It's accurate. The Studio Display connects the same way as the Apple XDR Display and the newer revisions of the LG 5k Ultrafine, and you can read dozens of pages of people trying different ways to get things working.
The problems are…
- Very, very few Nvidia or ATI cards have USB-C video out. They seemed to stop caring when VR failed to take off a couple years ago.
- So you're left using DisplayPort-to-USBC — but have to find a high-bandwidth DP 1.4 cable. Many of these are incorrectly marked or advertised.
- HDMI to DisplayPort/USB-C is a whole other game I won't cover here.
- even with the DisplayPort working, you cannot control screen brightness or get audio without a USB signal
- which can be solved with some very esoteric Wacom and Belkin VR devices
- but which appear to not run a fast enough USB spec to be useful with the new Studio Display due to all its A13-driven weirdness
- also some setups may require a USB signal to even turn on? I'm a little unclear on this mark.
I've been through several of these hoops trying to get the earlier, TB-only LG 5k working with anything beyond a MacBook, so I've been watching these discussions with interest.
The problems are…
- Very, very few Nvidia or ATI cards have USB-C video out. They seemed to stop caring when VR failed to take off a couple years ago.
- So you're left using DisplayPort-to-USBC — but have to find a high-bandwidth DP 1.4 cable. Many of these are incorrectly marked or advertised.
- HDMI to DisplayPort/USB-C is a whole other game I won't cover here.
- even with the DisplayPort working, you cannot control screen brightness or get audio without a USB signal
- which can be solved with some very esoteric Wacom and Belkin VR devices
- but which appear to not run a fast enough USB spec to be useful with the new Studio Display due to all its A13-driven weirdness
- also some setups may require a USB signal to even turn on? I'm a little unclear on this mark.
I've been through several of these hoops trying to get the earlier, TB-only LG 5k working with anything beyond a MacBook, so I've been watching these discussions with interest.