I'm curious about whether it's possible to hook up a Thunderbolt display then some other thunderbolt peripheral (e.g. Lacie HD) and then daisy chaining a Mini Display port to not Thunderbolt monitor. If someone could test that out it would be awesome and a good way to have 2 external monitors running off a MBA without having to use a laggy USB -> DVI adapter!
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MBA with Thunderbolt display, TB HD & seconddisplay
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I'm curious if there is a way to trick it into using 2 externals though. It won't support thunderbolt display -> second display, but I wonder if it's possible to support thunderbolt display -> thunderbolt HD -> display
thunderbolt display must be last in the chain so that wouldn't work.
you'd have to do hd > thunderbolt display.
the display only has one port so you can't do in then out.
edit.. actually the thunderbolt display comes with a thunderbolt cable as well as thunderbolt port.
So technically you could take the built in cable to connect to the laptop. and then go port to port on the two displays. You can do that on the mb pro for sure.
you'd have to do hd > thunderbolt display.
the display only has one port so you can't do in then out.
edit.. actually the thunderbolt display comes with a thunderbolt cable as well as thunderbolt port.
So technically you could take the built in cable to connect to the laptop. and then go port to port on the two displays. You can do that on the mb pro for sure.
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I'm pretty sure thats not right.
Thunderbolt display can go anywhere in the chain
it's Display Port that must be at the end of the chain however.
Nah you can't, you can do that on a MBP but not on an Air. Apple has concluded that the GPU in the Air is just too weak to run two external displays.
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