#MAC AIR VIDEO CARD PRO#
Would an iMac, Mac Mini, or Mac Pro better suit your computing needs, complimented with a basic MacBook Air or iPad of some kind for your mobility needs. If you don't have two Thunderbolt Displays, you are kind of still out of luck hooking up dual displays to even a Thunderbolt MacBook Pro, with out the need for expensive external adapters. Would a newer model MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt solve this problem, maybe maybe not. Your last option is to maybe reevaluate if this MacBook Pro is the right machine for your needs. And even if you could you would be talking over $500 USD just to get the external PCI express chassis, for example Magma's ExpressBox 1 starts at $829 for just one external PCI Express slot, you would still need to spend another ~ $200 to buy a mac compatible graphics card. This MacBook Pro also lacks an ExpressCard/34 slot or Thunderbolt so you really can't go the route of an external graphics card. Honestly, the Matrox route is probably the most affordable workable solution to this problem. See that orange highlighted square, thats the NVidia GeForce pictured below: The graphics card is a key integrated part of the logic board on the MacBook Pro, there really is no separation of it from it to do an upgrade, short of replacing the entire motherboard, and even then you would be limited to what was available at the time for that generation of MacBook Pro. Unfortunately, there is not a cheap good or ideal way to do this. Or add another graphic card externally? (USB? does that even exist?) Use this adapter with: Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac Mini (Mid 2010 and later) Macbook Pro (Mid 2012 and later) Meeting Tomorrow provides organizations and businesses with AV and event technology services including computer rental solutions, LCD projector rental solutions, and iPad rental solutions. So I'm looking for a real solution for Macbook Pro dual external screen.Ĭhange my graphic card? (I don't even know where the second video output would go.). I thought it was an external graphic card, I had no idea that the processor would be doing the job instead (and very poorly).įurthermore I don't want to spend $200 or $300 to try the Matrox DualHead2Go and finally consider that the fact that it's one big "screen" extended over 2 screens (and not 2 real screen separed) is annoying (i'm really afraid this is would be a pain). I can't even watch a video on it, you can even see the difference when moving the mouse (and I have a i7 quadcore processor -_-).
I have tried DisplayLink USB to DVI adapter but it's really choppy and unusable for me (photo and video editing). What I am trying to do is have dual external screen (Macbook Pro docked and closed). Or else is it possible to add another graphic card in (or outside) the Macbook so that I can use another display. Is that possible to replace the existing graphic card of a Macbook Pro (Mid 2010, Mini DisplayPort, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M) for a graphic card that could support 2 screen output?