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I got a new MBP with touchbar for work several months ago, honestly at first i was overjoyed by the laptop. A single universal connector for everything? This is
by Azeralthefallen 9y ago
I got a new MBP with touchbar for work several months ago, honestly at first i was overjoyed by the laptop. A single universal connector for everything? This is amazing. The touchbar, will be awesome, i can replace those barely used function keys, with things of value.
However after several months:
- The touchbar is borderline useless. When i rapidly switch between various apps, sometimes the touchbar doesn't realize that hey i am in a different app.
- Numerous times i have had the touchbar freeze and become completely unresponsive. This is extremely frustrating, when i am trying to esc out of something, or i am trying to do some normal work. I also had a time where i unplugged my headphones, and itunes decided to play through speakers, and no amount of spamming mute on the touch bar would make itunes shut up.
However my biggest issue is with USB-C, which i thought would be the greatest thing since sliced bread.
- I have seen some TV's/projectors, where USB-C <-> HDMI just flat out does not want to work on these devices. Then i need to fumble and pray that i got lucky and packed my VGA cable. Even worse is when it does work, for whatever reason with the dongle i have seen some cases where i am locked to stupidly low resolutions like 1024x768 or lower. Yet my coworker can plug his mini DP into his older macbook and has 0 issues.
- Numerous times i have wanted to take control of a big screen and plug my laptop into it. Unfortunately i didn't bring the dongle. Instead i have been forced to do a hangouts and screenshare my desktop while a coworkers laptop is connected to the big screen.
- The lack of actual quality dongles, i have 2 highend 4k monitors, that do not support USB-C, they support display port. Unfortunately i have tried almost a dozen of these cables, and i cannot get a solid dongle that gives me proper 4k at 60hz like my coworkers older macbook laptops can do.
- mmcconnell1618 9y agoI bought the Apple dongle and couldn't get 4K @60hz but this cheap one from Amazon works perfectly with my Dell 4K monitor https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRU0O0T/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MRU0O0T/ref=oh_aui_deta...
- mthoms 9y agoThis has worked well for me - https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-DisplayPort-1-8m-Chromebook-Thunderbolt/dp/B01EXKDRAC https://www.amazon.com/Plugable-DisplayPort-1-8m-Chromebook-...
- imtringued 9y agoYou should try using a thunderbolt 3 adapter. One Thunderbolt 3 port supports can support up to two displayport 4k 60hz port. If the macbook pro has a dedicated TB3 controller per TB3 port then it could in theory support up to 8 4k 60hz displays. https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thunderbolt-Dual-DisplayPort-Adapter/dp/B072JK37LV?th=1 https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Thunderbolt-Dual-Display... I don't understand the USB-C hate. Especially complaints about applereplacing it in 5 years with a new port anyway. With displayport 1.4 over USB-C we will soon be able to drive 8k montors at 60hz with a single USB-C cable. USB-C is truly the "last port".