#USB TO HDMI CONVERTER FOR MAC MINI HOW TO#
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Every well-designed Thunderbolt 1/2 device that has a daisy-chaining port, and that doesn't 'consume' the encapsulated DisplayPort signal to implement its own video ports, must do this job.ģ. Since your PA322 is plugged into the daisy-chaining port of your Thunderbolt 2 RAID enclosure, the RAID enclosure gets the job of (a) recognizing the need to extract the DisplayPort signal from the Thunderbolt signal, and (b) doing so.

#USB TO HDMI CONVERTER FOR MAC MINI HOW TO#

It does know how to forward intact TB signals, including ones that happen to have encapsulated DisplayPort signals.Ģ. The TB2 TB3 adapter does not know how to extract an encapsulated DisplayPort signal from inside of a Thunderbolt one. The Adapter's documentation indicates that DisplayPort displays are not supported at all, so I suppose getting a 30Hz reliable connection is more than I had a right to expect.ġ. It seems that Apple's TB2 > TB3 Adapter is reducing refresh to 30Hz. Update: I get 60Hz with the PA322 connected via a DisplayPort > USB-C cable.

#USB TO HDMI CONVERTER FOR MAC MINI PRO#

Sys Report indicates only 30Hz, but I've not noticed any difference compared to my 2013 Mac Pro with the same display. If the OP is using the same USB-C cable with both the Retina MacBook and M1 Mini, that would seem to make it less likely that the data-carrying capacity of the cable is the problem.įrom 4:37 on this video there's some info on connections and cables used, including older versus newer Apple cables: įWIW, my M1 mini works fine with my NEC PA322 connected via a DisplayPort > Mini DisplayPort cable into a Thunderbolt 2 RAID and an Apple Thunderbolt 2 > Thunderbolt 3 adapter. OTOH, the OP reports that a USB-C connection to a Retina MacBook Pro works. You'd want something better than that for video ideally, a cable that could carry a UHD/4K video signal. There are cables that are designed for charging smartphones or tablets but that are only advertised as being able to carry data at USB 2.0 speeds. The type of USB-C cable could make a difference. Otherwise just wait for the topic to get sorted out by Apple - surely one of the top priority tasks on their list. In case you want a one wire connection get one of those TB3 docking stations - they'll probably work fine also at this point in time. The Display problem is a topic that seems to affect certain combinations with USB-C displays but not with Thunderbolt connected displays. My suggestion is to wait until mid 2021 for a switch to the new M1 machines. It has tremendous potential and the speed gain is enormous but I'd not use it for mission critical work as of today. Wait for macOS 11.1.1 or 11.2 to fix that and check the cables you're using - not all cable support the same connection type.Īs elaborated before macOS 11 on M1 machines is not yet production grade environment IMHIO. Not sure if I am missing anything using it with HDMI, but I would rather do the usb-c connection.

#USB TO HDMI CONVERTER FOR MAC MINI UPDATE#

Finally he said I needed to update to OS 11.1 and that should fix it. I spent 45 min with Apple and the guy read everything he could find. It works fine with HDMI and it works with the MacBook Pro with usb-c ports.

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