What equipment to buy to buy to connect peripherals to a poppy?

Question

Iron

I'm completely confused (I want to connect to a Mac (m1, 2 type-c connectors in total) 2 monitors (HDMI + DisplayPort (Important!)) + keyboard and mouse. I don't understand what I need, or a docking station, if it is, What kind? Or an ordinary adapter. The price range confuses why some docking stations cost 20k+ each, and adapters in which the same number of connectors, or maybe more, can cost around 1000r? What is the difference and what to take?

ps Most of all, I'm worried about connecting 2 monitors via HDMI and DisplayPort cables, what kind of converters / adapters are needed?

Answer 1

I bought a targus docking station (with a DisplayLink chip) with monitor output (2 DisplayPort inputs and 2 hdmi inputs). Both monitors, keyboard, mouse and internet cable are connected to it, then it is already connected to the poppy and everything works fine.
Of the nuances:
1) I bought a cheap adapter from usb to type-c (the output of the docking station is only usb) - because of it (I suppose) there are frame rate drops on monitors, slowdowns.
2) You need to buy a kvm switch so that you can connect a computer and a poppy to it and quickly switch between them.
3) A huge ton of adapters and cables.
4) I don't know if I can get used to working on MacOS with a regular keyboard and mouse, it's quite difficult :c

Answer 2

If there is no Thunderbolt, then only the USB option remains. Good and inexpensive ones are produced by Baseus, they have an official store on aliexpress.
As far as I remember, m1 does not know how to use 2 monitors (well, more precisely, 2 different monitors, if you display the same picture on them, then it works).

The price range is confusing

Expensive - based on thunderbolt. First, there is a license fee. Secondly - for many there is also an extra charge "for apple". Thirdly, they have a lot of their devices inside. Let's say I have a usb adapter on my desk, with DisplayPort, Ethernet and several USB type-a. Because the adapter itself is usb'shny - its usb connectors are "native", DisplayPort is also transmitted via usb, but in order for ethernet to work there, a network card is soldered inside the adapter itself. In the case of thunderbolt, there are a lot of things soldered inside, and this increases the cost.