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The displays don't actually run over thunderbolt, they just share the (mini displayport) connector so there's no need to worry about losing bandwidth.



That is not entirely accurate, the DP signal can be embedded in a TB stream (like on the Apple TB Display, where the actual signal in the TB cable is TB data) but a TB device can demux the DP data and output DP data in the DP/TB connector. The DP data actually uses pars of the total available bandwidth with Thunderbolt 2 since there is no dedicated 10 Gbit channel for video data as with classic Thunderbolt.




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