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Looks slick, but I was really hoping for something more modern that could drive lots of displays. A limit of three is pretty mediocre; you can do that with oth
by apendleton 13y ago
Looks slick, but I was really hoping for something more modern that could drive lots of displays. A limit of three is pretty mediocre; you can do that with other already-available mac hardware. Oh, well.
- grecy 13y agoI expect it's 3 4K displays, likely more "normal" resolution displays.
- apendleton 13y agoI wouldn't be surprised if you turn out to be right, but wouldn't be surprised if you're wrong either.
- aroch 13y agoIt appears to be limited to 3 4K displays at a time with the built in graphics. Graphics is expandable, and presumably onboard can drive more than 3 non-4K displays (We don't know yet, so let's not jump to conclusions)
- masklinn 13y agoIt's 3 4k displays, not 3 displays. It's probably able to drive more "standard" displays, I expect each 4k saturates one of the controllers (which would be why it has 3 controllers on 6 ports)
- jfb 13y agoIt would be sufficient bandwidth for 12 1080p displays. That's not bad.
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- konstruktor 13y agoFor example via one of the many TB docking stations that have been promised for a long time.
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- masklinn 13y agoThe TB ecosystem will probably get a significant boost with the new pro, since its extensibility is basically USB3 or TB2, and mostly focused on TB2 (6 TB ports versus 4 USB3 ports I think?)
- asdfs 13y agoWouldn't you suffer from lower bandwidth than over PCIe, though?
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- whatevenisthis 13y ago^ A 16-lane PCI-E supports 31.51 GB/s of bandwidth. Thunderbolt 2 supports 20Gbps of bandwidth, or 2.5GB/s. So it's actually only 1/12th of the bandwidth.
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- apendleton 13y agoRight, I recognize that my use case is particular (driving a pile of projectors from one machine). We looked at adding additional video cards to, say, an iMac, but so far as I know, nobody is selling Thunderbolt graphics cards, and none of the Thunderbolt enclosures support adding graphics cards to OS X. Maybe that's changed, but I don't think so. Editing to add: and more broadly, part of the virtue of the old pro was that if you wanted to do something weird, you could open it up and shove in whatever you wanted, unlike every other product in the Apple line. It's a shame (though not unexpected) that this new iteration sacrifices as least some of that in the name of size, something I don't think most pro users really care about.
- aeontech 13y agoI think they were talking about maximum of three 4K displays; if you have lower-resolution displays, you're likely able to hook up more of them.