How will this monitor work with a Mac? Is the refresh rate good for gaming? Watching fast action movies?
1141533
Does work with Mac, assuming your Mac supports 4K output. 30hz is pretty bad for gaming unless it is low-motion stuff like Plants vs Zombies, because 30hz limits you to 30 frames per second and feels laggy no matter what you are doing (gaming or not!). All movies, fast or slow, should be okay since movies are almost always filmed at just 24 frames per second. My advice is to wait 3 to 6 months for other 4k monitors to come out with 60 hz capability. Right now, there are no true 4k movies for sale, and unless you spent a fortune on your computer (&gt; $3000), then chances are it won't play recent games very well at 4k resolution.
2155636
I've been using this monitor since last November and I haven't had any problems with gaming. I am not, however, extremely sensitive to ghosting, lag or color reproduction, and I have not noticed anything like that. I do not play a lot of FPS - mostly Skyrim. Hope that helps some.
1204433
I use a Mac Pro desktop with Radeon Graphics and two 30" Dell U3011 displays.So, I can not relate to the question per se. On the positive side, these displays seem to be very accurate, and with AWESOME resolution.On the negative side, sometimes one of the displays stays off-line after "Sleep" and needs a reboot, which I'd attribute to the operating system or the Radeon Card.Overall, I'd give it a 4.75 rating out of five.
1015515
There is a Display Port to Mini Display port cable so ---> mDP to macbook, DP to monitor, walla 4k goodness, make sure your macbook is late 2013 for 4k to work, it will only work @ 30hz under mac os, but will run fine @ 60hz in windows via bootcamp,
1991080
Like on Window's PC's, you will have to download the right drivers. It took me about 4 hours to get my new 1080p monitor to work right, had to download 3 or 4 drivers. Make sure that you go to the ViewSonic page to update all your current drivers first, the disk that it comes with does not have the updates on it. You will probably have to go to Apple to get the right Mac drivers too. It's a pain, but the monitor works awesome once you get it set up. I'm extremely pleased with mine, the side viewing is just as good as direct on viewing. One of my laptops that I have set up for this monitor only has 1GB of Ram, and it works just fine with it.
1811793
I am using it on a MAC running 10.8.4. I think I loaded latest DisplayLink drivers around the end of July looks like latest was in March. So yes works well with latest. I am running a 30" monitor on Displayport 2560 X1600.
332472
I use 2 of these for gaming all the time. they are my monitors on my gaming rig and they are sharp and 'fast enough' for me. Only downside is the viewing angle is a little shallow. however, 99% of the time you won't notice it. Only on very white images. Hope this helps.
1833079
This monitor works great with a MBP. I have both for work, the only other thing I had to purchase was a DVI to HDMI cable (you could opt for an adapter instead). I plug it in and use it as my main monitor. I was so impressed I bought the 24" version to compliment my iMac at home.
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Did you try watching movies from your mac? Are you happy with the viewing experience? Any kind of jittering... etc? I am just worried about the video card on the mini, it is the intel on board 9400 I guess. iMac comes with 256M/512M NVIDEA/ATI cards. What other features do you rate the most?
1619997
Is this the monitor I want to get for fact paced FPS games? Is it a 60 or 75 MHz monitor? I run a Nvdia gtx960 card.
82065
Yes both Mac and PC compatible. It can connect with Pin port or HDMI cable. It has turned out to be a decent monitor. Heads up that the little raised bumps on bottom right are the adjustment buttons, it took me forever to figure that out! That's how you'll select the connection type you're using.
877511
Mine came with a VGA cable. If your MAC has VGA connector, it will hook up to it directly.
885378
I am not sure how your MacBook conects to external monitors but a standard VGA cable works just fine when conecting to a PC. I hope this helps
980626
Okay, so I've spent at least the past hour trying to figure this out, and I finally give up. I had a few problems with Mac and decided to give Windows a try first. Needless to say, I never made it far enough to try it on Mac. Keep in mind, I'm not sure how a Radeon card (and it's drivers) would handle this, as I only have an Nvidia card. So after creating custom resolutions and messing with scaling in the Nvidia Control Panel, I finally got both "displays" to look and function right. The Nvidia control panel reports that I have two 1720x1440 monitors @60Hz, which is the first half of the battle. After I got that far I tried to use Nvidia surround. The Nvidia Surround configuration tool would not let me properly choose anything other than 6880x1440@50Hz. Most likely this is because the drivers detect these "screens" as two 3440x1440@50Hz displays, which is why I had to mess with scaling and custom resolutions originally (something I would consider a design flaw). So basically, the closest I got was running both of these 1720x1440@40Hz "displays" side by side, behaving as you would expect. I'm very skeptical that these are running at 60Hz too. Everything says that it's running at 60Hz, but the fact that I couldn't put them into 60Hz without making a custom refresh rate makes me question whether or not it's really running at 60Hz. Hope that helps.
770784
I don't know the new iMac's video card specs, so you'll want to confirm that. As far as I know, as long as you have the right thunderbolt adapter, the monitor will work fine.Edit: I see others have answered you already. :)
96430
I only have Macs. So yes to macs. From my experience it's no different then hooking up a second monitor. Pc should also work fine.
70607
Hey man. Yeah I bought it for gaming. It's freaking awesome man, it works perfectly and has been the best piece of equipment i've owned yet. I bought it to finish my $1,200 gaming computer setup. I highly recommend this monitor.