MacBook Pros and (their lack of) DisplayPort MST (Multi-Stream) support: what about macOS Catalina?

Old point: Daisy-chaining two USB-C displays on a MacBook Pro (2016, 2017 models).

So far it won't work with MacOS X (including Mojave) as MST is supported. Sadly it works even with a Bootcamp Windows?

New Question: what about macOS Catalina? Any changes regarding MST support?

MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.14

Posted on Oct 25, 2019 7:55 AM

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squarefw

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Dec 17, 2019 8:44 AM in response to obn

Still not, I can confirm :(

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