What if when I got the 5K display I could use it AND my Apple Cinema Display at the same time? Yes, I needed a command center like the ones they used to run the Apollo Missions. I’d been a very good girl last year and I was pretty sure I would get the display. My solution was to ask Santa Steve for the LG UltraFine 5K display for Christmas.

it’s really pixelated on my elderly low-resolution display.

In spite of my optometrist’s best efforts, you’ll you’ll still see me peering at my display and saying things like, “Is that an i or a 1?” I even use the zoom accessibility features of macOS and I still can’t tell them apart. Unfortunately, Allison’s eyes aren’t as good as the day she got them. My Apple Cinema Display is four years old and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, and in fact looks as great as the day I got it. Now that I’ve brought you all up to speed on the history, let’s finally talk about the new problem to be solved.

That meant I only had to unplug two things to pull my Mac off my desk: the power cable and the dock cable. It worked great though, I was able to run my Apple Cinema Display and plug in USB devices to the dock as well. In order to use the Thunderbolt 2 dock from Belkin, I had to get the Apple Thunderbolt 2 to USB-C adapter to connect the Mac to the dock. My solution I described over a year ago was to use the Belkin Thunderbolt 2 Express Dock that we had lying around, (The project I purchased it for never panned out.) I can’t complain though because I received it as a free replacement under AppleCare when my 24” Apple Cinema Display wouldn’t work with my new-at-the-time 2013 MacBook Pro. The problem is that my display is the very last of the Display Port models, right before they came out with the Thunderbolt model. Specifically, there was no adapter available to allow me to use my 27” Apple Cinema Display with the new Mac. I did a post back then about how there were some unexpected challenges with that new machine with my existing hardware. It’s got the new fangled USB-C ports that carry Thunderbolt 3. In November of 2016, I got the Touch Bar MacBook Pro.

Thunderbolt 2 dock macbook pro