Also, something I didn't know, but learned via googling: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5918
The Mac Pro doesn't have 6 displays on one TB bus, it has 2 displays on each of 3 TB buses. Given the lack of extension cables, I don't understand where they want you to put all of those monitors, though. On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Richard Pieri <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/7/2014 9:44 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >> I looked for thunderbolt hubs (like a USB hub) to possibly buy more >> thunderbolt cables and use the hub as a signal repeater, but no hubs >> exist. > > And never will. Thunderbolt is a daisy chain bus like Firewire. > > Male to female Thunderbolt extension cables don't exist and never will. > The active signaling mechanism used within the cables themselves does > not permit it. > > Thunderbolt is limited to six devices in a chain including the host. > > It is be possible to create a Thunderbolt null device that acts as an > extension but it would be a Thunderbolt device and it would count > against the six device limit. > > There are Thunderbolt (F) to mini-DisplayPort (M) cables available but > given Thunderbolt's topology you can have only one of them and it must > be the last device on the bus chain. > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
