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Do you know what sucks? DisplayLink. It's 2023, and the best we have for 3 monitors (MacBook Pro, and 2 external monitors) is basic screen scraping with softwar
by alfiedotwtf 3y ago
Do you know what sucks? DisplayLink. It's 2023, and the best we have for 3 monitors (MacBook Pro, and 2 external monitors) is basic screen scraping with software drivers if you want to use a single cable... otherwise you have to fall back to 2 cables (one for power + first monitor, and one HDMI).
The other reason why DisplayLink sucks is performance (or lack of) - what they don't tell you on the box. Video is like 16FPS on my third monitor!
- Vogtinator 3y agoThis is only because MacBooks do not support MST. On all of my non MacBook laptops I can use multiple monitors over USB-C.
- alfiedotwtf 3y agoAh damn. After your comment and reading around here, looks like it's going to be impossible to support this natively with a single cable. ... there goes my cable feng shui
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- feitingen 3y agoMacbooks (at least the intel ones) support MST with another OS like Linux. The missing support is in MacOS.
- NavinF 3y agoIf you have high end monitors (4K 120Hz or 6K 60Hz), each monitor will use up all the bandwidth so using one cable for multiple monitors is a nonstarter. IIRC there's a way around this limitation with DSC and thunderbolt docks, but it's not worth the effort.
- maria1998zx 3y ago[flagged]