support for more than 4 displays

devros · 05-27-2015, 02:55 AM

I use these adapters for display walls at my company that display mostly static content that is only refreshed once every 5 mins or so, so the most displays I could get attached to one mac mini, the better. If there was some way you could support more adapters in some sort of "low performance mode" that would be great, and I would have to buy a lot fewer mini's

computerguru · 05-28-2015, 06:33 PM

devros - I have 7 external monitors connected to my MacBook Pro running the latest beta drivers (the built-in Retina display, 2 via DisplayPort, 1 via built-in HDMI, and 4 via two DisplayLink docking stations.) Like Carlo said, it puts incredible strain on the USB bus, and in some instances, image quality suffers.

My MacBook Pro is running an nVidia chipset, which I think maxes out at 8 monitors (haven't been able to get my two AOC DisplayLink monitors working with this setup..'cause I want 10 monitors...lol.) The Mac Mini uses Intel integrated graphics...and not sure what it's max is.

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05-27-2015, 02:55 AM	#1
devros Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 4	I use these adapters for display walls at my company that display mostly static content that is only refreshed once every 5 mins or so, so the most displays I could get attached to one mac mini, the better. If there was some way you could support more adapters in some sort of "low performance mode" that would be great, and I would have to buy a lot fewer mini's

05-28-2015, 06:33 PM	#2
computerguru Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 16	devros - I have 7 external monitors connected to my MacBook Pro running the latest beta drivers (the built-in Retina display, 2 via DisplayPort, 1 via built-in HDMI, and 4 via two DisplayLink docking stations.) Like Carlo said, it puts incredible strain on the USB bus, and in some instances, image quality suffers. My MacBook Pro is running an nVidia chipset, which I think maxes out at 8 monitors (haven't been able to get my two AOC DisplayLink monitors working with this setup..'cause I want 10 monitors...lol.) The Mac Mini uses Intel integrated graphics...and not sure what it's max is.