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Re:The new MacBook by chatmasta on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:06PM (#9172579)
I have two thunderbolt displays daisy chained into the single thunderbolt port on my 2013 MacBook Air. Each display is basically also a dock, with other peripheral ports in the back. It works very well because as I understand it thunderbolt is 10gbps transfer.

Does USB-C work the same way?

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Re:The new MacBook by toomuchtodo on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:13PM (#9172641)
This is exactly what I'm wondering. I only have one Thunderbolt display, but I want another, and am curious if I should hold out for a bit.
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Re:The new MacBook by chatmasta on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:43PM (#9172895)
I'm selling both mine as I will be traveling a lot in the next year. Email me at [email protected] if you want one. :)
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Re:The new MacBook by toomuchtodo on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:54PM (#9173036)
I'll do so! I travel frequently as well (100% remote worker), but I use Pelican cases to move all my kit around the world ;)
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Re:The new MacBook by lucaspiller on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:20PM (#9173246)
What cases do you have? I looked into these before, but anything with a decent size seemed too heavy to take on aircraft (assuming a 30kg checked in limit).
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Re:The new MacBook by toomuchtodo on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:39PM (#9173405)
I'll have to find the exact model numbers, but I don't bring it on aircraft, I ship it ahead of me.
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Re:The new MacBook by lsaferite on Monday March 09, 2015 @03:48PM (#9173480)
The DP over Type-C stuff (Alternate Mode) is not hub traversable.

So, you could talk to a single DP device, but that DP device could be a DP MST splitter. This could allow it to act as a DP hub for you to daisy chain a second monitor.

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