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1 0 on 10-09-2015

dispicio

Hi,
I need to connect two external DisplayPort-monitors to my 11″ MBA (Early 2014, A1465, i7-4650U, 8GB memory).

The CSV-5200 seems to be perfect, but I don’t know if it will work.

My Macbook Air has one Thunderbolt 1 port.
Thunderbolt 1 is compatible with DisplayPort 1.1a.
DisplayPort 1.1a is not capable of MST, for which DisplayPort 1.2 is necessary.
Thunderbolt 2 is based on DisplayPort 1.2.

But the Intel i7-4650U HD Graphics 5000 in my MBA should support DisplayPort 1.2 and MST!

Things are even more complicated. I’m running a Linux-based OS on my MBA (which seems to support MST better than OS X).

I found some evidence of people who got multi monitors working on a Thunderbolt 1 device (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4740489?start=43&tstart=0 vikbez got two monitors working in Windows with Mid-2012 MacBook Pro).

Maybe you could clear things up?
Thank you so much, this is causing headaches..

0 0 on 11-09-2015

Paul

Hi,
We know that in the Macbook with Windows OS will work with the MST, Linux we have not tested yet.
The INTEL HD 5K series supports MST up to 3 independent displays and the 6K series will as well. For Mac OS we have found some issues. I tested the MacBook Pro 15″ 2015 and found that the MST 1-3 will not work properly. This is mainly due to the OS and not the MST Hub.
Hope this helps.

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Macbook Air 11″ Mid-2013 w/ CSV-5200?