See our comparison of the 13in MacBook Pro (M1) vs MacBook Pro (Intel) and MacBook Air (M1 Silicon) vs MacBook Air (Intel). They received rave reviews for their speed improvements over Intel-based laptops, including here on Macworld.
External displays: M1 and M2 Macs’ big problemĪpple’s Mac mini, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro 13in were the first Macs to feature the Apple-designed M1 CPU. M1/M2 owners, start saving for a new MacBook Pro or read on. Laptops with the M1 Pro can connect to up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz, while MacBooks with the M1 Max can connect to three external displays with up to 6K resolution and one external display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz. If you waited for Apple’s latest 14in or 16in M1 Pro M1 Max MacBook Pro models, you are in luck as these laptops do support multiple external displays. The hardware solution involves a dual-HDMI adapter that requires a little tinkering in System Preferences at setup. And you will likely have to buy at least one adapter, where previously a dock plus a display cable per external screen would have sufficed.
With the software workaround, there are some risks involved as you will be required to install third-party drivers, and these might later be unsupported by future updates of the macOS. There’s a software driver plus hardware adapter workaround and a hub or adapter workaround. However, there are ways around this M1/M2 limitation, allowing you to run two external displays off an M1 MacBook, which we will outline here. We hoped the M2 would lose the M1 limitation, but it survives on the plain M2 when available, expect the M2 Pro and M2 Max to support more displays, just like their M1 siblings.
The M1 Pro and M1 Max do support multiple external displays. Apple’s range of MacBooks that use the company’s own Silicon M1 or M2 processors cannot natively connect more than one external monitor, which is a massive limitation on the previous Intel-based generation of Mac laptops that could run two displays when connected to a USB-C or Thunderbolt 3 docking station or hub.
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