Best dock set up for apple studio

[petemurphy]

so have a new office i need to kit out that is mac based. ideally they want mac studio monitors as they look the coolest. But i need them to use ethernet. seems the studio doesnt have an rj45. dell have cool hub monitors that have them built in. whats the coolest money no issue way of having studio monitors and macs but with ethernet connection? was trying to avoid a dock as its messy - want it as clean as possible.

amazed apple dont have a solution as macs are used for big files so would think they need ethernet yet people who want macs want aesthetics?

thanks

[NoTreadLeft]

The neatest solution I've seen is the Belkin USB-C to 2.5Gb Ethernet Adapter that Apple sell. Would be interested to hear of any better solutions as I have a few of these monitors.

Edited in case it's not obvious: the adapter + ethernet just stays plugged into one of the USB-C ports on the back of the monitor.

Edited by NoTreadLeft on Wednesday 21st January 17:36

[Captain_Morgan]

Mac Studio have a built in 10Gbe port, did you mean an other device?

If you mean a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro how fast a interface do you need and what device are you planning to use?

Edited by Captain_Morgan on Wednesday 21st January 18:00

[AndyTR]

Ok, so assuming they all have Macs with a max 96W max power requirement then I would connect the ethernet to the display using the Anker PowerExpand USB C to 2.5 Gbps Ethernet Adapter, most other adapters will not give gb ethernet and could be limited to as little as 100mb/s. Then the user just needs to connect the MacBook via the thunderbolt cable to the rear of the display (data, display and power), so have a cable connected on the desk ready for them to plug into. This will be the most minimalist solution.

This setup should work for nearly all Macs, you may have an odd user with say a 2021 16inch MacBook Pro (140W) and they'll need to use their MagSafe charger to charge the Mac.

[NoTreadLeft]

Captain_Morgan said:

Mac Studio have a built in 10Gbe port, did you mean an other device?

I assumed because of the "dock" reference that we are really talking about MacBooks & Studio Monitors here, not Macs. Otherwise it doesn't make a lot of sense.

[AndyTR]

Captain_Morgan said:

Mac Studio have a built in 10Gbe port, did you mean an other device?

If you mean a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro how fast a interface do you need and what device are you planning to use?

Edited by Captain_Morgan on Wednesday 21st January 18:00

The Mac Studio Monitor doesn't, it has One upstream Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) port for host (with 96W host charging) and three downstream USB-C ports (up to 10Gb/s) for connecting peripherals, storage, and networking