ZOTAC Mini-Displayport to Dual HDMI Adapter Model ZT-MDP2HD

Pros: Bought this as a solution to power more than one monitor from a MacBookPro with a mini-display port. It works pretty much as expected, but treats the two monitors as a single 3840x1080 monitor. Windows 7 under bootcamp treats it the same way. I'm using dual Acer VH236H's and the hdmi audio passthrough in Lion 10.7.2 works. I didn't test the audio in windows. Moving a video playing in itunes from one monitor to the other didn't seem to create any stuttering.

Cons: Doesn't seem to work on my friend's 2011 MBP that has thunderbolt, but he's had trouble with other adapters as well so it could just be his hardware. It would be nice if it could recognize the monitors as separate output devices.

Overall Review: Based on the newegg review on the other Zotac model, I assume that other mini-displayport hardware will also treat this as one spanning monitor. The other reviewer was using NVIDIA hardware, though. Unfortunately, I don't have any ATI hardware at the moment, so I can't say if it would have different results.

Pros: It works on my Macbook pro 15' 2010 When you connect it, it treats both monitors as one giant monitor. So the resolution (in my case) shows 3360x1050, it sets it to the highest both monitors can do, so if one monitor can only do 1680x1050 and the other does 1920x1080 it'll use the 1680x1050 monitor resulting in the above resolution. Audio DOES pass thru....Both monitors.. you'll hear it from both monitors but if you use two different brands they'll likely be off resulting in a echo type effect. Not a biggie just disable audio from one of the monitors. OSX see's it as one device "DUAL HDMI" For display and audio under the system preference.

Cons: For people who rotate their monitors, when you rotate it, it's not side by side it's more like one monitor is on top of the other. So unless you rotate the monitor and put one on top of the other. (Remember, treats it as one giant display so 1050x3360)

Overall Review: If you don't have two of the same monitor with a thin to no bezel you'll have the resulting gap.. Not so bad if you just treat both displays as just two displays but if you use full screen the result is the video spread right smack in the middle of the two, just doesn't look pretty. Watch video to see what I mean. Otherwise great product. Using a Displaylink and this product I have 4 displays(3 monitors, 1 macbook pro) spread across my desk. Kind of wish you had the option to treat each display separately so it doesn't put the content between the gap when I use full screen so now my main monitor uses the USB display link and the other two more or less supplements it via this product so I can properly use full screen on the one display. (Anyone with a USB display link knows of the choppiness)

Pros: Works as described. Makes 2 monitors essentially one huge monitor. Sometimes there is problems with detecting the signal, but it might be my HDMI cables (I just ordered two to test this theory). When using parallels and doing a RDC to my work computer, if i use the command line option /span I can stretch my RDC over two monitors! Makes working from home amazing!

Cons: As I said, sometimes the signal goes in and out, but I'm not sure if that is a problem with the unit, my MBP, or the HDMI cables I am using.

Overall Review: You have to get used to the monitors acting like one big one instead of two small ones. For certain alert pop ups it is annoying, but that wouldn't stop me from buying it. Also, if you use something like the BetterTouchTool you can easy "full screen" your applications to one monitor or the other with a keystroke. If you are looking to get 2 additional outputs for your mac laptop, this is the way to go at the moment (unless you have the 2k to spring for 2 uber displays from apple)

Pros: see below

Cons: see below

Overall Review: Response to the MBP 13" question. The 13" will not support that resolution because of the graphics card itself. The maximum display is 2560x1600. More info can be found here: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html

Pros: If you want dual externals on a macbook pro, it's the only affordable game in town.

Cons: Does not work as advertised. Expected 3840 x 1080 spread across two hdmi displays. Under (bootcamp) XP, get only 2560 x 1080 and so things are somewhat distorted. I use this setup primarily to write code, so it's at least usable. Under Mac OS X 10.6.8 same thing. If I force it to 3840, external displays flicker on /off wildly. I know both my monitors support 1920. If I unplug either one of them I get a beautiful 1920 x 1080 image on the other. I'd love to know how the other reviewer got 3840 on his MBP. My system: 13" macbook from 2009.

Overall Review: Zotac support is a joke. The first guy who answered didn't realize until I reminded him that zotac produced such a product. I then tried chat with suppport. Got disconnected 4 times during the process. This guy at least new about the product. Confirmed the flickering under Mac OS.

Pros: None, since it does NOT work with any OS. They fail to mention this is a WINDOWS ONLY device.

Cons: Does not work in Ubuntu 11.04, even with the latest kernel. Ubuntu can see the monitor, but there is no video on the external screens. My two Dell 1905FP's stay in "no video signal" mode no matter what I do. Swapped hard drives for my stock Windows drive. Booted into Windows 7 and got a less then perfect situation. Power settings on for "do nothing" when you close the lid have no effect. Close the lid and the all screens go off and windows wont come back up. Screens looked good so long as you do not need any of the power/screen saver settings. (This is not an issue when this device is NOT hooked up.) I live in Linux and need it to work in Linux. :) Dell XPS 15 L502x i7 Quad 2.2 with 8 gigs of RAM.

Overall Review: I want to turn my display port into dual monitor port. I will grudgingly try one of the USB devices we have at work. If that does not work or sucks, I will have to try Mono's knock off of the apple display port adapter and see if it works any better. (Apples has known issues, but Mono's works perfectly - on Apples anyway.) As this does not work as advertised, I am going to RMA it and the two cables I bought with it.