OWC Thunderbolt 2 Dock works on new MacBooks w/C? - 12/12/16 07:12 PM
I've been sweating it a bit here, having my new MacBook at work and my old TB2 dock, WAITING for Apple to get their act together and ship my TB2/USBC and Ethernet/USBC adapters, to see if the dock would work through TB2. OWC had no idea if it would work or not. Everyone and their dog are out of stock of those, they're not at my local Apple AASP and not at my local Best Buy even.
I just got an email this morning from OWC to let me know that YES the dock works. yay! BUT... I wonder, it's possible the Displayport still won't work. (it either comes down to an implementation issue in the dongle, or a driver/software issue in the OS) I don' use that, I use the HDMI out here, but there is a caution on Apple's website that the TB2/IUSBC dongle alone will not work for displays. I called Apple to discuss this and pointed out I have a lab full of thunderbolt displays and that turning a room of $1,000 displays into pumpkins wasn't something I found amusing. They didn't have any solutions for me at the time though.
I just got an email this morning from OWC to let me know that YES the dock works. yay! BUT... I wonder, it's possible the Displayport still won't work. (it either comes down to an implementation issue in the dongle, or a driver/software issue in the OS) I don' use that, I use the HDMI out here, but there is a caution on Apple's website that the TB2/IUSBC dongle alone will not work for displays. I called Apple to discuss this and pointed out I have a lab full of thunderbolt displays and that turning a room of $1,000 displays into pumpkins wasn't something I found amusing. They didn't have any solutions for me at the time though.