Allison Sheridan interviews Bernie Thompson, founder of Plugable Technologies, about their new Thunderbolt 3 docking station. Bernie describes how there is confusion with users regarding the capabilities of USB-C vs. Thunderbolt 3 as well as HDMI vs. Display Port. To resolve that ambiguity, Plugable has designed a dock that supports all of these capabilities. The […]
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Thunderbolt Docks – Just Because You Can Plug It In Doesn’t Mean it Will Work
In November of 2016, I got the Touch Bar MacBook Pro. It’s got the new fangled USB-C ports that carry Thunderbolt 3. I did a post back then about how there were some unexpected challenges with that new machine with my existing hardware. Specifically, there was no adapter available to allow me to use my […]
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Amazon tricks me into buying stuff with the Echo Dot, OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock review by Trevor Drover, tech stocking stuffers under $50, new SCO Member Tutorials iOS app for ScreenCasts Online, $22 AllSmartLife USB-C adapter to make your DisplayPort monitor work with a new MacBook Pro. mp3 download
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Last week I told you about how the new MacBook Pro won’t run a DisplayPort monitor. I quoted the Apple support article that explains that their USB-C to Thunderbolt adapter simply will not work with any DisplayPort display, including their own legacy monitors. I explained how my darling husband Steve swapped monitors with me so […]
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Six years ago I splurged and bought myself a 24″ Apple Cinema Display. I loved that display. It was huge in that day and worked perfectly with my 2011 MacBook Pro. In 2013 I upgraded to a the fancy new Retina MacBook Pro, but something weird started happening. Fairly frequently, the monitor would blink off […]
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