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by ianhowson 1889 days ago
It won't work with the LG Ultrafine 5k, which requires a Thunderbolt connection to run at full resolution, and behind-the-scenes is a tiled pair of DP1.2 displays.

It ought to work with a DisplayPort 1.4 5k, though there aren't many of those.

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Thanks. So as far as I can tell, that ridiculously expensive switch is still the only option (if even, I wasn't able to fully confirm), and nowhere near worth the cost vs. just physically swapping the cable between computers.