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Not dongle; docking station (old school ones with port on the bottom).

raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
That wasn’t a capability of the laptop. The docking station had its own dedicated graphics hardware that drove the extra monitors. Of course the lowest end Macs can do that. When we talk about how many monitors a certain laptop can drive, we mean plugging them in directly to the laptop in some combination of HDMI ports and USB C/Thunderbolt ports.
- bigyabai 11mo ago
  This is embarrassing, just stop. You can go look up the specs of any chip and how many discrete displays the iGPU supported instead of bickering about what is or isn't a laptop feature. Citing sources isn't illegal or passe. Here is the chip in my dogshit 2015 Ultrabook I still lug around, it very clearly states that the chip supports 3 displays regardless of how IO bandwidth is distributed on the mobo: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/88192/intel-core-i76600u-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/88192/i...
  - raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
    Exactly how did you attached three monitors to your laptop without a docking station? I bet you the docking station had displaylink based hardware/software like most of the Dell docking stations had You didn’t give any citations on your specific model of laptop or docking station. You just admitted that you used an old school docking station - those came with GPUs. And your citation said it wasn’t available in all configurations.
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    - CharlieDigital 11mo ago
      It wasn't DisplayLink. Docking station only added ports. https://www.ebay.com/itm/274734034597?itmmeta=01KAWK2DRBFS5H7EGPV4RXF5TE&hash=item3ff76caea5:g:W-sAAOSw6AFgXV7y&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwNHOg0D50eDiCdi%2FfP0r02tmLR33viQdRZoVpXua%2FFIDQBkOs%2F8xLLEFdcZjD6ZcffJXaHA93lJ49S7FGhvqcr3C5%2FEAueDpn6UZUfMhrQOyxXMK6a34bHi4o29ziT2KjE6Gbem3nMGV72i8PnlJitrtjD9NzdW4MZhEcr0dQ5CPiGYCs5vh43l%2FFPAZkO5IksPMlBlJ%2Fn89ZUqqJrdMa7M6Sg7dGgy5YqfDh9YlvrX%2BIJkRJWO%2BrARtA0uPdqL2ag%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6rciZPXZg https://www.ebay.com/itm/274734034597?itmmeta=01KAWK2DRBFS5H...
- CharlieDigital 11mo ago
  The docking station didn't have GPUs; they only had the extra ports.
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That wasn’t a capability of the laptop. The docking station had its own dedicated graphics hardware that drove the extra monitors. Of course the lowest end Macs can do that. When we talk about how many monitors a certain laptop can drive, we mean plugging them in directly to the laptop in some combination of HDMI ports and USB C/Thunderbolt ports.

bigyabai 11mo ago
This is embarrassing, just stop. You can go look up the specs of any chip and how many discrete displays the iGPU supported instead of bickering about what is or isn't a laptop feature. Citing sources isn't illegal or passe. Here is the chip in my dogshit 2015 Ultrabook I still lug around, it very clearly states that the chip supports 3 displays regardless of how IO bandwidth is distributed on the mobo: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/88192/intel-core-i76600u-processor-4m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz/specifications.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/88192/i...
- raw_anon_1111 11mo ago
  Exactly how did you attached three monitors to your laptop without a docking station? I bet you the docking station had displaylink based hardware/software like most of the Dell docking stations had You didn’t give any citations on your specific model of laptop or docking station. You just admitted that you used an old school docking station - those came with GPUs. And your citation said it wasn’t available in all configurations.
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  - CharlieDigital 11mo ago
    It wasn't DisplayLink. Docking station only added ports. https://www.ebay.com/itm/274734034597?itmmeta=01KAWK2DRBFS5H7EGPV4RXF5TE&hash=item3ff76caea5:g:W-sAAOSw6AFgXV7y&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwNHOg0D50eDiCdi%2FfP0r02tmLR33viQdRZoVpXua%2FFIDQBkOs%2F8xLLEFdcZjD6ZcffJXaHA93lJ49S7FGhvqcr3C5%2FEAueDpn6UZUfMhrQOyxXMK6a34bHi4o29ziT2KjE6Gbem3nMGV72i8PnlJitrtjD9NzdW4MZhEcr0dQ5CPiGYCs5vh43l%2FFPAZkO5IksPMlBlJ%2Fn89ZUqqJrdMa7M6Sg7dGgy5YqfDh9YlvrX%2BIJkRJWO%2BrARtA0uPdqL2ag%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6rciZPXZg https://www.ebay.com/itm/274734034597?itmmeta=01KAWK2DRBFS5H...
CharlieDigital 11mo ago
The docking station didn't have GPUs; they only had the extra ports.
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