Since October, an ongoing thread in Apple’s Discussion Forums has drawn light to a potential hardware issue affecting Apple’s 27-inch Cinema Displays. The issue according to over 200 hundred responses thus pertains to audio — specifically USB audio, as newer Macs which send audio to the display via mini-Display Port aren’t affected.
At this point, it’s unclear whether the audio problems are caused by a software issue or hardware issue. For what it’s worth, Windows users have reported the same audio problems as well. But honestly, cross-platform audio problems can be caused by both software and hardware.
Either way, Apple is aware of the issue. Though as is common, they have yet to announce any official plans to recall the affected units. With that said, if users make a warranty call, Apple will replace the displays. But be forewarned, the same thread is claiming that even new replacement displays show the same audio problems.
At this point, you might as well hold on to your CInema Display because something isn’t right whether it be hardware or software. Hopefully Apple can get to the bottom of this quickly. There’s nothing like unwrapping a brand new piece of gadgetry only to find that it’s tainted.
So you want to play the latest and greatest flight/racing sim and just can’t make due with six paltry screens? Silly human. For those rare occurrence in life, PowerColor has your back, and has it with heaping amounts of overachievement.
Even we bloggers aren’t always gifted with the latest and greatest. Sometimes we have to buy it ourselves and wait just like everyone else before we can get our hands on the gadgets we so desperately crave. Gaming is a great way to relax the mind, unwind, and scrub off some stress. A big, beautiful display does wonders for us nerds and gamers a like. But looks aren’t everything. To a gamer, the more pixels they have means the more they can see. Until display port came along, hardware for connecting monitors and displays was rather large. HDMI lessened the footprint though we still had the problem of what do when multiple monitors were needed. Enter display port and ATI’s Eyefinity cards. The magic of Display Port is that its small and versatile. One look at the card above while slightly comical is a testament to how beneficial the new found size reduction actually is. Of course, being able to daisy chain Display Port connected monitors doesn’t hurt either. If I had my choice, I’d get a card capable of Display Port — with one million ports. Eh, ’tis fun to dream…
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- September 10, 2009 8:03 pm
Take any mind blowing, wallet raping, eye melting gaming rig or big screen you can think of and throw it out of your mind. AMD’s up and coming new hotness, graphics cards packin’ the DirectX11 moniker have some truly impressive muscle under the hood. How much muscle? Well, lets start with the fact that the new cards will support Display Port technology allowing you to daisy chain monitor after monitor via USB. Even better is that the new DX11 AMD cards also support running said daisy chained monitors as one monitor. And the icing on top you ask? The example shown above (more pictures inside) consists of 6-30″ Dell monitors corralled together and pumping out an astonishing 7680 x 4800 quintuple HD resolution. *Jaw drops…drool trickling out…speechless*. The possibilities are enough to make any geek lose their vocabulary for long spans of time. Gaming, PC use, TV, etc. The list of uses goes on.
The lucky folks of Maximum PC were able to physically see this visual monstrosity in the flesh pushing XPlane 9 and Far Cry 2 at full resolution at a respectable 12-20 frames per second. Another batch of lucky folk at HotHardware had the privilege of seeing an upcoming DX11 game, Dirt 2, demoed at 7680 x 3200 and noted “respectable frame rates” were displayed. Now, looking back at the earlier 12-20 fps figure isn’t very reassuring as 12-20 is hardly “acceptable” in the gaming world. Though at 7680 x 4800/3200, pretty much any other set up would choke, die, and subsequently explode.
As promised, a few more pics to gaze over just after the click.
- January 10, 2009 12:37 pm
Take a stroll to your local electronics store and look at the back of a high end monitor or TV. What do you see? You’ll see every type of connection known to man kind and multiple’s of some of them. One would ask, “How did we get to the point where we have so many connections?”. It’s manufacturers thinking that they have the next latest and greatest, or best solution for the industry. Naturally not everyone sees eye to eye and someone else or some other group release their own connection format and well there you go. Currently, HDMI and DVI are the two main contenders when it comes to connecting HD components together. Even though they look amazing, you still have to deal with the size of the connectors. The camp behind HDMI is looking towards Wireless HDMI which would get rid of the cords and clutter. Meanwhile another technology is coming into the foray going by the name Display Port (which was created especially for PC’s). From display port comes mini-display port, a variation of Display Port that has a smaller connector. Apple has thrown it’s support behind mini-display port as the next gen Hi-Def connection.
