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Mufasa804

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Mar 6, 2009
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Greetings!

I just ordered a 21.5" iMac from the Apple Store and was wondering what cable(s) and adapter I would need in order to hook it up to two displays. The iMac has two Thunderbolt ports but do both support external monitors via the Mini Display Port to DVI dongles?

Can I do one dongle to DVI, then use a DVI-dualDVI adapter so I can still have the second thunderbolt port open?

Sorry if these are basic questions, but I couldn't find anything else online for the 21.5". Only the 27".
 
Perhaps it would better to connect a hard drive, or a ePCI card, or whatever in between the computer and the DVI monitor.

Daisy chaining

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(I would be remiss in not revealing the context of the image, though. But that's another subject entirely.

Adventures with Daisy in Thunderbolt-DMA-land: Hacking Macs through the Thunderbolt interface
 
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