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External screen for the new 15 inch MacBook Pro
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I'm sorry but I have to call BS on this and you're probably misleading potential buyers. As stated multiple times on articles and other threads, the MBP15 requires above 80W to charge when doing more than just staring at the screen or light web browsing. With this display offering 60w to the MBP15", it charges when in one of those scenarios but slowly so I find it funny that your model charges pretty quickly even under load.
Are you using the 27UD88 or the 5K UF?
Go ahead and call bs then, I'm just speaking from my personal experience and I certainly wouldn't intend to mislead potential buyers.
I'm using the 27UD88-W.
Granted, I haven't run at 100% CPU load for hours on end and I don't watch & time each percentage gain when charging. Under normal use for me, which consists of product design apps (3D CAD modeling, CAM tool path calculation, FEA/CFD/thermal simulation) on the big screen and safari open on the laptop screen, I find it to charge quicker than I expected. My "quickness" reference point is the charging speed of my 2011 MBA.
I might well have a different definition of "quickly" and "under load" than you or others. In my use cases, I'm very happy with the combo.
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I'm looking for a 25"+ IPS screen with 85w+ single cable charging. Has to support VESA mounts and speakers would be a plus. The UltraFine isn't worth it, and I don't need anything close to 5k. In fact 2560px would be nice. Is this happening any time soon?
Did you swap the stock cable out or something? Quite a few posters on here have tried different cables and run load of tests to try and get that LG to charge a 15" MBP but nobody managed to get it to work. The best result was a very slow, almost trickle charge, but typically it would appear to maintain the charge whilst actually draining the battery to the point where the laptop would just hit 0% and switch off.
Stock LG cable.
EDIT: I just ran a render that puts CPU at full load, and in this situation, the MBP did not charge from the monitor. So yes, in extremely heavy use, the MBP does not charge from the 27UD88-W. This is outside my normal work flow though as I have a dedicated MP for rendering.
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I have to disagree. I have a spare Apple 61w power supply at the office that I use on my new 15" MBP. I bought the power supply back when I had the 13" model. The power supply does a more-than sufficient job of running & charging the machine.
The only situation where it won't is when both CPU and the dGPU is running at full blast. Fortunately this doesn't happen enough in my work flow to deplete the battery while plugged in.
the ultrafine 5k is the only one that supports 85W charging. there was nothing in CES that showed any monitors capable of charging at 85W.
That's really disappointing, though it also seems like the time between the launch of the MBP and CES would make it quite difficult to get something ready to show unless you had something planned already.
Important followup, though: are there indications that the companies are working on this for the future? Not only for Macs, but for PCs as well? If we get a Thinkpad with a one-cable-solution in addition to (or even in place of) docking stations, that would make many business users very pleased!