Cable between MBP and external display.

bcjames · 13 Dec 2013 at 14:57

Hey,

I'm using my MBP as my main computer, but as I work from home on it a lot, I've added a brilliant Asus P248Q alongside it, connected via mini display port to display port. All good.

The screen also has a USB hub within it, which I'd like to make convenient use of. The pre thunderbolt Cinema Displays had a three way cable, like a mini dock. Does anyone know if a usb+minidp/dp cable is available, as shown below? I'd like to consolidate some of the cabling! I've googled, but not had much luck in actually finding out if such a thing exists.

Thanks,

James

cable by coachjamesbull, on Flickr

Caged · 13 Dec 2013 at 17:44

I can see a bunch of extensions, but not the setup you need.

The best I can suggest is that you make one yourself and then put some braid and heatshrink around the bundle.

bcjames · 13 Dec 2013 at 18:06

Hey Caged,

That's what I was thinking. I'll give it a go next week

Lorddalron · 14 Dec 2013 at 14:15

What cable/accessory would i require if i was looking to hook my macbook pro up to Two monitors via hdmi.

The monitors in question are 2 x AOC i2367FH.

Caged · 14 Dec 2013 at 15:36

What MacBook Pro is it? Does it have an HDMI port and ThunderBolt?

Lorddalron · 14 Dec 2013 at 19:45

Caged said:
What MacBook Pro is it? Does it have an HDMI port and ThunderBolt?

Mid 2012 with no HDMI but thunderbolt and mini display port.

Ive come across THIS but after hunting around on youtube this just seems too easy!

However, Certain Youtube video shows devices such as THIS which starts hitting the pocket a lot harder.

Part of me wants to go for the easy option of a single monitor, maybe 27", but dual AOC monitors looks pretty sweet.

Caged · 15 Dec 2013 at 02:10

Isn't the Thunderbolt and Mini-DP on one connector though? The DisplayPort devices with more than one output are either a passive splitter (yuck), or something like this which uses Multi Stream Transport that only some very new DisplayPort-equipped devices can use (Dell monitors do the same sort of thing, you can daisy-chain them so an MST device can use one physical port to connect multiple displays).

So for your MacBook Pro you're looking at a USB video adapter. Anything DisplayLink and USB 3.0 will be fine.

I think that Zotac product is a cheaper version of a DualHead2Go, seems hit-and miss according to the reviews. Also your Mac won't see two displays, just one really wide one, so none of the clever dual monitor stuff will work.

Lorddalron · 15 Dec 2013 at 16:31

Caged said:
Isn't the Thunderbolt and Mini-DP on one connector though?

Yea sorry, i was getting it confused with the firewire port.

Lorddalron · 15 Dec 2013 at 16:47

I see your link is in the USA. I wonder if this would work:

one of THESE

I would connect this to my mac via the Display port to hdmi adapter??

Caged · 15 Dec 2013 at 17:02

That mirrors the display. The best way to get what you're after is one monitor plugged into the Mini DisplayPort and another on a USB 3.0 video card.