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> * Just use TB monitors and daisy chaining works fine Not everybody has a zillion dollars to spend on expensive thunderbolt displays and they shouldn't have t
by bogantech 3y ago
> * Just use TB monitors and daisy chaining works fine
Not everybody has a zillion dollars to spend on expensive thunderbolt displays and they shouldn't have to when the Displayport standard (and other operating systems) support daisy chaining.
- Terretta 3y ago> when the Displayport standard (and other operating systems) support daisy chaining It doesn't support it, exactly, it supports a compressed image in each of the multiple streams transported, which can introduce quality problems when doing the production work people use higher end Macs for. "the combined data rate requirements of all the displays cannot exceed the limits of a single DP port" -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Transport_(MST) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multi-Stream_Trans... Arguably, compared to TB ports transmitting a full quality image to each screen, this could be "unexpected behavior".
- ttfkam 3y agoI'm not a gamer. I'd be fine with a single cable that served two 4K monitors at 30Hz from the Mac if it meant I never needed another dock ever again. That said, TB3/TB4 should be able to handle dual 4K at 60Hz from a single DisplayPort connection to the laptop.
- AdamN 3y agoI have dual 4k right now daisy chained from a Mac at 60Hz. Works totally fine and it was a 2019 MBP (and now a 2021 M1 Pro MBP). This is already a solved problem if you just stick with TB3+ gear.