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Bought an M3 Max so I could plug 3 monitors at the same time. Can't find any dock that work (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello !

I'm trying to find a dock to drive 3 external monitors to my Macbook Pro, but I cannot find any.

Is there any dock that would allow me to do that?

Thank you :)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

No. This is a limitation of Thunderbolt and the fact that macOS doesn’t support multi-stream transport. You need to use (at least) one other port to get 3 monitors working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It’s possible, you just need to find a docking station that supports DisplayLink, download the DisplayLink software on your MacBook, and go through all that. Takes a bit to set up, but it should work. Then again I’ve only heard this for the M1, not the new one yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I have a couple docks I need to test, but it is seemingly more difficult to do this on M series. I feel there has to be a way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

https://plugable.com/products/ud-ultc4k

I use this at the office, but only use two monitors so can't confirm if the 3rd port will actually work. But it does have three outputs...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Daisy chain