It’s crazy to make the computer run the Radeon chip all the time on an external display, and even crazier to make it run all the time on the Radeon even in portable mode when in Boot Camp, when the integrated solution is perfectly capable of handling it. I’d also like if Apple would enable integrated graphics support on the Radeon MBPs with external display, and also with Boot Camp on built-in or external display. I couldn’t get clamshell mode to work at all in 10.6.7 with the graphics update, and while it works, sort of, in 10.6.6 and 10.6.8, there are lots of glitches with switching in and out of sleep or between single and dual display mode, and the occasional big crash associated with sleep. What have your experiences with connecting display via Thunderbolt been? Let us know in the comments below.Īpple has some serious problems with external display support on the 2011 Macbook Pro, at least the ones with the Radeon graphics.
Once reset, we were able to disconnect the MacBook Pro and reconnect it to the iMac. Then we let the video go through its connection there. The only solution that we’ve found for the moment is to hook the MacBook Pro up to a DisplayPort-equipped monitor (not an iMac). On our 15” 2011 MacBook Pro when using a 2010 iMac as a display, we found that the video connection became unstable, as in this video. One final “glitch” that’s popped up seems to be relegated to a particular set of circumstances.