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Apple sells a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter that looks identical to the mini-displayport connector on my previous laptop but is only thunderbolt, no video mode

Apple sells a USB-C to Thunderbolt 2 adapter that looks identical to the mini-displayport connector on my previous laptop but is only thunderbolt, no video modes supported. A lot of unhappy reviews on that one. I made that same mistake, but it's also broken the other way around.. turns out you can't use a 2015 iMac as a display using DisplayPort, it has to be a Thunderbolt :-D So now I have two connectors with the same socket but two totally different uses.

Bud 9y ago
That's not broken. The iMac is not a general-purpose display. It's a computer. If you plug a Dell laptop into a Mac, would you expect to automatically get to use the Dell's monitor as a secondary Mac display?
- wlesieutre 9y ago
  iMacs did support this, called Target Display Mode. Similar to how macs can be mounted as external hard drives in Target Disk Mode. 2009 and 2010 models supported vanilla DisplayPort, 2011 to 2014 cut that for Thunderbolt only. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592
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