2012 - 2x 1440 Displays (?)

[Foogoofish]

Hi All! I have just been on with Apple chat support, and they confirmed that the HDMI can not run 1440 out of the back of the 2012. After suggesting a Thunderbolt 'splitter' (which I didn't even know existed!), they basically said that was what needed to be done. Has anyone managed this?

This article states "Support for up to two displays at 2560 by 1600 pixels, both at millions of colors"
https://support.apple.com/kb/sp659?locale=en_GB

So I ask for your help... I can't see these anywhere! Are there alternatives such as:

A Mini DisplayPort to 2x HDMI - would that allow me to run both at 1440?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

 

[ActionableMango]

Many 1440 monitors only support 1920x1080 over HDMI. So you might want to check yours before you buy an expensive Thunderbolt adapter.

My quite expensive Dell 1440 monitor for example has an HDMI 2.0 port which should handle 1440 no problem, but it seems that Dell decided that HDMI IN is only for up to 1080 sources.

 

[Boyd01]

I was under the impression that 1200x1920 was the largest screen you could drive from the 2012 mini HDMI port. That's what I'm using (10+ year old Apple Cinema Display) on my 2012 quad. I need the thunderbolt port for a Blackmagic video interface, so it's not available for a screen. If there's a way to go larger than 1200x1920 on HDMI I would love to hear about it.

 

[toke lahti]

I haven't heard of dp-splitter, but if it exist, I'd be interested. Is there any tb-dock in the market, that has 2 dp outs?

 

[Neodym]

You could get a monitor with a DP-out port, then connect the mini's Thunderbolt-port to DP-in on the first monitor and connect your second monitor to that DP-out on the first monitor. Mini should then be able to drive both displays daisy-chained.

Perhaps it'd also be possible to connect a converter (like e.g. DP-to-DVI or DP-to-HDMI) to the output on the first monitor and run the second monitor off that converter.

According to this support article from Elgato, usually you can only have HDMI _or_ other monitor connectors running at any given time, but not both together. Worth a read.