Hello,
I have a Sony 21" CRT monitor with 2 VGA port inputs. For scientific research purposes, I need to drive it at relatively high resolution (1280 x 960) and 120Hz.
We usually use a 2007 MBP, which has a DVI port that fits the bill nicely. Unfortunately, that machine is dead.
Our new MBP has a thunderbolt / mini-display port, which doesn't have the bandwidth to do this -- it maxes out at 100 Hz. The last 20 hz is pretty critical for proper timing of our experiments.
So two questions
(1) Can I use the HDMI port on the MBP to up the bandwidth? Would need a HDMI-VGA convertor that doesn't have bandwidth issues.
(2) Since these new MBPs have thunderbolt, are there thunderbolt-VGA convertors that have higher bandwidth than the existing mini-display-port to VGA dongles?
Thanks!
I have a Sony 21" CRT monitor with 2 VGA port inputs. For scientific research purposes, I need to drive it at relatively high resolution (1280 x 960) and 120Hz.
We usually use a 2007 MBP, which has a DVI port that fits the bill nicely. Unfortunately, that machine is dead.
Our new MBP has a thunderbolt / mini-display port, which doesn't have the bandwidth to do this -- it maxes out at 100 Hz. The last 20 hz is pretty critical for proper timing of our experiments.
So two questions
(1) Can I use the HDMI port on the MBP to up the bandwidth? Would need a HDMI-VGA convertor that doesn't have bandwidth issues.
(2) Since these new MBPs have thunderbolt, are there thunderbolt-VGA convertors that have higher bandwidth than the existing mini-display-port to VGA dongles?
Thanks!
