MacBook – How to use 3 external monitors on 15″ late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina

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Several people have posted about how they use 3 external monitors with their MacBook Pro Retina. see:

  1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJhvyLB_Tbw

  2. Using 3 External monitors on my macbook pro, problem with DVD player

  3. How many monitors can the new retina MacBook Pro handle and at which pixels resolutions?

However, when I attempt to do this on my 15" late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina, I can only run 2. Either, 2 thunderbolt, or 1 thunderbolt and 1 HDMI. When I plug in all 3, only 2 of them work.

Apple tech says

Yep. You can only have 2 external monitors (unless you want to add a usb monitor).

Is there some trick I am missing? Some setting to tweak? I have 3 monitors just waiting for the solution. One of my monitors feels quite left out…

Best Answer

3 external displays DOES work.

I am on a Late 2013 MacBook Pro. I have 1 monitor on the HDMI port, 1 on a displayport to HDMI adapter, and one on an ACTIVE displayport to DVI adapter. I'm thinking that the trick here is to use an Active DVI adapter (mine is from Accell)

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