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You could do 2x 4K displays with compression over a DisplayLink dock. Probably fine for UI stuff, maybe for video, not great for gaming. The newer 14" and 16"

You could do 2x 4K displays with compression over a DisplayLink dock. Probably fine for UI stuff, maybe for video, not great for gaming. The newer 14" and 16" models would drive them natively (or 2x 6K + 1x 4K with the higher end SoC) but then it's not much of a fair comparison by price. The single external display limit is only on the basic "M1" processor and not any of the Pro/Max/Ultra followups. https://danielcompton.net/apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-display https://danielcompton.net/apple-m1-displaylink-multiple-disp...

AdamJacobMuller 5y ago
The latency on DisplayLink drives me crazy. Completely unusable for me, unfortunately, it's become difficult to find docks which don't use DisplayLink :/
- acomjean 5y ago
  Display link as far as I can tell is a weak video card on a usb connector. Does anyone else make something like that? I used one with a white plastic MacBook to get 2 displays. I have a new on for my Linux notebook. It works well, but there is a little latency. For writing code/ web browsing it’s fine for me.
- shmoogy 5y ago
  Have you tried it on m1? I'm running a 4k at 60hz and 3440x1440 at 75hz and they are fine - I don't think I notice any latency issues at all
mciancia 5y ago
Displaylink and/or macOS does not support scaling on hidpi displays for some reason so it's not a good alternative :(