Whatever. Even if HDMI can give you full resolution, I refuse to use it over Thunderbolt.
Cuz Thunderbolt's the future.
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Retina MacBook Pro Can Run Three External Displays Simultaneously
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Whatever. Even if HDMI can give you full resolution, I refuse to use it over Thunderbolt.
Cuz Thunderbolt's the future.
If you're at a desk with three external monitors, then plugging in the MBP shouldn't be a problem...
Once I saw this on MR I knew I just had to try it at the office. Lo and behold, works for the 27 ACDs (non-Thunderbolt) and 24 broadcast monitor in my office.
I almost felt a little woozy, swiping from desktop to desktop on all four displays taking up most of my forward view.
I almost felt a little woozy, swiping from desktop to desktop on all four displays taking up most of my forward view.
My question wasn't who. It was how many. I'm thinking that someone who needed 3 displays would lean more toward a Mac Pro. Much better cooling and stronger graphics card.
The gpu for that retina macbook pro is said to be able to power at least 8 monitors at full 1080p.
This is seriously awesome. If Apple updates their MacMini with two thunderbolt and HDMI + HD4000, I can retire my old MacPro. I could save some serious dough by doing a MacMini plus a few TB or USB3 external HDDs instead of buying another MacPro. My workflow requires a minimum of 3 screens.
Mission Control needs to change.
I concur with the people who have pointed out the uselessness of external displays with fullscreen apps (that aren't designed for multiple displays).
Come on, Apple. The Mission Control UI is broken. Fix it.
We should be able to switch desktops for each monitor separately. Heck, it would be nice to move desktops from display to display, if the displays had the same resolution (or even if they didn't, perhaps by telling fullscreen apps to leave and re-enter fullscreen mode).
I'd like to keep a development VM on one screen, while switching between references on another... but as it stands now, I can't.
EDIT: To be fair, the same was true in Spaces, though I could have a full-screen app on one monitor and still use the other.
I concur with the people who have pointed out the uselessness of external displays with fullscreen apps (that aren't designed for multiple displays).
Come on, Apple. The Mission Control UI is broken. Fix it.
We should be able to switch desktops for each monitor separately. Heck, it would be nice to move desktops from display to display, if the displays had the same resolution (or even if they didn't, perhaps by telling fullscreen apps to leave and re-enter fullscreen mode).
I'd like to keep a development VM on one screen, while switching between references on another... but as it stands now, I can't.
EDIT: To be fair, the same was true in Spaces, though I could have a full-screen app on one monitor and still use the other.
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It looks like the keyboard and a boatload of other cables are connected to the left monitor, which would make me wonder if the left one is an Imac....
Any 27" iMac can be used as an external display with a MiniDisplay or Thunderbolt port. However, one can only use the iMac 21.5" with Thunderbolt port as an external display.
This is getting a bit off topic, but this is incorrect. I am on my Late 2008 Aluminum unibody MacBook right now and it has a user replaceable battery. I can't comment on the 15" MBP, but since it was released at the same time I would guess it is the same. I think the previous poster was correct.
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but nobody will do that. why won't you use the iMac itself it is is more powerful than your other computer.
Maybe if the MBP is set up with the apps you need, while the iMac isn't?
Nobody said that you necessarily own both machines. Particularly in academia, there are such things as 'computer labs'. (Though I have to admit that using a lab machine as a display can be uncouth, if there are people waiting...)
opps, i overlook this point.
speaking of that, i always bring around a vga with me and plug into the display in my school lab.
That's why I bought the MDP-to-VGA adapter first; all the projectors at school have VGA hookups, not DVI.
Nope. It's not an iMac. The bezel is perfectly even around the screen.
Sorta looks like there's a Mac Mini behind it, though.
Thats what I'd like to see too. I just ordered a 17 inch MBP and want to use a Blackmagic Intensity Extreme and an external display at the same time but unfortunately can't.
How is it possible to simultaneously run four screens at once whilst playing a video on each and it not be possible to scroll properly/run mission control in scaled mode!?