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I think it is mostly to differentiate the air from the pro. Evey professional needs 2 display monitors and the air can't do that. The air is however perfectly c
by ab_testing 4y ago
I think it is mostly to differentiate the air from the pro. Evey professional needs 2 display monitors and the air can't do that. The air is however perfectly capable of handling day to day coding tasks. If it supported 2 monitors, it would have effectively cannabalized the pro line.
- olliej 4y agoDid you actually look at the link, or simply decide that the only possibility is malicious? "Because Apple's display controllers are so fancypants that the M1 Max has more silicon dedicated to display controllers than CPU cores." or later in the thread: "One display controller is larger than 2 PCPU cores with enough to spare to cover the ECPUs too."
- jurmous 4y agoI code daily as a job and am perfectly fine with one external screen. So not every professional needs 2 display monitors.
- fredley 4y agoI'm surprised too. Built in + one external is what I've had most of my career. For a brief period I had two external and it was hell because OSX would switch them round on every wake from sleep.
- zimpenfish 4y agoI've been coding professionally since 1996 and I've used external screens for maybe 24 months of that (mostly pre-2000). Almost all of it has been single desktop screen or laptop.
- varispeed 4y agoI had a moment in my career using 5 screens for development. Then I learned how to use virtual desktops and never even looked for a second monitor since.
- olliej 4y agoSame, I can't stand multiple displays, and I spend a good amount time trying to adjust to it. I would always rather a single display to having to move my head around all the time. I do think for many folk laptops have a piss poor screen res so I can understand using an external display if you have the option in such a case, but still not two for software dev.