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I used an M1 Air docked with displaylink for about 8 months. 1. The Displaylink software heats the machine lightly in the background, and it just gets worse wi
by agloeregrets 4y ago
I used an M1 Air docked with displaylink for about 8 months.
1. The Displaylink software heats the machine lightly in the background, and it just gets worse with resolution.
2. The Adaptor is unreliable and can do some really wonky stuff around dock and undock due to Apple's locked USB policies.
3. The old series of Adaptors do not support 4K60, so if you plan on using it with a 4K display, you need to pony up on costs.
Assuming we see more ~$1600 sales on the M1 Pro 14 inch, that is easily $300 more computer than a $1299 M2 macbook pro.
- andrewia 4y agoNot to mention DisplayLink can be broken by MacOS updates. Tunneling video over USB was a clever hack back in the day, but with USB-C and TB3/USB4 docks, things are much less software-dependent.