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For instance, you can connect your Thunderbolt 4 laptop, two 4K displays, and still have an additional port for external drives or other peripherals. These new docks can provide up to four Thunderbolt 4 ports, enough for your host laptop and other accessories. The new Thunderbolt 4 docking stations now have a much smaller physical footprint and more ports than Thunderbolt 3 docks.įor the first time, you can find more than two Thunderbolt ports on a docking station. One of the areas that benefit significantly from the new Thunderbolt 4 specification is docking stations. While Thunderbolt 4 won’t be faster than Thunderbolt 3, it brings some long-overdue enhancements to the current specification, which improves performance and user experience. Thunderbolt 4 is here to make your experience even better. Learn more.īringing lighting 40Gbps speeds, charging, and video on the same port allows you to get high performance from your thin and light ultrabook. As an Amazon Associate, we can earn from qualifying purchases. Obviously, gaming of any sort is a different beast and not sure how that would perform with this type of setup but suspect it would have issues with gaming.This post includes affiliate links, for which we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you should you make a purchase using our links.
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When I say good, I mean good for standard productivity, non DRM movie watching, etc. In all it's a good solution for an M1 but obviously it needs refinement/improvement. unlock with Apple Watch does not currently work, since the OS thinks the screen is being recorded. This happens on all displays while displaylink is activeģ). While displaylink app is active, video from the Apple TV app only shows as a black screen. Clamshell mode needs to implemented, currently its all displays active or none while using Displaylink in extended desktop modeĢ).
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The fast performance might be due to the unified memory architecture and will probably get better since the displaylink drivers haven't been optimized for the M1 chip yet (the are coded for Intel arch as far as I know).
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If you got what you expected in every case, I would not use such strong terms to describe DisplayLink.Īctually the Displaylink performance on an M1 MacBook Pro is very good and using a dock such as the HP Universal USB-C G2 dock (5TW13UT), I have 2 external 27" Acer Predator monitors at 1440P plus the built in display active in extended desktop mode. I think the Big Surprise for a lot of Hub/Dock buyers is that they thought they were getting a "real" display, but actually got a DisplayLink "fake" Display. There have been cases where MacOS changes completely Borked DisplayLink software, and it took some time for them to recover. These displays depend on DisplayLink software, and are at the whim of Apple when they make MacOS changes. But that is NOT the same as the computer supporting a second, built-in, accelerated display. It is really nice to know that you can use a DisplayLink display if you MUST have an additional display for some of the types of data I mentioned.
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It may be acceptable for a second display showing slow-to-change data such as computer program listings, stock quotes, or spreadsheets, but NOT for full motion Video, and mouse-tracking on that display can lag, and can make you feel queasy.

It is not a true "accelerated" display, and it suffers from lagging.

DisplayLink technology creates a "fake" display buffer in RAM, sends the data out over a slower interface to a stunt box with DisplayLink custom chips that put that data back onto a "legacy" interface.
