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Post by tonycamphd on May 23, 2015 22:47:57 GMT -6
Ok, so a buddy of mine gave me a 27" thunderbolt display, it's glass was broken, i looked up replacement glass and it can be had for around $125! score! Not so fast, i don't have thunderbolt in my macpro smh...
Does anyone know if there is an adapter to make the thunderbolt display work with a non thunderbolt macpro?
thanx for any info
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Post by jcoutu1 on May 23, 2015 23:06:16 GMT -6
I'll give you $175+ shipping once it's fixed.  |
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Post by NoFilterChuck on May 23, 2015 23:15:22 GMT -6
I'll trade you it for my 23" Cinema Display which uses DVI. I'll pay shipping!
AFAICT, there will never be any PCIe->Thunderbolt adapter cards for older mac pros because the motherboard doesn't have TBolt chips already on it. That's what I found when I searched the issue. You can get PCI->TBolt expansion cards, but they only work with motherboards that already have the tbolt chipsets on them. Asus makes them. they're so you can add more Tbolt ports to your computer when the existing ones get filled up.
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Post by tonycamphd on May 23, 2015 23:45:08 GMT -6
The idea that Apple would sell a $1000 display that doesn't have multiple hookup options is a friggin disgrace, I'm probably just going to put the glass on and sell it for $5-600. It's too bad because it looks killer and is seemingly quite a bit larger than the 23"(appears even larger than 4")
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Post by wiz on May 23, 2015 23:48:02 GMT -6
The idea that Apple would sell a $1000 display that doesn't have multiple hookup options is a friggin disgrace, I'm probably just going to put the glass on and sell it for $5-600. It's too bad because it looks killer and is seemingly quite a bit larger than the 23"(appears even larger than 4") Nah... keep it. With the way you are heading , doing console and all outboard and only a couple of plugs in the box at mix down, you will be able to do it all with a Mac Mini... and get rid of the pro. cheers Wiz |
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Post by guitfiddler on May 24, 2015 5:52:06 GMT -6
Ok, so a buddy of mine gave me a 27" thunderbolt display, it's glass was broken, i looked up replacement glass and it can be had for around $125! score! Not so fast, i don't have thunderbolt in my macpro smh... Does anyone know if there is an adapter to make the thunderbolt display work with a non thunderbolt macpro? thanx for any info Call these guys...Other World Computing. Google OWC. If they don't have it, they don't make it. I buy all my mac stuff from them. I know they have a USB 3 monitor out converter to hdmi, not sure about thunderbolt though. |
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Post by jcoutu1 on May 24, 2015 6:10:05 GMT -6
The idea that Apple would sell a $1000 display that doesn't have multiple hookup options is a friggin disgrace, I'm probably just going to put the glass on and sell it for $5-600. It's too bad because it looks killer and is seemingly quite a bit larger than the 23"(appears even larger than 4") The old displays for G5 Pro's (or was it G4) had a proprietary connection too. When we cleaned out all the old towers, we had to unload the monitors too. |
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Post by ericn on May 24, 2015 13:26:07 GMT -6
Tone bro welcome to my love hate relationship with Apple, been through stuff like this so often I now expect it!
This is why the new rig is being built around a MBP I7 2.8ghz !
Everybody complains about Digi/ Avid, 9 times out of 10 there sudden obsolescence is because of Apple!
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Post by Johnkenn on May 24, 2015 13:35:50 GMT -6
I recently tried to fix something on my wife's work laptop - Windows 8 - and it was a freaking nightmare...I remember why I'll never go back.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2015 14:33:12 GMT -6
Repair and sell it and get yourself a huge hd/2k/4k tv and feed it with HDMI.
That's what we have everywhere in our rooms and the studio, and it's freaking great.
Our main studio display is a really huge 4k chinese tv, awesome stuff at ... below 800 Euro at an opportunity sale...
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Post by category5 on May 25, 2015 13:09:47 GMT -6
Been wanting to get one for the wife for her office (mac mini). Maybe I have something to swap you for it. I might get one night of un-interrupted flux fumes if I surprise her with such an upgrade.
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Post by Guitar on May 25, 2015 13:21:45 GMT -6
What is the advantage of "4K" and is the Apple 27" cinema a 4K monitor?
I'm building a hackintosh and I'm trying to figure out what display I want or need..
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 8:59:33 GMT -6
Depending on what your application/DAW software is capable to handle in terms of scaling to the resolution of the desktop, higher than FullHD resolutions can be of advantage.
So far, most applications still stay HD and do not directly profit from 2k or 4k.
It's a resolution thing.
SD is former low tv resolution with up to 480p (vertical pixels), HD relates to 720p like most DVDs format, FullHD relates to BlueRay/HDTV 1080p 16:9 format, 2K to 2048×1080 or 1998x1080 (~2k horizontal resolution), 4K formats to 4096×2304, and slightly below 4K UHD/QFHD can be 3840×2160...
High resolution displays in the moment are esp. interesting if you also produce multimedia with video.
For my DAW i still try to get into hacking the application scaling to fully profit from the ultra high resolutions ... at the moment it's just scaling HD up, as it seems...(Win8.1/SonarX3).
The Tbolt Apple 27" has a 2560x1440 resolution. Uhm. So call it whatever you want. ;-)
2.5K?
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 9:06:48 GMT -6
In Win world it's possible to set the screen size to more than 100% so this might be the way to profit from more than HD resolution.
Don't know how OSX handles screen resolution, though...
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Post by tonycamphd on May 28, 2015 9:37:32 GMT -6
Been wanting to get one for the wife for her office (mac mini). Maybe I have something to swap you for it. I might get one night of un-interrupted flux fumes if I surprise her with such an upgrade. Hit me up if ur serious Shane, we'll try to figure something out, I gotta make sure everything else is ok on this before I spring for the glass/ fix it. |
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Post by Guitar on May 28, 2015 9:49:39 GMT -6
Depending on what your application/DAW software is capable to handle in terms of scaling to the resolution of the desktop, higher than FullHD resolutions can be of advantage. So far, most applications still stay HD and do not directly profit from 2k or 4k. It's a resolution thing. SD is former low tv resolution with up to 480p (vertical pixels), HD relates to 720p like most DVDs format, FullHD relates to BlueRay/HDTV 1080p 16:9 format, 2K to 2048×1080 or 1998x1080 (~2k horizontal resolution), 4K formats to 4096×2304, and slightly below 4K UHD/QFHD can be 3840×2160... High resolution displays in the moment are esp. interesting if you also produce multimedia with video. For my DAW i still try to get into hacking the application scaling to fully profit from the ultra high resolutions ... at the moment it's just scaling HD up, as it seems...(Win8.1/SonarX3). The Tbolt Apple 27" has a 2560x1440 resolution. Uhm. So call it whatever you want. ;-) 2.5K? wow thanks! it's all so clear to me now, that you've explained it in such simple terms. I always wondered how those numbers correlated, now I know. |
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2015 19:40:07 GMT -6
Well, today i found out everything about taking advantage of the 4K screen on Win8.1. It is actually simple if you get your explanation from someone outside of M§...
Win seems to set the scaling of screen elements up when it detects a high DPI monitor (dots per inch - which is typically everything above FullHD...).
You can scale it back to your liking quite comfortably so you get a sharp image and more room on your desktop. If you want to take advantage of every pixel and sit in front of it like a huge monitor you can also disable the upscaling totally in the applications compatibility settings.
Works slick! Impressive. I can have the full mixer and lots of track waveforms on the screen now...everything i need, huge space. if i put my reading glasses on....well...that's a downside... ;-)
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