Macbook Pro 2014 dual monitor with Displayport daisy-chain

Hello
Is there a good dock where you can daisy-chain Displayport 1.2 monitors? For example:
[Macbook Pro 13 retina 2014] ---- thunderbolt cable ----- [ideal dock!] ---- Displayport cable ---- [Monitor] --- Displayport cable --- [Monitor]
I don't want to buy an Apple monitor - I've got two good Dell units.
If so could someone suggest a good unit?
Thanks,
Andre

I have almost exactly the same problem. I used to have a 12inch PB G4 that worked beautifully on my DVI KVM switch (ATEN CS-1762 on a Samsung LCD), but my new MacBook Pro has a lot of trouble.
Initially all my windows were squashed and moved toward the lower part of the screen after switching the focus away from the MBP and back. Even worse, sometimes the MBP did not recognize the display change and gave me a 640x480 screen. As far as I figured out my KVM switch is emulating a standard VGA monitor when the focus is on the other machine, which seems to confuse the MBP. When this happens the display panel shows "KVM Monitor" as screen name instead of "SyncMaster".
This got frustrating pretty quickly, so I updated the firmware of my KVM switch. Now 80% of the time everything is fine, i.e. the resolution is normal and all the windows are in their correct position. 10% of the time, I still get 640x480 (less often than before), but another 10% of the time the MBP screen auto-detection gets so messed up that only unplugging the KVM switch will get it to show anything either on the internal or external display. Even worse, a couple of times I had to power-cycle to recover from this weird state.
I looked around for a fair bit, but haven't found any solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
dbora: What DVI KVM switch do you have?
MacbookPro Core 2 Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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