How is it with the macbook pro ? is it batter or not then the apple cinema ( thunderbolt) display ?
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Not that good at all, if you're speaking of the 27" Apple Cinema Thunderbolt display it has a 2560 by 1440 pixels resolution, the Asus MX279H monitor only has 1920x1080. At 27" this 1920x1080 is not enough, go with the Thunderbolt display, it beats this one by a lot.
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I have a dell xps and the monitor is excellent. Great quality. I use my mouse pad right under the control panel so I often bump the buttons. I wish the buttons were on the side and not the bottom on the right.
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As a life long Apple user I'd be the first to tell you if it was worth it for the Apple display, but it's not, not when this screen is $300. This screen would be amazing if it was $600, thats how beautiful it is. Don't get any ideas Asus. Seriously though, don't get the Apple Display. If you buy this screen I personally promise that by the end of month one, you'll love it just as much as the computer you use it with. if you're a gamer I would pass on this display, but for everything else this is what you need. I'm looking at it right now (it's hooked up to my PS4) and i'm smiling. Thats how happy this amazing screen makes me, but to answer your question, it's works perfect with the macbook pro. As a life long Apple user I'd be the first to tell you if it was worth it for the Apple display, but it's not, not when this screen is $300. This screen would be amazing if it was $600, thats how beautiful it is. Don't get any ideas Asus. Seriously though, don't get the Apple Display. If you buy this screen I personally promise that by the end of month one, you'll love it just as much as the computer you use it with. if you're a gamer I would pass on this display, but for everything else this is what you need. I'm looking at it right now (it's hooked up to my PS4) and i'm smiling. Thats how... » Read More As a life long Apple user I'd be the first to tell you if it was worth it for the Apple display, but it's not, not when this screen is $300. This screen would be amazing if it was $600, thats how beautiful it is. Don't get any ideas Asus. Seriously though, don't get the Apple Display. If you buy this screen I personally promise that by the end of month one, you'll love it just as much as the computer you use it with. if you're a gamer I would pass on this display, but for everything else this is what you need. I'm looking at it right now (it's hooked up to my PS4) and i'm smiling. Thats how happy this amazing screen makes me, but to answer your question, it's works perfect with the macbook pro. « Show Less
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It was this display or the Apple display for me. I even considered buying a 27 inch iMac to replace my MacBook, but I purchased this screen for around $600 less than the apple screen at the time, and I have not regretted it one bit. I am a Mac guy, but this screen is absolutely brilliant. Like another reviewer said, it would be worth the cost at twice the price; but I don't want Asus getting any ideas!
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As a life long Apple user I'd be the first to tell you if it was worth it for the Apple display, but it's not, not when this screen is $300. This screen would be amazing if it was $600, thats how beautiful it is. Don't get any ideas Asus. Seriously though, don't get the Apple Display. If you buy this screen I personally promise that by the end of month one, you'll love it just as much as the computer you use it with. if you're a gamer I would pass on this display, but for everything else this is what you need. I'm looking at it right now (it's hooked up to my PS4) and i'm smiling. Thats how happy this amazing screen makes me, but to answer your question, it's works perfect with the macbook pro.
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Yeah. Mini display and thunderbolt are the same size/thing. Works perfect with my MacBook Air.
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Did you follow the instructions and let it charge for 24 hours before first using it? I have my MBP set to "Better Battery Life" and sleep/turn off display after 15 minutes, in Energy Preferences. After watching 75 minutes of video over WI-FI on battery, and Bluetooth turned on for the mouse, I have about 30% battery life left. I don't think that's quite as good as the Apple battery when it's new, but I can live with it.
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I am using it as a monitor for my Macbook Pro and love it so far. The size is great and it is super sharp. Hooks up easily with one HDMI cable (not included). I don't use it for photos in particular so I cannot comment about that.
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Not really. It's only used for Time Machine backups and is connected to the 27-inch Apple Thunderbolt display. That leaves 2 thunderbolt ports on the MacBook itself iof we need to connect other items.
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I bought mine used almost a year ago and it was completely worth the $500 I spent on it. If you haven't used mac before I would check one out at a store first. The one I got was in perfect condition with everything. This particular model is really nice. Very similar to the modern MacBook Pro. Looks basically identical but has the last gen of processors. I bought the upgrade to mountain lion and now mavericks and it runs them just fine. The only downside to these older models is that you cannot run mirror through your Apple TV. Otherwise it handles just about anything you could need.
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Mine worked, now and then, after rebooting the Mac book and power cycling the projector and disconnecting and reconnecting about 20 times. Then I got tired of this and spent the $29 for the "real deal" from Apple and it "just works." This device is not as universal compatible as the Apple product.
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The Fosmon mini displayPort (MiniDP/mDp) to HDMI works well. The problem I had at first with my MacBook Pro wasthat I did not have my display option set to "Mirror" the computer's screen. Now I watch movies etc. on my HDTV.
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No it is not a thunderbolt display. You are simply using the displayport2 protocol to send display info to the monitor. You will need to use another wire to send USB, and in my experience so far that does not work. It's a great display once you tell OSX how to display colors, out of the box it's going to look fuzzy and distorted - don't worry, it's just a command prompt configuration setting to fix.
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which thunderbolt 2 do you mean? is it on Macbook Pro Retina? i found it works well on my Macbook Pro Retina early 2013
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Good question. I just recently bought a MacBook Pro and honestly it didn't dawn on me to try it. I'll test it out and let you know.
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I'm still using my white 13" Macbook Late 2008 daily and have never had a problem. The battery doesn't hold like a new one but it is 4 years old. I've had one small crack in the case but a dab of clear Gorilla Glue fixed that. I'm running Lion 10.7.5, Office 2011, Photoshop Elements 10, all without problems. You should know that Apple no longer supports this model and the video hardware is not supported by Mountain Lion 10.8.
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Yes, works great! Can get glitchy on start up but you just have to turn off and on and it catches...but the resolution is just like a Retina and much better than a Thunderbolt display.
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yes it is a thunderbolt to HDMI as in you can use your macbook and see it threw a HDMI monitor
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I have not had great success with the new macbook pro. The extended monitor goes black and I have to unplug the cable and reattach to get the extended screen back up again. The extended monitor is a PB278Q ASUS. I don't know if the cable is the problem. Apple support told me that they only support dual dvi with their adapter for 2560 x 1080.
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I bought the 1T model for my son who has a MacBook Pro. If it did not work I would have ehard about it, and I have not heard anything.
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I just returned my HP Envy 27-inch monitor to Amazon. I too have a 2012 MacBook Pro (13") and attempted to hook it up to the monitor via HDMI (adapted from thunderbolt? - not the mini video port of old). The picture was horrible, fonts were unreadable. A 90-minute call to HP support revealed that they have no driver support for Mac and all the fiddling with the settings on the Mac did not solve the problem. Oddly, I have my MacBook Pro hooked up to an older HP 23" monitor via HDMI and it works like a charm. Not sure what the difference is between the two monitors, but there it is.