(My Macbook A1181 will power on this way, so I assume the Macbook Pro will too. I treated the mesh wire as one wire and the inner coated wire as the second wire and separated them from each other.
It has no battery, and when I use the charger cord, it won't turn on. I spiced the inner wire firmly together and carefully taped it (I used duck tape), then connected (twisted) the outer 'mesh' and made it the other wire. Low-wattage USB-C: Some cables with USB-C connectors at one end and a different kind of USB connector (like Type A or Micro Type B) can’t pass a lot of power.They mostly manage USB 2.0 data (480. This AC-powered dock, which I haven’t reviewed, includes a nice array of ports that includes Mini DisplayPort but not HDMI, so it’s a great backwards-compatible one. I recently bought an older model Macbook Pro from a surplus sale at my school. Michael tried the Henge Stone Dock ($190), and it’s been working for him. Macworld reader MichaelĪ 30-inch Cinema Display in use with a MacBook Pro with Thunderbolt 3. I knew this existed, but in some tests colleagues conducted in 2017 and in reports from readers over the last two years, it seemed like there wasn’t compatibility via this adapter to any of the existing USB-C docks that offered Mini DisplayPort as an output device. However, you can find it in new and used condition on Amazon, and some other companies still make similar adapters, including Monoprice, which offers one for $60. The adapter and dock and power supply arrangement.Īpple no longer sells this adapter, which retailed for $100, or its much cheaper standard DVI to Mini DisplayPort adapter. He relied on Apple’s existing dual-link DVI adapter that connected monitors with those video outputs, to a Mini DisplayPort connector for earlier Macs, which is compatible with Macs that rely on DisplayPort video over Mini DisplayPort-only Macs as well as those that pass DisplayPort video over Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2.
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