Mac powerbook pro retina with external monitor
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We then loaded up a 4K video and moved the window around the screens while the video was playing. We started off by swapping between spaces with a handful of programs like Safari, IRC, Twitter, Lightroom, and Photoshop running at once, and it was all surprisingly smooth. Of course, simply displaying a static image on all four monitors at once is one thing - being able to run programs and play videos across all four is another matter altogether. That doesn't appear to be the limit, however: OWC Blog ran the same test but with two 2560 x 1440 displays and a 1920 x 1200 monitor. The 15.4-inch Retina display itself clocks in at a whopping 2880 x 1800, which means that the computer was pushing out a total of 10.7 million pixels when hooked up to the three external monitors.
#Mac powerbook pro retina with external monitor 1080p#
We plugged in two 1080p monitors using DVI to Mini DisplayPort adapters and connected another 1600 x 900 monitor over HDMI, and all of the displays lit up with Lion's well-known Andromeda Galaxy wallpaper.
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The more demanding users among us could only think of one thing when Apple announced that the MacBook Pro with Retina display had two Thunderbolt ports in addition to its HDMI out: could it possibly run four displays at once? We didn't get to test it out for our review of the laptop, but now we have and we can say that it's able to push all of those pixels without much of a problem so long as you keep your imagination in check.