A friend of mine bought one last year. He runs two monitors on his mini, one via the mini display port (Thunderbolt), with an adaptor to HDMI, and one directly via the HDMI port.
Be aware there is no traditional monitor connector on the Mac mini, though there are various adaptors to let you connect DVI and VGA if required. Personally, I would stick with the HDMI route, so any recent LCD panel monitor - or any HD-ready TV with HDMI input - from the big makers will be perfectly usable.
Depending on what your priorities are (price, image quality, color accuracy etc.) Eizo http://www.eizo.com/global/ has some impressive products, though they definitely aren’t cheap.
Thank you for your thoughts. The Yamakasi Catleap you can get from Amazon for £344.95 now, so may be worth looking at.
The screen I’m currently using attached to my MacBook Pro via a DVI to HDMI adaptor is a Samsung SyncMaster SA350. It has LED backlighting, a rather tacky plastic bezel, and isn’t really adjustable without a shelf to stand it on. It’s 21in diagonal, but it gives full HD. I think I paid around £120 at a local branch of a computer and white goods emporium.
It’s plenty big enough for me, but they make them bigger if you need the real estate.
Cheers
Heather
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I’ve heard really good things about Dell for big/fast/cheap. I don’t have any specs or model numbers, though. I generally buy Apple monitors and run them into the ground (until the ghosting gets too awful). Considering I bought two 17" flat panels when I started my consultancy 10 years ago, and a pair of 20" panels about 3 years ago, I’ve gotten my money’s worth.
Walter
On Dec 19, 2012, at 8:28 AM, Heather Kavanagh wrote:
On 19 Dec 2012, at 11:26, Gray Owl wrote:
Thank you for your thoughts. The Yamakasi Catleap you can get from Amazon for £344.95 now, so may be worth looking at.
The screen I’m currently using attached to my MacBook Pro via a DVI to HDMI adaptor is a Samsung SyncMaster SA350. It has LED backlighting, a rather tacky plastic bezel, and isn’t really adjustable without a shelf to stand it on. It’s 21in diagonal, but it gives full HD. I think I paid around £120 at a local branch of a computer and white goods emporium.
It’s plenty big enough for me, but they make them bigger if you need the real estate.
Cheers
Heather
Imagic Design * Good Design - No Compromise
email@hidden http://www.imagic-design.co.uk
Twitter @Imagic-Design
T: 01634 864017