Comment by MBCook
15 hours ago
The thing I heard was always killing them was the ports coming loose from people plugging and unplugging things all the time.
Could it have been that you were plugging and unplugging the MacBook?
Obviously that should totally work. I don’t know what I heard is correct, but I got the impression if you plugged a Mac in and just left it there it would be fine.
>The thing I heard was always killing them was the ports coming loose from people plugging and unplugging things all the time.
I think it's the heat generated around the connector which causes the problems.
I usually left the monitor-to-MBP cable plugged in, but I did have some minor finicky connection issues at one point. But that was nothing compared to the monitor actually dying.
The monitor setup seemed like the ideal solution, less cables and just plug in to the monitor. But the combination of heat from powering the monitor, MBP, the monitor itself, and hot weather does seem like a plausible cause to me.