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Does anyone know if Thunderbolt will support multiple displays? If I hear a yes, I'm off to the Apple store.
by nicksergeant 16y ago
Does anyone know if Thunderbolt will support multiple displays? If I hear a yes, I'm off to the Apple store.
- robryan 16y agoYou'd think so, it did say something like up to 6 devices.
- nicksergeant 16y agoThat's what I'm thinking. As stated here: "...including your display. And with support for video and eight-channel audio, it’s easy to connect HDMI-compatible devices — like your TV and home stereo — using the HDMI adapter you already have. Current VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort adapters are also supported." -- So, one DP monitor, another with HDMI, another with DVI.
- weaksauce 16y agoIf this allows for daisy chaining monitors I might just get the newest one.
- honopu 16y agoI agree with you. It'd be great to be able to run 3 monitors from a closed mbp as a tower replacement. We'll have to see what kind of display adapters they come up with. I use a Diamond NV usb-2 video adapter and it works well for excel or mail, but if you are trying to actively use spaces it gets very laggy due to bandwidth constraints on usb2.0
- nicksergeant 16y agoYeah, I've got the Diamond BVU195, too. Slows everything down, especially spaces and other things that use Core animation.
- rufo 16y agoSupposedly DisplayPort is theoretically capable of at least one extra display, but Apple's tech specs page still says "an" external display, so I don't think they've implemented that yet. Still, I'm thinking there might be Thunderbolt-compatible external video cards. Since the wire protocol is PCI Express, it seems possible, and performance should be better than external USB video cards.