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wilkesalex · 11-07-2012, 11:22 PM

Hi there,

Mountain Lion 10.8.2
Mid 2009 Macbook Pro 8Gb 2.53 Core2Duo
9400M-256MB
VERTEX4-256GB
15" macbook 1440x900
24" plugged into mini displayport 1920x1080
27" plugged in usb hdmi 1920x1080

I got http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matters-Plated-Premium-Adapter/..... this today, it didn't seem to work without the driver...
so I downloaded the latest Mac driver

I saw the warning for Mountain Lion, awesome

Installed driver, rebooted, had to unplug and plug back in but it worked. Showed up in Display Prefs as the identified (with model info etc) 3rd monitor, works great with Arrangement tab, and made the usb 27" my main monitor by moving the top taskbar over

However,

laggy performance on usb monitor (just about bareable, but really noticeable when u have two great performance monitors either side)
sometimes mouse freezes on the screen, but I can still move it about (like taking a snapshot of just the pointer)
also I have to sometimes make something on the designated screen happen for it to "activate" , e.g. drag a window onto it, after logging in. (As it's set as my main monitor, I cant see the login screen too) - but its a BenQ monitor that does take pretty long to start up so will confirm in more tests tomorrow
but no lag on other screens
and no crashing programs (had ubuntu VM open, chrome, skype, chrome, preview, itunes, mail)

I dunno how many days I've got till I can return it, which i will do, as i didn't buy a decent second monitor for it to lag, but I hope either Apple or the developers make it work with all the known issues, and I guess general performance, before then! You can't even get Lion in the app store, which I would do, you know, just to make use of my second monitor or something stupid, so you gotta ring apple to get a special code, great, cheers for not mentioning that on your page

Save all of us a phone call, ring one of your apple cronies and work together to update the driver before they update OSX ? how do we even know that 10.8.3 will fix it? how do YOU even know that 10.8.3 will fix it? what if apple doesnt care about your hardware? i know who does care. the people buying it.

11-07-2012, 11:22 PM	#75
wilkesalex Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 1	Hi there, Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Mid 2009 Macbook Pro 8Gb 2.53 Core2Duo 9400M-256MB VERTEX4-256GB 15" macbook 1440x900 24" plugged into mini displayport 1920x1080 27" plugged in usb hdmi 1920x1080 I got http://www.amazon.co.uk/Cable-Matters-Plated-Premium-Adapter/..... this today, it didn't seem to work without the driver... so I downloaded the latest Mac driver I saw the warning for Mountain Lion, awesome Installed driver, rebooted, had to unplug and plug back in but it worked. Showed up in Display Prefs as the identified (with model info etc) 3rd monitor, works great with Arrangement tab, and made the usb 27" my main monitor by moving the top taskbar over However, laggy performance on usb monitor (just about bareable, but really noticeable when u have two great performance monitors either side) sometimes mouse freezes on the screen, but I can still move it about (like taking a snapshot of just the pointer) also I have to sometimes make something on the designated screen happen for it to "activate" , e.g. drag a window onto it, after logging in. (As it's set as my main monitor, I cant see the login screen too) - but its a BenQ monitor that does take pretty long to start up so will confirm in more tests tomorrow but no lag on other screens and no crashing programs (had ubuntu VM open, chrome, skype, chrome, preview, itunes, mail) I dunno how many days I've got till I can return it, which i will do, as i didn't buy a decent second monitor for it to lag, but I hope either Apple or the developers make it work with all the known issues, and I guess general performance, before then! You can't even get Lion in the app store, which I would do, you know, just to make use of my second monitor or something stupid, so you gotta ring apple to get a special code, great, cheers for not mentioning that on your page Save all of us a phone call, ring one of your apple cronies and work together to update the driver before they update OSX ? how do we even know that 10.8.3 will fix it? how do YOU even know that 10.8.3 will fix it? what if apple doesnt care about your hardware? i know who does care. the people buying it.