But - and I can't believe I forgot this in my other reply - this is one thing that really grinds my gears about Apple's releases since 2018, on everything excep

But - and I can't believe I forgot this in my other reply - this is one thing that really grinds my gears about Apple's releases since 2018, on everything except the Mac Pro (both 2019 and 2023). They hard-code one DisplayPort stream to *something* other than Thunderbolt. On laptops, they hard-code one via eDP to the display, which is useless if it's in clamshell mode. On Mac Mini, Mac Studio, and the MacBook Pro with HDMI port, one stream from the GPU is hard-coded to the HDMI port. If you want maximum displays, always has to be from HDMI. But neither the 2019 or 2023 Mac Pro have this limitation. Even on the 2019 model where the HDMI ports were physically on the card - they could route all video streams via system TB3 ports. I just checked and the base M2 Mini, and the M2 Pro MBP seem to finally allow using two video streams over the TB4 ports, - but the M2 Ultra Studio, with the exact same SoC as the M2 Ultra Mac Pro, still has this stupid artificial limit.