Q: Does the new Macbook Pro 15" (late 2013) supports 4K via Thunderbolt/Displayport?
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Feb 12, 2014 5:39 AMby johnniecache,Having a retina mbp, i personally don't want any display below 200ppi any more. I believe apple has solved this very well with the retina gui, only that it brings us back to the real estate problem on small displays.
Actually i think that the solution would be 300ppi for the small 13" and 15" displays and 220ppi would be perfect for 27", 30" and 32". This is the way to go. I also understand that apple cant put this on the market before prices have settled for such panels. (around 1k EUR i guess)
Big question remains if ever there will be support for the 2013 MBPr's
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Feb 20, 2014 9:23 AMby DannyWoods,I like Windows 8.1. People,talk a lot of trash on it, but I def don't mind it... I placed an order for the new Mac Pro but it hasn't shipped yet. I'm thinking of canceling amd building a machine. Bigger, more noise but fully update-able and expandable for half the cost. Ha**intosh all day...
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Feb 20, 2014 5:46 PMby bjordanbc,I could never live without either OS to be honest as they both have their pros and cons. The pros of Apple is usually better for the average user and design and the pros of Windows is more in depth customizability and business. I usually switch back and forth between both Windows and Mac on a daily basis. They are both good operating systems but I would never choose one over the other.
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Feb 25, 2014 12:24 PMby johnniecache,aron77 wrote:
still 30Hz and no HiDPI option for me (dell up2414q + late 2013 macbook pro retina 15'' with 750m gfx).
Super sad indeed. There must be a way of forcing the retina display setting. Its probably some parameter in the EDID. Cant somebody do a script similar to the one posted here: http://embdev.net/topic/284710
it must say Retina: -> Yes
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Feb 26, 2014 9:28 AMby jdiamond,FWIW, this could be more than merely a marketing move on Apple's part. If you go back in time a few years, when NVIDIA first launched their 600 series, the hardware supported 4K@60Hz, but the drivers didn't. It took NVIDIA a *long* time to finally get the hack working that combined two virtual monitors into one screen. It seemed to take a lot of work, and other vendors had difficulties as well.
Everyone in the industry might just be waiting to do 4K@60Hz directly, without the two monitor MST hack. Note that this hack would only benefit the highest end late 2013 Macbook Pros - the ones with the the 750 - and I can't imagine there's a lot of volume on sales of that model. It may well be that NVIDIA simply declined to spend the effort needed to make a short-term Maverick MST hack solution for 4K@60Hz for such a small volume - and this might even be the reason Apple went with AMD/ATI GPUs on the Mac Pro - because they were willing to do the Hack.
Personally, I don't understand what makes using HBR mode in a straightforward manner as it stands so diffficult - the bandwidth should be there - but the industry's use of the hack means there must be some issue with it.
