Sounds reasonable. I'll look to contact them later today.
Okay, I was going to try and contact then via the web / email, but based on a what you say I'll give them a call later.
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Sounds reasonable. I'll look to contact them later today.
Okay, I was going to try and contact then via the web / email, but based on a what you say I'll give them a call later.
Interesting, I wonder if it can affect other apps as I've had issues with Thunderbird reportedly taking up over 186Gb of memory.
I do think the combination of DDPM and macOS does somehow affect other apps, but I think this is happening on the OS level somehow, e.g., something like OS cache data or storing images of the apps for when they are static, etc. I say this because I didn't have any single app that was obviously using way too much memory like you do (189 GB? Ouch!). Instead, all of my apps and open windows were each using somewhat more memory than normal according to Activity Monitor, and in the aggregate, this high memory use was causing my machine to hit swap a lot. Since uninstalling DDPM, this problem has completely gone away for me. So I suggest trying it for yourself to see if it also solves your memory problem.
Glad to hear you were already able to arrange getting a replacement from Dell!
Interesting, I'll try working for a while with DDPM disabled and see how it goes.
Indeed the monitor is out for delivery! Very impressive!
Indeed the monitor is out for delivery! Very impressive!
That's some serious memory leak there. Sounds like there's a major bug in that app.
Looks like it's a CalDAV bug which stems from Thunderbird itself.
Back on topic..... Does anyone else get the following message, and on checking there is no firmware or software updates. Really annoys me!
Where are you from? I tried repeatedly to buy a recently manufactured monitor and there was none. I payed for new and they sent me more than 1 year old monitors in clearly open boxes. That is in Romania. And it was 2250Euro
It's below €2200 in Europe now at Senetic shop. I will finally pull a trigger. What would be the best closest to the wall mount for this display?
My Dell just came from Senetic with M2T103 FW. Is there any change log?
On Dell website I can see the following Mac app released just 10 days ago: Dell Display and Peripheral Manager application. Is it worth downloading? Does it allow you to upgrade FW?
Has anyone with a 2020 Intel 13" MacBook Pro with 4 Thunderbolt ports actually gotten 6K resolution to work with the Dell U3224KB? If so, please post instructions in this thread.
According to Apple's tech sheet, this MacBook Pro should be able to drive its own built-in display simultaneously with one external monitor at 6016x3384 @ 60 Hz and 10-bit color.
But using macOS 14.5, I have not been able to get this 13" MacBook Pro to push any 6K resolution to the Dell monitor. I've tried using macOS's controls as well as installing BetterDisplay to fake the native panel resolution as well as disabling the MacBook Pro's built-in display. Nothing has worked so far. The best I've gotten so far is 5K output. I've not yet tried downgrading macOS.
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So far, Dell has kept firmware updates and Dell Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM) as totally separate things. If you want to update the firmware, you need to download Dell's firmware update installer for the version you want.
As for DDPM, v1.2 caused an insidious memory leak on my computer that took me a long time to figure out. Once I did, I uninstalled DDPM and haven't bothered trying new versions. DDPM has some useful features, but for me, the display by itself is good enough.
I've never installed DDPM. Haven't come across a reason to need it. And I don't particularly like installing third party software if I can avoid it. Like you said, the display runs fine with MacOS and is enhanced a bit by BD.