I already know about the TBD, I have five of them at my business. I am talking about those of us who cannot use the TBD because of it not being matte or because of using a better monitor than the TBD.
I currently have a professional grade HP IPS 27 panel which cost me over $1200. It is matte and can rotate, up down, etc.
I want to hook up the monitor, two external drives, and a usb hub all through one thunderbolt cable to my MBP.
This is what I came up with:
MBP through thunderbolt cable to Lacie Thunderbolt hub.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10574
Two external drives daisy chained together via firewire and hooked via esata to the Lacie hub. I already own the drives.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEQM0GBK/
The usb hub hooked via usb to esata cable to the other esata port on the Lacie hub.
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-...ATA-Adapter/dp/B004NNYIVM/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t
The Monitor hooked to the other thunderbolt port on the Lacie hub with one of these.
http://www.amazon.com/Kanex-iAdapt-MDPHDMIV2-HDMI-DisplayPort/dp/B0041NFIBS/ref=pd_cp_pc_1
And finally my speakers hooked to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wire...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335445708&sr=1-1
Or one of these attached to the usb hub:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-3-5m...3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335532753&sr=1-3
I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Just want to get some feedback on what to do or if anyone else has a better suggestion.
Until this is released:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/9/26...ress-dock-will-finally-go-on-sale-this-summer
I tried hedgedocks, garbage. And the other one I forget the name. Also garbage. The ports don't line up and one of them left a scratch on my MBP.
I currently have a professional grade HP IPS 27 panel which cost me over $1200. It is matte and can rotate, up down, etc.
I want to hook up the monitor, two external drives, and a usb hub all through one thunderbolt cable to my MBP.
This is what I came up with:
MBP through thunderbolt cable to Lacie Thunderbolt hub.
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10574
Two external drives daisy chained together via firewire and hooked via esata to the Lacie hub. I already own the drives.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other World Computing/MEQM0GBK/
The usb hub hooked via usb to esata cable to the other esata port on the Lacie hub.
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-...ATA-Adapter/dp/B004NNYIVM/ref=cm_cr_pr_sims_t
The Monitor hooked to the other thunderbolt port on the Lacie hub with one of these.
http://www.amazon.com/Kanex-iAdapt-MDPHDMIV2-HDMI-DisplayPort/dp/B0041NFIBS/ref=pd_cp_pc_1
And finally my speakers hooked to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Wire...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335445708&sr=1-1
Or one of these attached to the usb hub:
http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-3-5m...3?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1335532753&sr=1-3
I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Just want to get some feedback on what to do or if anyone else has a better suggestion.
Until this is released:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/9/26...ress-dock-will-finally-go-on-sale-this-summer
I tried hedgedocks, garbage. And the other one I forget the name. Also garbage. The ports don't line up and one of them left a scratch on my MBP.
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