Mac Mini 2018 and LG 49WL95C-W 49-Inch Curved 32: 9 Ultrawide

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Thank you for providing the link. I just ordered my monitor and the card I just can’t seem to locate a egpu case for it.

Is it working with egpu now at full resolution?

thanks!

is it in full resolution? 1440?

and without egpu was it working in 1440?

What cable between egpu and monitor?

thanks!

Very nice!

hope it will be ok with my mbp also and my samsung 49!!!

I would think it would but if you are going to run the Samsung 49 you may want to get a better GPU card that can better support the higher refresh rate the Samsung can support.

Has anyone got this work with the Sonnet Breakaway Puck yet? Cords needed? I want the LG 49” but might need to settle on the 38” if can’t get it to work. The Radeon setup is expensive.

Hi, i have a Trashcan with D700 and i want to by this 49" LG, any news??.

Many Thx ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/macmini/comments/ifd5t8/mac_mini_now_can_deliver_5120x1440_pixel_with_the/

I just tried out a custom resolution in SwitchResX (after disabling SIP), grabbing the monitor info for my LG 49WL95C-W from my AMD driver on my Windows 10 machine. I did my best to translate that over. "Back porch" was computed from the totals for both horizontal and vertical. I chose "positive sync." for both because the (working) profile for 3840 x 1080 had them checked. The horizontal scan rate set itself when I saved at 88.860 after I entered in everything else. Alas, it did not work. If someone can spot how I entered the info incorrectly, please LMK. Thanks.

Edit: Also tried unchecking "Positive sync." for the vertical, presuming that this is "Timing Polarity" from the AMD specs. Also failed to activate. Drat.

I have screenshots of both the AMD display specs and the SwitchResX custom profile here:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9eDLU8BBMtgp2ZQE7

VoV5, I have that monitor and a brand new MBP with the latest OS updates. It still won't do 5120x1440. For a machine of this cost, I would expect better than this - at least an acknowledgement from Apple that it's being addressed.

Thankfully Windows does, so when I'm not working, I switch. Honestly seeing less and less value in these machines, they look pretty, but better spec'd hardware and better driver support can be bought for less in PC land.

Great solution. This will probably work with the Macbook Air 2018, I assume. However, to have to spend an additional $400-$500 on an external Radeon graphics card setup *****. I wish it the monitor would just work. My thinking is a programming switch due to competition between LG and Apple.

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I finally got 5K resolution working (5144 x 1440 )with my 2018 Mac Mini on my new LG 49WL95C Ultra Wide monitor. (as per suggested by AlexP788).

I had to spend more money on an external GPU. I purchased the Razer Core X Chroma, with the fancy little lights ($400), you can get it without the lights for $300.

I also purchased the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX580 graphics card.

Everything works great and it was all just plug and play. See pictures below.

The port on the monitor is USB-C and not Thunderbolt 3 with USB-C connector.

10.15 Catalina didn't fix the issue ((((

Is the somebody who knows how to get full res on mac mini 2018 with that monitor ? (((