2014 Mac Mini and 4K...

Spit · 3 Nov 2014 at 13:41

I was wanting to get a Mac Mini and a 28" 4k monitor. Looks like the Mac Mini can only do 30Hz. If I am only using it for Office activities such as email, documents, photo editing etc am I going to feel the pain at 30Hz? No games will be played. Was thinking of getting the mid tier model.

Anyone tried it out with Yosemite yet?

Yaayuh! · 3 Nov 2014 at 16:51

Why can't you get 60Hz over DP on the Mac Mini?

Edit: Doesn't support MST by the looks of it?

Spit · 3 Nov 2014 at 22:09

Yeah no MST. So annoying!

MagicBoy · 3 Nov 2014 at 22:15

It appears to be a limitation of the graphics on the Mini. 4K @ 60Hz needs an Iris Pro 5200 minimum, as used in the 15" rMBP.

Spit · 3 Nov 2014 at 22:40

A bit short sighted of Apple. My only option is to look at a PC

MagicBoy · 3 Nov 2014 at 22:49

The other options Apple offer are the brabantia Mac Pro and the 5k iMac.

The Iris 5100 doesn't have the memory bandwidth for 4K @ 60Hz. Anandtech indicated it needs the extra bandwidth that the eDRAM in Crystalwell (Iris Pro) provides. There's no Crystalwell without quad cores at this time. A Mac mini with a rMBP CPU would be ££££ niche product most likely.