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Third party hub/dock to connect 2nd Apple studio display? – MacRumors


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camner

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I have ordered two Apple Studio Displays (5K/27”) to go along with my M4 Pro Mac Mini. I know I can connect each of the displays to a different Thunderbolt port on the Mini with no problem. (I also know that daisy chaining one Studio Display to the other will NOT work.)​

To save ports on the Mini (and to get more ports for other peripherals), I’m wondering if there are 3rd party hubs/docks that support a 5K monitor such as the Apple Studio Display. The hubs/docks I’ve seen mention the number of 4K monitors able to be connected, but don’t mention 5K displays.

 

Any TB3 or TB4 dock will do this. You connect the ASD to the downstream port of a TB3 dock.
Some TB4 docks have more than one downstream TB4 port (up to three), and if it’s a fully featured TB4 dock, like the Caldigit ones, you can connect both ASDs to the dock.
That’s the theory, anyway. ;)

Connecting a monitor uses up some of the available bandwidth for other TB or USB 3.* SSDs to plug into the dock, but that’s not really a problem unless you have heavy disk use.

 



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