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There are _still_ some "new" macbooks sold which only support 1 external monitor. Which honestly would have been ridiculous 10 years ago not even speaking about
by dathinab 3y ago
There are _still_ some "new" macbooks sold which only support 1 external monitor. Which honestly would have been ridiculous 10 years ago not even speaking about now.
Then even with a newest M3 model apples somehow assumes that external monitors with less resolution then 6k don't exist hence anything but MAX models only supports 2 external monitors even if they are all 1080p. Through to be fair 3+ external monitor setups aren't that common with larger/higher resolution monitors.
And issues with dasy chaining monitors seem somewhat common, but that's hearsay so maybe not true.
- kayodelycaon 3y agoThe limitation on the number of external monitors is due to the number of display controllers on the chip. Apparently they take up a considerable amount of space on the die. The base M chips only have 2. They made a technical trade off that we are all paying for. It is unlikely they will ever fix it. :( Daisy chaining monitors via thunderbolt has always had problems since it came out. Some monitors just don’t play nice with each other.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoIt's not a benchmark to bludgeon PC users with so nobody cares. My Thinkpad from 2013 supports 3 external displays.