How do you connect the USC Macbook 12 inch to an Apple Thunderbolt Display?
MacBook, iOS 8.3
Short answer: Thunderbolt displays - any generation - are not supported by the 12" MacBook. You must use an Apple computer that contains Thunderbolt hardware within it, which the 12" MacBook does not have.
Longer answer: I actually tried this in the spring of 2017 with a variety of adapters with one of the techs at a local Apple Store with just about all the (Apple-supported) adapters they had onhand that would mechanically fit the Thunderbolt 2 display. With every single adapter, we got a message on the 12" MacBook that we connected an unsupported display. Same thing happened with the newer Thunderbolt monitors produced by LG for Thunderbolt 3.
Conclusion: Even though Thunderbolt 3 connections are the same fit as USB-C (or that Thunderbolt 2 connections are the same fit as mDP) Thunderbolt displays will not work with those ports unless they are explicitly specified as Thunderbolt ports on the computer, meaning the computer contains the necessary hardware within it to make it work with Thunderbolt devices, including Thunderbolt displays.
This means that you have 3 options:
Grane Duke wrote:
I think that you have failed to prove it....!!
It gets proven when the OP plugs a USB-C to MDP cable in his Mac, until then it's not proven.
Apple will never delete a post which is relevant to the topic. Please stop lying.
Henceforth, I shouldn't see you reporting or deleting relevant posts unnecessarily, when you run out of an idea to support your words. It needs efforts to type a particular post. Keep this thing in mind.
If you really want to prove yourself then you should provide some concrete evidence.
Csound1, you are simply obscuring the OP’s post. Stop it. As you can see that no one including the OP agrees with you.
Is that the reason you deleted mine and OP’s post...??
Grane Duke wrote:
Apple will never delete a post which is relevant to the topic. Please stop lying.
I am not lying, I do not have the authority to delete a post, none of us can. It is reserved for the moderators only. (check the forum rules if you want to see)
Grane Duke wrote:
Please stop lying.
Right back at ya
Csound1 wrote:
I am not lying, I do not have the authority to delete a post, none of us can. It is reserved for the moderators only. (check the forum rules if you want to see)
My post was marked helpful before the deletion, then why would the moderator delete it thinking as a irrelevant post...??
I do not speak for the moderators either.
Here's what I do not understand:
Clearly the spec supports DP, MDP is electrically identical and uses the same connector is TB. MDP 1.1 and 1.2 are supported over TB, so what is missing?
Thunderbolt, developed under the name Light Peak,[1] is a hardware interface that allows the connection of external peripherals to a computer. It uses the same connector as Mini DisplayPort (MDP). It was first sold as part of a consumer product on on February 24, 2011.[2]
Thunderbolt combines PCI Express (PCIe) and DisplayPort (DP) into one serial signal alongside a DC connection for electric power, transmitted over one cable. Up to six peripherals may be supported by one connector through various topologies.
A single Mini DisplayPort monitor or other device of any kind may be connected directly or at the very end of the chain. Thunderbolt is interoperable with DP-1.1a compatible devices.
According to Intel's ThunderBolt spec versions 1 and 2 support MDP as a video protocol,
Yes, but the reverse of that is not true. A Mac with MiniDisplayport will not work with an Apple Thunderbolt Display. Did you read through the Apple Support and example links that I provided. Thunderbolt supports Displayport, but Displayport doesn't support Thunderbolt.
I'm done here. You're just clogging up my email box.
I know that, but an MDP signal is not TB, it is a standard supported (supposedly) by TB.
I haven’t seen a stubborn person like you before.
You are just proving to others how worthless you are by posting your comments and wasting others time.
No one will laugh at you if you except defeat.
Just lock this thread.
I am seriously done with you.
I do not have the ability to lock any thread.
And until I discover why Apples Thunderbolt monitor does not adhere to the Thunderbolt specification it's not answered to my satisfaction
There is a more technical discussion of this topic here:
'How to connect Apple Thunderbolt Display to new Retina MacBook?
At this stage is does not look too hopeful...
See also this Macrumours discussion:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=21001409#post21001409
And here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kickshark/hydradock-11-port-usb-c-dock-for- apple-macbook
Will my Apple Thunderbolt display work with the HydraDock?
No. The PCIe data signal required for Thunderbolt is not present from the MacBook's USB-C port. So, we cannot drive a Thunderbolt display — only HDMI or Mini DisplayPort.
Macbook 12inch to thunderbolt display?
