According to rumors Apple might announce the Studio Display 2 next week. My 10+ years old Dell monitor is dying, so I might be interested, but I’m a bit worried about the USB-C only aspect of the current Studio Display.
Can I connect old PCs with DVI/HDMI to a Studio Display using adapters?
Or are such adapters/dongles/cables unidirectional and only available in the “opposite direction”?
Seems to be a case of it depends. Connecting a gaming PC to Apple Studio Display | justin․searls․co The next Studio Display may also have an entirely different input setup.
Seems to be way less “easy” than I hoped…
If Apple indeed releases a new Studio Display (with also only USB-C ports, because what else would you need for Mac/iPad/iPhone) I have to decide whether I want this or should buy a third-party 5K monitor.
(In practice I hardly ever use those old PCs, so maybe time to dump them?)
To be clear, the Studio Display connects over Thunderbolt 3. It supports DisplayPort 1.4. The three ‘hub’ ports on the back are 10 Gbit USB ports.
I usually have mine connected to a CalDigit Thunderbolt hub, which in turn I connect to my MacBook Pro. But when I am working from home, as I am today, I yank the Thunderbolt cable out of the hub and plug it directly into my Lenovo ThinkPad’s Thunderbolt 4 port. (It also accepts power through the monitor.)
I would think if you can adapt DVI to DisplayPort 1.4 then it should work. However, the ThinkPad I have replaced a similar-vintage HP laptop which had anaemic graphics that could not hack the resolution of the Studio Display. The difference between the HP and Lenovo — Intel versus AMD. The Lenovo has no dedicated graphics card — just the ‘on-chip’ stuff.