed like a Thunderbolt 1 iMac (late 2013) supported the 34UM95 display at 3440x1400 at 60hz...however, everything I read on the internet says that Thunderbolt 1 is built on display port 1.1a standards and only supports up to 2560x1600. Very puzzling.
Earlier in the thread, it seemed like a Thunderbolt 1 iMac (late 2013) supported the 34UM95 display at 3440x1400 at 60hz...however, everything I read on the internet says that Thunderbolt 1 is built on display port 1.1a standards and only supports up to 2560x1600. Very puzzling.
I'll let you know this week when I get one! Hopefully Fry's here will have one tomorrow because I didn't make it over there today. I have the 2012 rMBP and a 2013 iMac, will test it out!
Great!
Anybody who can test it with a 2013 rMBP (15" with discrete graphics)?
(I don't really like widescreen, but this is so wide that I can pretend it's two non-widescreens together
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Seems to work: http://www.amazon.com/34UM95-Panorama-UltraWide-QHD-Monitor/forum/Fx3MXO5MZLOM1X6
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Be careful which box they give you. The 34UM95 looks exactly the same box as the 34UM65. They handed me the wrong one and I almost didn't notice. I can test it with a nMP and a McBook Air.
Thanks! What year MacBook Air do you have? I suspect it will work with haswell 2013 Air but I'm curious about 2002 models.
I bought mine in October 2012 so it's the one before Haswell but it has Thunderbolt. I just plugged TB cable in to the MBA and it lit up with my desktop background as an external display. I checked the resolution in about this mac/ more info/system report/graphics displays and it was 3440x1440. Looked nice, but it was strange trying to move the pointer around the huge area using the MBA trackpad.
The 34UM95 to play a lot nicer with Macs using TB than my 27EA83-D does using miniDP to DP. I can only get my 27EA83-D to work with HDMI from the nMP, but saying that, the colors look nicer than the 34UM95 in my vision (highly subjective).
I'll try that split screen thing with MBA and Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus tomorrow. Might be able to split both monitors and have the nMP share with a MBA and a PC laptop. What use that would be I am yet to determine.
Great news. Thanks for testing. I hope it was at 60hz but honestly I don't know off hand how to check that - maybe in the display tab. I'm glad that it can output the correct resolution without slowing to a crawl.
That's awesome news. I have a 2011 MacBook Pro (15 inch) and a 2013 MacBook Air (13 inch) and was concerned that they would not be able to run the full resolution of the 34UM95. I figured if each of my laptops can run dual Thunderbolt Displays, they could run this monitor. Is it running at 60Hz?
I checked out the MBA and nMP with the 34UM95 again. In the same report it gave the 2GHz i7/8GB/256GB MBA as 3440 x 1440 at 50Hz and the nMP 6C/16GB/512GB/D500 at 60Hz. This was with no processing load.
Very good to know. I should have no issues then. Everything look smooth? I will be doing office work along with audio production and light photo/video editing (Aperture/FCP).
so I have mine on order from B&H and from what I understand I will also need to pick up a TB cable?
I have a haswell rMBP with TB2 and plan on using that port for the display and hanging all my HD's off the display.
When I connect up the display when I get home, the drives will appear as connected to my rMBP correct?
I have a haswell rMBP with TB2 and plan on using that port for the display and hanging all my HD's off the display.
When I connect up the display when I get home, the drives will appear as connected to my rMBP correct?
Im in such a tough spot right now, I sold my 27" Cinema Display and was planning to grab a new display, should I wait till June 2nd hoping apple will release a better monitor or should I pre-order from B&H!!! Will the price remain below 1000$ you think? Decisions Decisions....
Yes, very nice indeed.
The 34UM95 comes with HDMI and Displayport cables only so I bought a 2M black TB cable at the Apple Store but you can get white too. Black ones were kept in the back so I had to ask for one. I have not hung any drives off the monitor.
Was the MBA also hooked up with Thunderbolt, or over HDMI? The reason I ask is HDMI is limited to 50hz. Same with nMP? I've never seen a monitor at 50hz so I'm not sure what that looks like?
This is such great information for those of us looking to purchase, thank you so much for testing.
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Prices never go up, always down. The retail on this monitor on LG's site is $999.00 I believe, so prices should soon start at that and go down from there.
I'm probably waiting until WWDC in June to see if Apple release a new display. Of course, I was expecting a new display at the 2013 WWDC. I'm not longer expecting one, and have about given up on Apple's product delays (still selling only one display with USB 2 and thicker than a Dell monitor - come on Apple!) but given that it is only a month, I think I'm going to wait. If nothing announced there, I'm ordering this LG monitor the minute WWDC ends.
All that changes if I see the LG 34 in person and can't resist!
Thanks for giving me confidence, I will wait it out and if I dont see anything on June 2nd by 2pm EST - just like you will be ordering the LG.
Hello All,
I've hooked up the new LG 34UM95 to my nMP and it looks awesome. It' very nice to have the widescreen. I can have multiples windows side-by-side. I was coming from a 30" ACD, so I thought I would miss the height, but I really do enjoy the widescreen. I did purchase a monitor stand, so that the monitor was a little higher.
Now for my problems. I cannot get the USB Ports to work on the back of the Monitor. I've called AppleCare and LG Support and nobody seems to be able to help. I noticed earlier in this thread that "bxs" was able to get his ports working. I have not had any luck with this.
bxs, if you had any guidance, please let me know if you can help.
Thanks!
I've hooked up the new LG 34UM95 to my nMP and it looks awesome. It' very nice to have the widescreen. I can have multiples windows side-by-side. I was coming from a 30" ACD, so I thought I would miss the height, but I really do enjoy the widescreen. I did purchase a monitor stand, so that the monitor was a little higher.
Now for my problems. I cannot get the USB Ports to work on the back of the Monitor. I've called AppleCare and LG Support and nobody seems to be able to help. I noticed earlier in this thread that "bxs" was able to get his ports working. I have not had any luck with this.
bxs, if you had any guidance, please let me know if you can help.
Thanks!
Have you run a USB 3.0 cable from the nMP to the LG monitor? It busses out the USB 2 and 3 ports from a single USB 3 cable input, and doesn't run the USB off of thunderbolt like the Thunderbolt Display does IIRC.
I think at least one previous poster had indicated it was a Thunderbolt hub.
My mistake! That is concerning. Hopefully you can get it working with the nMP. It would definitely be nice to be able to use those dedicated ports on the monitor rather than need another standalone hub, thats for sure.
Now available for pre-order from Amazon for $999...this should be the official US version with warranty as opposed to the gray market imports from other online retailers:
http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronic...ie=UTF8&qid=1399455014&sr=8-3&keywords=34um95
http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronic...ie=UTF8&qid=1399455014&sr=8-3&keywords=34um95
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