Hello, guys
this is my first post here and please forgive me if I post something in wrong way.
I ordered:
Apple Mac Mini
2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
4GB memory
500GB hard drive1
Intel HD Graphics 4000
OS X Mavericks
and Dell U2414H http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&sku=860-BBCG
Today I searched on internet about Mac Mini + Dell U2414H and it looks like there is a problem when connecting them over DP. Here is the original posting:
and this is the original link: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3529/t/19542085.aspx
An answer from dell's forum moderator says:
This is from another forum: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1975248/displayport-dell-u2414h-monitors-work.html
Does someone has these two items and has the same issues?
Do you think everything will work fine or I should cancel the order and choose another monitor?
this is my first post here and please forgive me if I post something in wrong way.
I ordered:
Apple Mac Mini
2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
4GB memory
500GB hard drive1
Intel HD Graphics 4000
OS X Mavericks
and Dell U2414H http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&sku=860-BBCG
Today I searched on internet about Mac Mini + Dell U2414H and it looks like there is a problem when connecting them over DP. Here is the original posting:
This is clearly some kind of an issue with the monitor. People all over the world are having problems with DP connection on the U2414H. Moreover, two professional reviews talk about very strange and absolutely uncommon behavior of the U2414H, when it connected over DP.
TFT Central: On top of this we did find the DisplayPort input to be incredibly fussy. We had a great deal of difficulty getting a laptop connected over DP, when normally on every other screen it's just a simple case of plugging it in and it automatically detecting the appropriate resolution and refresh rate. With the U2414H it seemed to occasionally work, but quite often the screen would inexplicably just show "entering power saving mode" or worse still seem to make the graphics card driver crash when it tried to use DisplayPort. We're not sure what was causing this, but it's the first screen we've used which gave us these kind of issues. From our normal testing PC the DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort seemed to work fine thankfully. Had the screen featured VGA we could have avoided those issues with the laptop hopefully.
One other issue was that the DisplayPort connections didn't seem to detect a signal if your PC was waking up from sleep, so you'd have to unplug and re-plug the cable sometimes to get the screen to display anything again. Alternatively you can power the screen fully off and on again via the power button which allows it to redetect the input again.
PC Monitors: An Nvidia GTX 780 was used on our test system and we tested both DisplayPort and HDMI with interesting results. When using either DisplayPort or HDMI the GPU sent out the wrong colour signal (Limited Range RGB 16-235 instead of Full Range RGB 0-255). This reduced gamma, skewed white point, hugely impacted contrast and simply gave everything a washed out look. We are quite used to seeing this with Nvidia GPUs connected via HDMI as that is their default behaviour treat the connected device as an HDTV. But we arent used to seeing this over DisplayPort which is currently a PC-only output. We tested the MiniDP port as well as the full sized DP port using both DP 1.1 and DP 1.2. The native resolution of the monitor (1920 x 1080) is listed under Ultra HD, HD, SD as 1080p, 1920 x 1080 (native) when connected by DisplayPort. This list of resolutions is designed for output in RGB 16-235 to devices such HDTVs. The resolution should instead be listed under PC as 1920 x 1080 (native), but it isnt.
and this is the original link: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/peripherals/f/3529/t/19542085.aspx
An answer from dell's forum moderator says:
Should I be worried when Mac Mini has Intel HD 4000 video card?The displays team has already closed this discussion. Going forward, you are going to see many more monitors from us and other vendors that will be reported by AMD and Nvidia as HDTV's. They are pushing this, not Dell.
This is from another forum: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1975248/displayport-dell-u2414h-monitors-work.html
It appears that my lenovo laptop has the Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000, which does not support displayport 1.2; it only supports 1.1a.
For the mac, it has thunderbolt 1, which does not support 1.2 displayport. The new thunderbolt 2 connector does support displayport 1.2
Does someone has these two items and has the same issues?
Do you think everything will work fine or I should cancel the order and choose another monitor?