bunnspecial
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Side note-I picked up a nifty little TB dock from OWC this past week.
It's 14 ports, including a whole bunch of USB 3.0 type A, a USB-C, and two TB ports. The only thing I'd like that it's missing is Firewire, and I have a potential solution to get it. I have my 27" Cinema display connected to it, and it makes for a slick little desktop set-up combined with the BT keyboard and mouse. I even have a Superdrive on it
Although I hope to see Magsafe return, this particular dock has exposed me to one real advantage of USB-C/TB3. I can have this really nice dock that connects with a single port that both transfers data(blazing fast) and charges. I hope anything with Magsafe retains the ability to charge over USB-C.
Just for fun, I have the dock set up now so that I can plug an older TB1/TB2 Mac into it. My 2011 13" plugs into it and everything works perfectly, and I get USB 3.0 on it. It's a shame my 17" kind of falls apart doing that since the dGPU is hardware-disabled and can't directly drive an external display. There's a way I could get it run a display, but it's complicated...
It's 14 ports, including a whole bunch of USB 3.0 type A, a USB-C, and two TB ports. The only thing I'd like that it's missing is Firewire, and I have a potential solution to get it. I have my 27" Cinema display connected to it, and it makes for a slick little desktop set-up combined with the BT keyboard and mouse. I even have a Superdrive on it
Although I hope to see Magsafe return, this particular dock has exposed me to one real advantage of USB-C/TB3. I can have this really nice dock that connects with a single port that both transfers data(blazing fast) and charges. I hope anything with Magsafe retains the ability to charge over USB-C.
Just for fun, I have the dock set up now so that I can plug an older TB1/TB2 Mac into it. My 2011 13" plugs into it and everything works perfectly, and I get USB 3.0 on it. It's a shame my 17" kind of falls apart doing that since the dGPU is hardware-disabled and can't directly drive an external display. There's a way I could get it run a display, but it's complicated...