Just bought a Mac Studio. I have several older RAID 8-bay housings that can output with Thunderbolt 2 cables, since I had them connected to my MacPro (2013) Thunderbolt ports.
What's the best way to connect these housings to the new Mac Studio? I know Apple offers a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. Is there some way more current to connect to the Thunderbolt 4 ports on the Mac Studio?
With thanks, Duncan
Mac Studio
The Apple adapter is your best bet, but it is only for genuine ThunderBolt devices on each side, and it does not provide power in either direction.
The difference between ThunderBolt-4 and ThunderBolt-3 is very small, and is mainly in USB subset features, so not really applicable in this case.
The Apple adapter is your best bet, but it is only for genuine ThunderBolt devices on each side, and it does not provide power in either direction.
The difference between ThunderBolt-4 and ThunderBolt-3 is very small, and is mainly in USB subset features, so not really applicable in this case.
Grant, when I connected my Eizo CG318 monitor to my new Mac Studio, the screen went black. Then I came back to Apple Communities and read a post that says on the B&H website it says, "”The ColorEdge CG319X does not support macOS models using the Apple M1 chip.”
WHAT?!?! I'm shocked. Is there any way around this?
With thanks, Duncan
Video Signals Input Terminals
DisplayPort x 2 (HDCP 1.3), HDMI x 2 (Deep Color, HDCP 1.4)
That is NOT a Thunderbolt-2 Display.
You need a USB-C to DisplayPort adapter. Here is one:
Monoprice Consul Series USB-C DisplayPort Adapter -- # 35503 -- $13.99
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Grant,
Thanks so much. I know very little about tech, being retired from a bank and only occasionally editing video for local nonprofits. So your reaching out to help me is greatly appreciated. I think you've saved me from some costly actions and certainly reduced my anxiety! Thanks again. Duncan
I hope this all works out for you.
One of my first jobs while still in college was working for a saving bank service bureau. They provided a central living-room sized computer that held the accounts and ran the teller terminals for 40 savings banks across the state and a bit beyond.
One of the most interesting discoveries for me was the concept of the teller journal. Every computer transaction was tagged with the date&time of the previous last transaction, so your could follow the paper trail all the way back to the day the account was opened, given enough time to search those printouts. That left the [expensive] online data compact, but allowed for manual back-trace when needed..
The other thing I learned from one of the banker types was that when reconciling manual records, if the error in your ledger digits added up to 9, you had transposed the digits somewhere.
Grant, you have an amazing memory! I retired from Bank of America in about 2000, having been responsible for the archives and communication of the historical story and heritage of the bank. Your story of the living-room sized computer reminds me of its precedent. In 1950 B of A, a bank built by its legendary founder, A.P. Giannini, for millions of people, was overrun with hand-processing millions of checking accounts. They contracted with the Stanford Research Institute to harness this new thing called "computers" to the task. Over several years, SRI created what I've been told was the first use of computers for business operations anywhere in the world. The computer and check processing system was called ERMA which stood for the Electronic Recording Method of Accounting. The bank announced that it had hired a 5-ton bookkeeper! One invention of this project was MICR, magnetic ink character recognition. MICR was at the heart of those funny little numbers at the bottom of checks that could be read by both machines and people. Amazingly, 70 years later, MICR is still in use. The bank decided to give other banks the rights to the software and systems so a system of exchanging checks and data could be adopted by the industry and be universally shared. It worked. Today some of the original ERMA equipment is in the Smithsonian. Thought you might enjoy reading about it.
Thanks for that.
One of my favorite stores was that in 1970, the president of Sperry-Rand said something like, "There are not enough people alive today to do the work of the relatively small number of computers in the United States alone."
What he was telling us was that when we blinked, another industrial revolution had come to pass.
That was well before 1984, the IBM PC and Apple Mac changed it all up again.
A final follow up story. One of the engineers working at Stanford Research Institute in the 1950s was a man named Karsten Solheim. At lunch time he would go out on the lawn around the SRI facility and experiment with golf clubs he was creating. He would tell anyone who would watch, "Listen to the 'ping'! That was his clue the club was a success. Fast forward a few years and Karsten founded his own golf club manufacturing company. He named it "Ping"
Today Ping operates worldwide as a subsidiary of Karsten Manufacturing Corporation, pretty much a family run corporation. I guess Karsten was right about the 'ping.'
Thank you, Grant. I didn't want to move forward without advice from someone who knows more than I do. I much appreciate your responding! Thanks again, Duncan
Best adapter for Thunderbolt 2 to Mac Studio ports?
