New Mac Mini - Dual Displays

[Croatian]

I'm Looking at getting a new Mac Mini

It's says it supports mini display port and mini dvi, so ideally i could connect two displays to the unit. I wanna get another Apple LED display as i currently have one for my MacBook pro.

Is there anyway i can connect two LED ACDs to a mac mini. I can't seem to find a adaptor that will let me connect mini display port from ACD to mini dvi port on back of the Mac Mini.

 

[MacMini2009]

No

 

[Croatian]

Now that sucks

 

[Flybye]

If you are not going to be doing any motion video, another option would be to go with a USB video card like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._re=dvi_video_card_usb-_-12-200-203-_-Product

And I'd recommend going to the manufacturer's web site for stats on them. Even though many of them do not say they are Mac compatible on a reseller's site, many of them actually are.

 

[leighonigar]

It seems you can do dual display http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1926673&start=15&tstart=90 I'm not sure about the adaptor, but you could get a different kind of screen, if you could stomach the aesthetics.

 

[cainnovacaine]

It's because the ACD requires use of both the mini display and mini dvi, if you go with 3rd party monitors (dell, acer, viewsonic, samsung) you can use 2 1080p monitors. The ACD has a pretty high screen resolution, so that might be your bottleneck

 

[iAlex]

I'm running dual Dell 1905's with my mac mini, there're a nice S-IPS paneled 19" LCD. I like the screen height of the 19's, same as the Dell 24" I feel I get a better screen view while looking at web pages and documents then the smaller widescreen 20's.... the screens are too short (height). Perhaps, get a couple of the dell 2209WA's and turn them vertically ( long way up & down) this might be a hot set up.

 

[Ptyger]

It's because the ACD requires use of both the mini display and mini dvi, if you go with 3rd party monitors (dell, acer, viewsonic, samsung) you can use 2 1080p monitors. The ACD has a pretty high screen resolution, so that might be your bottleneck

Wait, what? The 24" LED Cinema Display uses only mini displayport, not both. In fact, that was quite a bone of contention when the display was first released, because it would work ONLY with the new unibody line and not previous products that used regular or mini DVI.