![]() ![]() The intensity box won't work it's a capture/playthrough device, not a transcoder to thunderbolt. thunderbolt in -> hdmi out with and without hdmi output support on the thunderbolt computer of course, but that's not what's needed. There's plenty of options for going the other way, i.e. This particular monitor has no backwards compatible input options, either as separate sockets or multipurpose socket - it's literally thunderbolt in or nothing, it won't take plain mini displayport. A simple cable certainly won't cut it you'd need to modern equivalent of the VGA -> HDMI scan converters, with the active electronics to fake a thunderbolt output. Thunderbolt is a combination of displayport and pci express in one serial signal though it uses the same socket as mini displayport, it's not electrically backwards compatible with VGA, DVI/HDMI or displayport - it's specifically designed for high bandwidth pci-e based data connections, with display port video as only one part. ![]() the thunderbolt OUT (passthrough) not the thunderbolt IN. mac thunderbolt port -> thunderbolt monitor -> mini DP monitor. That ars technica article is about adding a 2nd mini displayport screen at the end of the chain, i.e.
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