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Dual monitors on a MacMini |
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Written by Chris Tangora
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Friday, 06 June 2008 |
 We talked about the beta release of Dynadock drivers for the Mac back in March, but haven't heard much since. While surfing the web I noticed Matt Stook had written a blog post about how his MacMini is pushing two monitors. The drivers haven't been updated since the beta released in March of this year, but Matt goes into a few details about his system.
The dual monitors work fine, especially when the second monitor is used for text based applications. He is even able to watch YouTube videos without any problem. The problem of no 2D acceleration or Open GL affect programs that require Quartz Extreme. If you've been thinking about grabbing a second monitor but don't have a PCI card, consider what you're trying to do. I'm sure Matt will answer any questions you have on how his system works.
There is also the option of going with DualHead2Go from Matrox Graphics. The DualHead2Go splits the horizontal lines in half and sends one half to one monitor and the other half to the other. While this doesn't give you independent control, you do get to keep the full graphics card accelerators & compatibility. You may need to use some extra software to manually adjust the resolution of the combined monitors. Both of these solutions are viable for the MacMini and all the non PCI Macs (MacBook, MacBook Pro & iMac).
Read more about the Dynadock at Matt Stook's Blog
Check prices here for Dynadock
Read more about a DualHead2Go install
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