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Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by manyxcxi »

__david__ wrote: post #140
manyxcxi wrote: post #88

I've got a Cinema Display, though it's been relegated to my second monitor it is pretty nice to have all my cables routed cleanly to that and just plug in the MagSafe/T2 connection and my MiniDP connection from my big monitor every morning and just be done with it. Some cursory searches suggest I'll be anywhere from $80-150 in getting a Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 adapter. This, just to get back to even after an u…

> Some cursory searches suggest I'll be anywhere from $80-150 in getting a Thunderbolt 3 -> Thunderbolt 2 adapter. It's $49 on Apple's store: http://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-us...

Well I guess I should've looked straight at the source first!

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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Post by honkhonkpants »

honkhonkpants wrote: post #166
revelation wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

USB-C isn't some new fancy connector technology that will fully mature in 2020, it's just USB3 + power + pass-through for a bunch of other connectors. It's not a new connector, it's a connector transformer rather. Only that doesn't actually work in practice, you can't connect four HDMI USB-C adapter to the four USB-C ports of the MBP and expect them all to work. Similarly, I can't imagine you can connect four power s…

Why can't I do that? GPU can't drive five displays?

Answering my own question: this late-2016 MacBook Pro does support four external monitors using its four USB-C ports.

Re: Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

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franciscop wrote: post #78

It's funny how Americans (USA) use the freedom as in this situation "they are necessary connections that offer you freedom" but don't even realize that's the same " freedom " they are stuck in the Imperial system; lack of standardization. I for once welcome these changes; if companies were not brave enough to let go of old ports to standarize the USB we'd be stuck in the old days with dozens of dongles. At the speed…

Wow, totally wrong article and I didn't even realize until now; I don't work for Tech Crunch, my bad. This is my article: https://medium.com/@fpresencia/the-usb-type-c-revolution-66d...
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