Apple Display Tethering

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ToddW2

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Does anyone know if you can tether 1 Thunderbolt enabled new Apple Display to an Old Non-Thunderbolt Apple Display ?

TB-->Non

Seems like it should be doable if apple made it backwards compatible with the old cords, right :confused: You just can't go from Old->new to tether..

or did they change it up completely ???
 
Tethering monitors? I'm not sure I understand. What are you trying to do? What hardware do you have?
 
I'm not sure about that but I think it should work.

TB output -> TB ACD -> non-TB ACD.
 
Morazl said:
Yep, done posting after that trollish reply. Bye.
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He isn't talking about phones, he's talking about literally using a cable to do Thunderbolt pass-through, which is a new feature built into the new 27" Thunderbolt displays. I saw the thread earlier, but I am unsure of the answer, although I have seen the question elsewhere.

I assume the op is asking this question in order to save a few hundred by only having to buy 1 Thunderbolt display and 1 Displayport display.
 
UnknownSouljer said:
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He isn't talking about phones, he's talking about literally using a cable to do Thunderbolt pass-through, which is a new feature built into the new 27" Thunderbolt displays. I saw the thread earlier, but I am unsure of the answer, although I have seen the question elsewhere.

I assume the op is asking this question in order to save a few hundred by only having to buy 1 Thunderbolt display and 1 Displayport display.
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Yes, this.

Can you go from a Thunderbolt Mac to a Tunderbolt ACD, and then to a Displayport ACD.

Thunderbolt will do it for sure with two TB displays, but there's no definitive answer on hanging a DP ACD off a TB ACD.
 
But not with the new Macbook Air, which has a cut down TB controller that only supports 1 display.
 
thedigeffect said:
But not with the new Macbook Air, which has a cut down TB controller that only supports 1 display.
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It's not the Thunderbolt chip's fault. The integrated GPU in the Core i5 / i7s is not good enough to drive 3 displays.
 
Zinn said:
It's not the Thunderbolt chip's fault. The integrated GPU in the Core i5 / i7s is not good enough to drive 3 displays.
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Its sounds like both. The new smaller and cheaper Thunderbolt chip has half the channels and Intel 3000 IGP only supports 2 displays anyway.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4542/eagle-ridge-the-cheaper-optionally-smaller-thunderbolt-controller

However what if you wanted 2 externals displays and have the laptop's display off? It would be a total of 2 displays which the IGP should be able to handle.
With the MBA it doesn't sound like this would work, but what about the MBP13. The MBP13 has the 2 display limited Intel IGP, but the full version of the Thunderbolt chip.
 
I think you mean Daisy Chain, not Tether.

No one knows for certain if you can Daisy Chain from TB Display->DP display.

But it seems like there would be a fair chance unless the output on the iMac/mini/laptops are non standard TB that are special versions with additional graphics support or if the all TB in the system are equivalent.
 
Snowdog said:
I think you mean Daisy Chain, not Tether.

No one knows for certain if you can Daisy Chain from TB Display->DP display.

But it seems like there would be a fair chance unless the output on the iMac/mini/laptops are non standard TB that are special versions with additional graphics support or if the all TB in the system are equivalent.
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Yeah, Daisy Chain :)

TB Display -> Non-TB Display

Would love to know that when anyone finds out - determines if I need to sell one and get a new one or not :D :D
 
Your answer is no daisy chaining a DP display onto a TB display.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4885
"Mini DisplayPort displays will not light up if connected to the Thunderbolt port on an Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch)."
 
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BUT, it will work if you have a thunderbolt device (like a disk drive) in between the displays. Lord only knows why.

edit: link
 
Apple must have left that bit of electronics out of the TB Display.

Pretty shitty IMO.
 
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