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More accurate to say it’s a dock than a hub, but I’m using a Dell 2427DEB monitor[0] with my Dell work notebook and a second monitor daisy chained from it on th

More accurate to say it’s a dock than a hub, but I’m using a Dell 2427DEB monitor[0] with my Dell work notebook and a second monitor daisy chained from it on the DP out port. My work laptop has just a single USB-C cable plugged into the monitor for everything making it super trivial to plug it back in when I use it away from my desk (which I do regularly). My personal desktop has a single DP and also a USB A to B cable. The monitor has KVM capability so I can super conveniently switch between them even with the two screens. Cables are completely minimized with this set up, I’m very happy. The only thing that’s unfortunate is that I occasionally work on a MacBook Pro 16” M4 and it can’t drive the second monitor over the same USB-C cable as Apple CBA to have support for DP MST on even their premium priced hardware. So I have to also plug in an HDMI cable to the second monitor. Also unfortunate with the MacBook Pro is that macOS UI scaling doesn’t allow ratios like 125% meaning the UI elements aren’t quite at my preferred size. My Windows 11 handles this perfectly. [0] https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-pro-27-plus-video-conferencing-monitor-p2724deb/apd/210-bgmf/monitors-monitor-accessories https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-pro-27-plus-video-confe...

yonatan8070 1y ago
When I was tasked with acquiring desk setups for our whole company (small, new startup) back when everyone was using just whatever I decided to go with a really similar setup, Dell P2425HE monitor with integrated USB-C hub, and a Dell P2425H daisy chained from it. I'm really glad we went with that, so far they've been great (for software devs, no color sensitive stuff).
lloeki 1y ago
> macOS UI scaling doesn’t allow ratios like 125% meaning the UI elements aren’t quite at my preferred size Try BetterDisplay, and enable "Flexible Scaling" (a per-display setting). Bonus: enable "UI Scale Matching" and output will be same physical size across all displays (as long as they report proper DPI, but I think you can hack that as well right there)
- jonathanlydall 1y ago
  Thanks, may give that a try.
FireBeyond 1y ago
> Apple CBA to have support for DP MST They do this for MBP market segmentation now, but really, this started with the ProDisplay XDR. At the time, people wondered about how they were able to drive the 6K 10 bit display, as the math didn't fit the spec. People like me found out. Because they completely fucked with DP1.4 specs to make it happen with Big Sur. In Catalina, my Intel Mac Pro happily drove 2 4K HDR monitors at 144 Hz. Upgrade to Big Sur, not any more. 95Hz for 4K SDR, 60Hz for 4K HDR. Not the cables, not the monitors. Indeed, "downgrading" the monitors advertised support to DP 1.2 gave better options, 120Hz SDR, 75Hz HDR. Hundreds of reports, different card/cable/monitor combos. Was at least still the case as of Ventura, which makes sense, because it wasn't a bug, it was just an Apple style fuck you to anyone not fully invested in "all Apple, all the time". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437219

yonatan8070 1y ago

When I was tasked with acquiring desk setups for our whole company (small, new startup) back when everyone was using just whatever I decided to go with a really similar setup, Dell P2425HE monitor with integrated USB-C hub, and a Dell P2425H daisy chained from it. I'm really glad we went with that, so far they've been great (for software devs, no color sensitive stuff).

lloeki 1y ago

> macOS UI scaling doesn’t allow ratios like 125% meaning the UI elements aren’t quite at my preferred size Try BetterDisplay, and enable "Flexible Scaling" (a per-display setting). Bonus: enable "UI Scale Matching" and output will be same physical size across all displays (as long as they report proper DPI, but I think you can hack that as well right there)

jonathanlydall 1y ago
Thanks, may give that a try.

FireBeyond 1y ago

> Apple CBA to have support for DP MST They do this for MBP market segmentation now, but really, this started with the ProDisplay XDR. At the time, people wondered about how they were able to drive the 6K 10 bit display, as the math didn't fit the spec. People like me found out. Because they completely fucked with DP1.4 specs to make it happen with Big Sur. In Catalina, my Intel Mac Pro happily drove 2 4K HDR monitors at 144 Hz. Upgrade to Big Sur, not any more. 95Hz for 4K SDR, 60Hz for 4K HDR. Not the cables, not the monitors. Indeed, "downgrading" the monitors advertised support to DP 1.2 gave better options, 120Hz SDR, 75Hz HDR. Hundreds of reports, different card/cable/monitor combos. Was at least still the case as of Ventura, which makes sense, because it wasn't a bug, it was just an Apple style fuck you to anyone not fully invested in "all Apple, all the time". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437219 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25437219