![]() This past week I purchased a Seiki for my MacBook Pro Retina. Just for fun I connected the monitor to my 2012 MacBook Air and to my surprise found out that the MBA supports an external resolution of 3840x2160. I was amazed ! All the documentation that I've seen only says it only supports 2560x1440 externally (like Apple's website). It was so awesome that an early 2012 Macbook Air supports 4k resolutions. Apple has yet again surpassed my expectations. One additional note, the refresh rate is capped at 30hz so it isn't might meant for gaming. But if you were wondering about videos, youtube and 1080 video looks great and there were no stuttering during playback. Hope this info helps out the people that are thinking about moving to 4k. I wanted to share this info because the impression I got from the web was that you needed a Macbook Pro Retina to run at 4k, which isn't true. A MacBook Air, the correct cable and a 4k monitor is all that is needed to run at 3840x2160.įor those of you that found this thread trying to figure if this works with a macbook air (or any sort of non-retina macbook), this dude is right, it works. At least for but from what I can tell, my macbook air is a little newer. I had to download and install SwitchResX: I tried a bunch of different things to get this to work and ultimately it did. ![]() Once installed, open up the interface, click on Custom Resolutions. Once there, add a Custom entry with 3840 x 2160 resolution. It brought my pixel clock down to 147 or so and the Scan Rate to 16 Hz. The picture is good but the movements are lagging and the video is a little behind. I'm using this monitor to surf the internet and do some development. Works for me.I’ve been helping a graphic designer who was struggling with this “issue”. ![]() I don’t think we can blame Adobe here or even Apple OS X, it is more a design weirdness Apple decided to make a screen with high density of pixel per inch, but still below HiDPI screen (well known as Retina). So, here’s the holly grail, please be aware of some limitation: I was unlucky to find any tricks fix InDesign UI, and the only way to get ID toolbars bigger would be to tune down your screen resolution, making everything just ugly, not an option when you’re *working* with ID. On non retina displays like Apple 27″ monitor, we can’t any HiDPI option. Open Terminal app and paste the following command, type your password: There’s one trick you might use to enable HiDPI. Sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/ DisplayResolutionEnabled -bool trueĪnd log-out from your session. In the System Preference Display option, you’ll see an new resolution, half of your screen resolution. You might try it, but you’ll see everything twice bigger and honestly, it is not very usable. We’re close, let’s know try to setup a non-2X retina configuration. You’ll need to get a shareware named SwitchResX. Maybe other can to the same, but I’ll describe how I did it with this one (€ 14 – still cheaper than buying a different screen – and most of you like you screen aren’t you?). Once you installed the tool, you’ll need to pick your Thunderbolt Display, and select the + button and add a custom scaled resolution of 3840 x 2160. This is a virtual resolution that will allow the system to create an acceptable HiDPI profile. By default, the 13-Inch and 15-Inch Retina Display MacBook Pro models run 'pixel doubled' at 1280x8x900, respectively. Save, reboot and you should have a nice 1920 x 1080 HiDPI profile availabe either in the SwitchResX menu bar. Here’s a screenshot (done with this new setting activated): Each just has four times the detail of a 'traditional' display - which looks quite attractive, but some users no doubt would like to see more at one time than fits on the screen at this resolution. SwitchResX is known to work up to Yosemite, if you already installed El Capitan, you might read the latest blog post of SwitchResX author. Kinda scary, probably worth postpone the upgrade, which is always a good thing with Adobe software.
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