This is probably the most exciting MacBook Pro accessory right now, but it’s missing a crucial feature

Guess however galore times Apple mentioned the word 8K erstwhile it launched its astir powerful mobile workstation, the MacBook Pro, in October 2021? Not three, 5 oregon adjacent ten, but eleven times successful all.

The epoch of 4K post-production seems to beryllium simply a stepping chromatic to thing bigger successful Apple’s eyes. And it is truthful disappointing that 1 of the astir breathtaking MacBook Pro accessories astir lacks the quality to tally at 8K resolution implicit HDMI.

Targus’ Hyper Triple 4K show dock for MacBook Pro launched lone a fewer days ago, but has already smashed its extremity connected crowdfunding level Indiegogo. More than 2,100 backers person poured astir $360,000 into the task truthful far.

Two versions are available: a 13-to-14inch exemplary (HD134) for $124 and a 13-to-16inch exemplary (HD136) for $149, some with a 50% Early Bird discount that’s apt to extremity wrong 24 hours.

A missed opportunity?

What makes this USB-C adaptor special is its quality to turn by snapping connected a magnetic hub for compatible MacBook Pro devices. Fully loaded, it tin thrust three 4K monitors (it has 3 HDMI and 3 DP connectors, but you tin lone usage fractional of them). There’s besides 3 USB Type-C connectors (one with 100W powerfulness delivery), 3 USB Type-A ports, a Gigabit Ethernet larboard and 2 paper readers. Sadly, nary Thunderbolt ports, of immoderate ilk.

While it doesn’t necessitate immoderate drivers, you inactive request to connect not 1 but 3 USB Type-C cables to it. We haven’t tested the MacBook Pro with an 8K monitor or 8K television, but the information the slowest of the 2021 MacBook Pros tin thrust two Pro Display XDR professional monitors (each with conscionable implicit 20.3 cardinal pixels) puts that script successful the “very likely” category.

The occupation is not that the dock doesn’t enactment 8K, it does. But it doesn’t enactment 8K connected the close larboard (i.e. HDMI). Right now, there’s lone 1 viable 8K show connected the market, the Dell Ultrasharp UP3218K, which is lone compatible with DisplayPort.

On the different hand, there’s astatine slightest twelve 8K televisions, with a mates of them bully capable to beryllium utilized arsenic secondary productivity displays. The occupation is that they have HDMI 2.1 ports, not DisplayPort, and the newly-reintroduced HDMI larboard connected the caller MacBook Pro lone supports HDMI 2.0.

One mode of circumventing the occupation would beryllium to usage a bundled (but not built-in) converter that transforms the video awesome from DisplayPort to HDMI. But that mightiness beryllium difficult.

Instead, we conscionable anticipation determination volition beryllium more 8K monitors with HDMI and DisplayPort launched successful 2022. And fixed that the Pro Display XDR is turning 3 adjacent year, we wouldn’t beryllium amazed if Apple gives it a refresh with an 8K exemplary for the 2022 iteration.

source: https://www.techradar.com/news/qualcomm-wants-to-become-the-preferred-platform-for-pcs-over-intel-and-apple-m1

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