Daisy-chaining monitors on Chromebooks via MST currently being tested for upcoming hardware

If you frequently use your laptop with more than one external display, there's a feature called MST (or Multi-Stream Transport) that conveniently allows you to use just one cable to connect them all to your computer, rather than two or three. Up until now Chrome OS hasn't supported MST, but based on a recent commit to the Chromium Gerrit, that could change.

MST isn't a new technology by any means, it was introduced with the nearly decade-old DisplayPort v1.2 spec, though daisy-chaining displays together probably isn't common practice among general consumers.

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