[OSX-Users] macbook usb-c and apple cinema display

[Jules Field]

Only a USB-C adapter with a USB-C socket on it (such as the big Apple 
HDMI adapter) will provide power to the MacBook.

On 26/02/2016 10:36, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
> One reason might be that you’d like one that also allows powering the macbook (as the apple HDMI adaptor does). Can the mini display port do that? (I believe thunderbolt does…)
>
> \vs
>   
>> On 26 Feb 2016, at 10:31, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> No reason whatsoever not to use one of these, I never imagined one might exist. My bad :(
>>
>> On 26/02/2016 09:51, Andrew Paul Landells wrote:
>>> It also looks like direct adapters exist, is there a reason not to use one of those?
>>>
>>> Something like this:
>>>
>>> http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-1-type-c-to-mini-displayport-video-converter-cable-silvery-white-white-16-5cm-416571?tc=GBP&gclid=CNyTp-yTlcsCFSkYwwodDqkHTw#.VtAgFhgWmwY
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> On 26 Feb 2016, at 09:39, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Vladimiro,
>>>
>>> I *think* it can be done.
>>>
>>> You can get from USB-C to HDMI very easily (Apple will sell you a big expensive adapter to do this, there are cheaper non-Apple ones).
>>> That gives you female HDMI.
>>> >From there, you connect a HDMI-HDMI (male to male, standard) cable.
>>>
>>> You then need to plug the far end of that into a HDMI female to mini-DisplayPort male adapter, which does exist:
>>> http://www.mycablemart.com/store/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=5416
>>> (Hopefully Shaun can track down one in the UK for you). It's *vital* that adapter takes the HDMI as the source, not the mini-DisplayPort.
>>>
>>> You then connect that to a mini-DisplayPort female to female coupler, which also does exist:
>>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mini-Display-Port-Female-Coupler/dp/B003KQ6BMC
>>>
>>> to which you plug in the cable from your Apple Cinema Display.
>>>
>>> Being an engineer, I'm *not* going to guarantee that will work, as it's an Apple display which might decide it's not going to put up with anything other than a Mac's mini-DisplayPort/Thunderbolt socket on the end of its cable (Remember many Apple cables have embedded DRM).
>>>
>>> But it's definitely worth a shot!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jules.
>>>
>>> On 26/02/2016 09:13, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everbody,
>>>
>>>          Any advice on connecting one of the new MacBooks with only the USB-C port to a cinema display (with a mini display port, not thunderbolt).
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> \vs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jules
>>>
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>>>
>> Jules
>>
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>> Jules Field MEng MBCS CITP CEng
>> email+iMessage: Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>> Twitter: @JulesFM
>>
>> Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
>> Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
>> University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
>>
>> 'That is the land of lost content,
>> I see it shining plain,
>> The happy highways where I went,
>> And cannot come again.' - A.E. Houseman
>>
>

Jules

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Twitter: @JulesFM

Senior Tutor, Electronics and Computer Science
Teaching Systems Manager, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK

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