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I have this for my m1 pro: https://a.co/d/gD5q8G3 https://a.co/d/gD5q8G3 It uses the 6950 DisplayLink chip, which can do 4K@60Hz. It's 90 dollars and drives
by bloopernova 3y ago
I have this for my m1 pro:
https://a.co/d/gD5q8G3 https://a.co/d/gD5q8G3
It uses the 6950 DisplayLink chip, which can do 4K@60Hz.
It's 90 dollars and drives 2 screens.
Software is less good. I had to enable Rosetta2 to get the pkg to install. Then you have to boot to recovery mode to allow signed 3rd party drivers. And you get a creepy notice that someone is watching your screen, which is how the display driver works.
Performance is pretty good, just a bit laggy on mouse movement.
- heyoni 3y agoIs that because the screen generation is software based? I noticed that when using display link and couldn’t bare the input lag or worse the compression from moving a window too rapidly. Switched to a monitor with thunderbolt output and my coworkers thought I was being a diva.
- Ographer 3y agoMy understand is that yes, the external displays are both rendered by the CPU and so there are lower frame rates and frames dropped which is a concern of mine since I am pushing this computer to its limits with some applications I run. I've heard that for casual use it isn't too noticeable. Unfortunately I don't think the M1 Air supports TB daisy chaining unless you're ok with mirrored displays. I still can't decide if I want to ask my job for a new computer, a new dock, or new displays lol.
- mmcnl 3y agomacOS doesn't support daisy chaining, and never has. You can't use daisy chaining with any Mac. It's weird, it's stupid, but it's true. That's the sole reason the dock market is so complicated.
- freeAgent 3y agoYeah, it's definitely not as good as native, but it's not bad. One other significant restriction for DisplayLink is that it's unable to display DRMed video content.
- Ographer 3y agoThanks, I'll probably end up trying this!