Connecting 2 4K USB-C monitors to MacBook Pro 16”

[Bearygoodfries1]

Hey everyone!

I bought the LG 27UK850 monitor and I would love to get another one.

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You can’t daisy chain these apparently. I know they only have 1 USB-C port, but I guess I figured I could somehow use the other ports to do it.

I digress.

Anyway, if I want a second monitor, I would just plug the second monitor into one of the available USB-C ports on my MacBook Pro, right?

That simple?

 

[Erehy Dobon]

I know it's totally out of fashion of fashion in 2020 but Internet search engines can often answer these types of inquiries.

Entering the parameters 'macbook pro 16" multiple monitors' in the DuckDuckGo search engine results in the following web page as the number one result:

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support

support.apple.com

conveniently the official support document from Apple about said topic.

Ten years ago the acronym STFW meant something. Those days are OVER. I'd blame coronavirus for the widespread brain damage but this has been going on for several years.



(sigh)

 

[joevt]

Daisy chain in macOS requires the first display to be a Thunderbolt display. USB-C is not always Thunderbolt. For example, the new 24 inch LG ULtraFine 4K supports both USB-C and Thunderbolt, so if you connect it to a Thunderbolt port then you can connect another Thunderbolt or USB-C display to the downstream Thunderbolt port of the 24 inch LG UltraFine 4K display.

If you want to connect two displays to a single Thunderbolt port of your computer, then you can use a Thunderbolt 3 dock or a Thunderbolt 3 to dual DisplayPort adapter.

 

[Bearygoodfries1]

I know it's totally out of fashion of fashion in 2020 but Internet search engines can often answer these types of inquiries.

Entering the parameters 'macbook pro 16" multiple monitors' in the DuckDuckGo search engine results in the following web page as the number one result:

MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support

support.apple.com

conveniently the official support document from Apple about said topic.

Ten years ago the acronym STFW meant something. Those days are OVER. I'd blame coronavirus for the widespread brain damage but this has been going on for several years.



(sigh)

I did search, and came across the page you linked.

It didn’t answer my question.

Hence, why I asked here.
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Daisy chain in macOS requires the first display to be a Thunderbolt display. USB-C is not always Thunderbolt. For example, the new 24 inch LG ULtraFine 4K supports both USB-C and Thunderbolt, so if you connect it to a Thunderbolt port then you can connect another Thunderbolt or USB-C display to the downstream Thunderbolt port of the 24 inch LG UltraFine 4K display.

If you want to connect two displays to a single Thunderbolt port of your computer, then you can use a Thunderbolt 3 dock or a Thunderbolt 3 to dual DisplayPort adapter.

Thanks for helping me out.

THIS did answer my question.

 

[Erehy Dobon]

I did search, and came across the page you linked.

It didn’t answer my question.

Hence, why I asked here.

It is authoritatively answered in the section "Connect to different Thunderbolt 3 busses".

While playing human Internet search engine there is nothing I can do about reading comprehension.

Best of luck. I hereby bow out of further discussion on this topic.

 

[joevt]

It is authoritatively answered in the section "Connect to different Thunderbolt 3 busses".

That section says you can connect two displays to a Thunderbolt bus but doesn't explain all the ways that can be done (one display per Thunderbolt port or two displays on a single Thunderbolt port using a dock or adapter or multiple docks - a Thunderbolt display is like a dock and if it has a second Thunderbolt port then it can accept another display or dock). A different search is required for that information.