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That is no surprise from a company like Dell. The cables included by Dell appear to be quite good and thicker than the average cable.

Hdmi connector for mac Manual Pdf#

Feel free to download the manual PDF from Dell's support site while you are waiting for your monitor to be delivered. The Dell owner's manual will recommend that you use the cables included with the monitor which is what I'm doing.

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I am using the DisplayPort connection with my Windows PC it has a GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER card and I want 165Hz w/adaptive sync for gaming. With a DisplayPort connection, it will run at 165Hz with adaptive sync (AMD FreeSync2 or Nvidia G-Sync Compatible). With an HDMI input, my monitor will run at 144Hz maximum.

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It's up to you to decide which device connects to which port on your new Dell monitor based on your own individual usage case.įor me, nothing I do on my Mac mini merits the best monitor connection (i.e., the DisplayPort). If I turn on my eGPU, it feeds HDMI to the second HDMI port on the monitor. All of the games that I can run on the mini run better on the Windows PC. I'm okay with that since I don't do any gaming with my Mac mini anyhow. My Mac mini's HDMI port is connected directly to the monitor's first HDMI port and I am getting the slightly slower 144Hz.

I am using the DisplayPort connection with my Windows PC I want 165Hz w/adaptive sync for gaming. custom built Windows PC with Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER graphics card.refresh 165Hz), 1x DisplayPort 1.4 connector, 2x HDMI 2.0 connectors Sonnet eGFX Breakaway Box + Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 graphics card.A different monitor might give different results. If it's a 4K 60Hz UHD monitor it should run fine. I don't think nuking the site from orbit is warranted, it's almost certainly it was just a glitch - even Macs get them occasionally.You should not lose resolution but you may not get peak refresh rates with an HDMI-to-HDMI connection depending on the resolution and refresh frequency specifications of your new monitor. However, the chances of the display adapter being malicious is extremely low - there aren't any known instances of that exploit being used in the wild.

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Unplugging the device while you are typing in your password isn't going to protect you if it is malicious because a compromise would involve installing memory resident software on your system to do whatever the attacker intends, once the device delivers its payload and infects your system the damage is done. Your older Mac should have thunderbolt 2 so would be vulnerable until Apple develops a fix. The article is about Thunderclap, which is a vulnerability in how MacOS treats thunderbolt devices, and impacts thunderbolt 2 as well as thunderbolt 3. An attacker could embed an exploit into a device like display adapter to compromise vulnerable systems when it is plugged in. The security risk of any physical port is that there is an exploitable vulnerability that would allow an attacker to compromise the hardware, firmware of OS. Ultra paranoid to me means you destroy your computer, put on a tinfoil hat and dig a bunker, so I'm going to interpret that as "sensible precautions"

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Would the ultra-paranoid response be to do a clean install and change any password that I've since typed on the keyboard since? (I don't use stored passwords) Considering that I'm using a vintage OS I wouldn't mind doing one anyway.īeing slightly nervous, I pulled out the connector when typing passwords during the session, and haven't used the connector since.

What are the potential security risks here?.

All Apple models are affected (except for the 12-inch MacBook), including post-2016 models running Thunderbolt 3 over USB-C as well as older ones using a Mini DisplayPort. However, because Thunderbolt has been standard on Macs since 2011 and only started appearing on Windows and Linux systems more recently, this platform is most at risk. Googling and reading this tells me that the Thunderbolt is indeed USB-like and a security issue, worse for some MacBooks than others, though I don't exactly understand what this is saying: My computer immediately froze with a crazy interleaved display (looked like corrupted video memory), and I had to restart it.Ĭomputer is a 2012 MacBook Air, still running El Capitan 10.11.6 I recently used a Thunderbolt to HDMI connector (ADAM 4K2K) casually given by a colleague who then left the country, misguidedly thinking "oh, it's a display adapter, not a USB, so it probably isn't risky".