The company claims that users can add a mix of up to five Thunderbolt devices, three USB devices, and two monitors with the miniStack STX depending on the host device.
In between the Thunderbolt ports and the exhaust, users will find the 20V DC power connection. At a glance, you may also think the device has some USB-A connections as well but alas, that slot is simply for the exhaust. While the front and sides of the device are rather minimal, the rear of the enclosure is where you will will find the four USB-C (Thunderbolt) ports for connectivity expansion of the Mac.
The device itself is available for $299 for the empty enclosure or it can be customized at the time of purchase with up to 8TB of SSD storage and 18TB of HDD storage. The miniStack STX features a universal SATA HDD/SSD bay and an NVMe M.2 PCIe SSD slot that is easy to access for upgrades and maintenance, three Thunderbolt (USB-C) ports (four if you count the one needed to connect to the Mac mini) for device connections such as keyboards, hard drives, card readers, displays, A/V mixers, cameras, and tablets. But it doesn’t have everything a photographer might need, and that’s where the miniStack STX comes in.Ĭontrary to most new products released by Apple, the OWC miniStack STX is designed to be customized and upgraded as users’ needs change over time. It’s the best Mac for photographers, especially considering how affordable it is. When the MacBook Pro is plugged into the OWC Hub instead of the M1 Mac Mini, everything works as expected - the system recognizes and uses both monitors as external displays.Even though Apple just released the new Mac Studio, we at PetaPixel believe that most photographers are going to be best served by the M1-powered Mac mini that was released last year. Plugging USB-C cable going to Monitor 2 back to the OWC Hub after that doesn't change the layout. If I unplug the USB-C cable going to the Monitor 2 from the Hub, macOS reconfigures itself to route DisplayPort over USB-C to Monitor 1 and HDMI to Monitor 2 (this is the desired state). Switching inputs on Monitor 2 shows the different macOS spaces of the same machine (the M1 Mac Mini). When I plug the M1 Mac Mini to the OWC Hub with a Thunderbolt 4 cable (came with the Hub), macOS recognizes two external displays but route both HDMI and DisplayPort over USB-C signals to the same display - Monitor 2.
Two Dell U2720Q/U2720QM monitors (supports video signal from USB-C, HDMI & DisplayPort).I'm trying to find a solution to switching external monitors between an M1 Mac mini and an Intel MacBook Pro by replugging a single Thunderbolt cable.
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