Dongles For Mac
Posted : admin On 11/10/2019Sep 21, 2013 I was looking around at WiiFi dongles (and actually bought one that claimed Mac compatibility, although when I got home the drivers were listed as only compatible up to OS X 10.6, and I was not able to get it to work). Find cables, charging docks and battery cases for Mac. Charge and sync up your Mac. Buy online with fast, free shipping. Disconnecting a fistful of cables and dongles isn’t a terrible hardship, but being able to grab your laptop and go, then quickly reconnect when you return, is certainly better. This level of convenience makes the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock worth a look, especially if a Mac laptop is your primary computer.
If you've already got your heart set on Apple's new ultrathin MacBook, be sure to set aside $79 for one of these dongles if you want all of the ports you're used to. The new MacBook only includes. Nov 09, 2017 Hey everyone, I just purchased a new 2017 macbook pro non-touch an i have two LG external monitors i want to connect the macbook pro too and also be able to have it run in extended mode. Can anyone point me in the right direction of cables or dongles I need to buy to make this happen. The only ports on the monitors are hdmi. Thank you in advance. Now that the new Mac Mini is out. Is anyone making a modern docking station that is the same size and shape of the Mac Mini? With multiple TB3, USB-C and USB-A, Ethernet, etc. Maybe with an empty 2.5' drive bay inside? Might be great opportunity. Let people build their own modular solution! EDIT: forgive me.
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There is one refrain that, for the last few years, always pops up at Apple events: thinness. Through magical material, design, and manufacturing advances, Apple keeps making its devices thinner. That's why it always amuses me when people slot the 6.9mm-thick iPhone 6 into a chunky case that completely counters Apple's advances. As Phil Schiller unveiled the new MacBook yesterday, a similar thought came to mind: If you buy a MacBook, the svelte silhouette of your new laptop might be ruined by a bunch of dongles.
In case you haven't read our hands-on impressions, let me bring you up to speed: The new Apple MacBook only has two ports. There's a 3.5mm headphone jack on the right, and a single USB Type C port on the left. There's no Mini DisplayPort, no Thunderbolt, no HDMI—not even the much beloved MagSafe power connector. Instead, if you want to plug anything in, you'll need a dongle. If you're the kind of person who plugs devices into your laptop—a keyboard, mouse, camera, external display, etc.—this is a bit of a problem.
Apple currently offers three options: a straight Type C to original (Type A) USB for $19, and then two multi-port'AV' dongles for $79 each—both provide a Type C connector and an original USB connector, and then an additional HDMI or 15-pin VGA port depending on which one you buy. There are no dongles that provide either DisplayPort or Thunderbolt, nor Gigabit Ethernet.
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Bear in mind that the new MacBook also charges over the Type C connector—so, in the case of the $19 adapter that gives you a single standard USB connector, you can choose to either charge your laptop or connect a peripheral, not both. Even with the $79 adapters, if you want to keep your battery topped up, you only get a single USB port for expansion. This means that if you want to plug multiple USB devices into your new MacBook, you'll need a daisy chain of dongles and hubs.
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Now, I understand why Apple moved to the Type C connector—it allows for a thinner chassis and simpler design—but what I don't get is why Apple only chose to include a single port. Would it really have been too difficult to include another Type C port on the right side of the laptop as well? Why not three ports: Two on the left plus one on the right, next to the headphone jack. Look at the image above: There is space for a second port on the left side of the laptop.
Perhaps additional ports would bite into the volume of the battery—but I'd certainly take a second or third port in exchange for lower battery life. There's another possibility too, of course: Apple may have some metrics that show that very few people plug peripherals into their laptops, and thus created the simplest design possible with the best battery life.
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Beyond the immediate dongle-related ramifications, the new MacBook also makes me wonder if Apple is looking at a future without the DisplayPort/Thunderbolt connector. While DisplayPort can be carried over the Type C connector (once someone releases the appropriate dongle, anyway), neither Apple or Intel have yet announced whether there'll be a USB Alternate Mode that allows for Thunderbolt-over-USB. This is the first Apple laptop or desktop to ship without a Thunderbolt port since the technology was introduced in 2011. As Apple shaves a few millimeters off future versions of the MacBook Air and Pro, will the Thunderbolt port live on?
Updated: Skylake, the successor to Intel's Broadwell platform, will support Thunderbolt 3, which introduces a smaller connector. Maybe this first-gen MacBook just falls at an odd time, where Apple wants to keep Thunderbolt going, but doesn't have the right port for it yet.
Apple clearly made a few compromises to get the new MacBook as thin as possible, while still managing to cram in a Retina display and getting close to the battery life of the MacBook Air. Early impressions of the low-travel keyboard are mixed, and the Broadwell U Core M with its 5W TDP means your new MacBook will be outperformed by a previous-gen (2013) MacBook Air. For the MacBook's target market, I doubt these compromises will pose much of an issue—for me, though, I'll stick with the MacBook Pro.