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Zadillo

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Jan 29, 2005
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My wife just got a new 13" touchbar MacBook Pro, and quickly realized she didn't have the necessary adapters to connect an external HP 23" display. Until we get one, I thought we might try using a Dell WD15 dock that I still had around from when I owned an XPS 15.

We have it connected, and it does seem to be supplying power at least (the Mac indicates its charging) - however, the display doesn't seem to work or be recognized as being connected - we've tried it both with an HDMI to HDMI cable to connect to the HDMI port on the WD15, and with an HDMI to Mini DisplayPort cable. Neither seems to work.

Any ideas? My general impression from reading about people using the WD15 dock is that it should work fine with the 2016 13" touchbar MBP - the main complaints I saw were more from people not being able to run at the highest resolutions, etc. But this is a 1080p monitor so probably not an issue.
 
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