Could my current mac with the Mini DisplayPort use thunderbolt displays? Even any other thunderbolt technology?
i am in the market for a new desktop computer, iMac or new Macpro if coming soon and priced right. i want two displays and I want my current Macbook Pro end 2008 with the Mini DisplayPort to be able to us a hunderbolt display. is this possible?
thanks
John Hammer1 wrote:
It will work, but only as a display – obviously you will not have access to the hub and daisychain functions.
I don't see that would work... Plus, if it were possible, I would think a company would utilize that for marketing leverage to appeal to more users with only the older mDP cpu's. In this case, that's not what is happening. So I don't believe it will work like that. Typically, a company wouldn't make specific statements (ex "attaching to any Thunderbolt enabled device"), if it was Not a requirement to work.
Then... on the technical side of it...
The TB cable / signal is a (new technology) Muxed signal of both PCIe and DP data. Without the TB chipset / hardware on the host machine, it can Not communicate properly down the Thunderbolt cable and to any TB device.
As you can see in the cable cut-away... it's NOT just a matter of adding individual DP lines along with some individual PCIe lines and wrap it up in a single cable.... where you can choose just to use only the DP lines. Nope... this is highly improbable and suggests that using an OLD (non-TB) computer will NOT work at ALL, if connecting to a TB display or any TB device.
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