Awesome video @ruslan120 - I'm very impressed by your ergonomic monitor setup.
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M1 Macs Able to Run Up to Six External Displays Using DisplayLink
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I’ve been using displaylink on my 2015 13“ MBP, up to Mojave.
While performance was ok for Text, it rendered ‚unlock with Apple watch‘ inoperative because of some AirPlay shenanigans that are needed to make it work.
does unlocking with the watch work under Big Sur/M1?
While performance was ok for Text, it rendered ‚unlock with Apple watch‘ inoperative because of some AirPlay shenanigans that are needed to make it work.
does unlocking with the watch work under Big Sur/M1?
Differrence maybe for "graphics professionals", not much for the other ones.
Show me a low-end notebook then not supporting dual external displays in the price range of the Air. Apple not selling cheap laptops doesn't mean they can get away with missing functionality with the cover of calling it entry level.
Wrong. It couldn’t be any more entry level.
In fact, despite how incredibly powerful it is, it’s Apple’s bottom of the line notebook!
Isn’t it amazing to see these three entry-level machines Apple just introduced offer so much performance? It is mind-blowing to call them entry level, I get it... but they are!
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I had tried to use 1 external monitor before with my intel MBP. It was very flaky. It seemed like when the machine would go into sleep mode, and upon waking it, the external display wouldn't come on and I'd have to reconnect it to get it to work again. Is this another weird Apple bug that is an ongoing issue?
All three are entry-level devices. The MacBook AIR, the two TB3 13” PRO and the MacBook mini.
You can easily run two 4k monitors from the Mac mini without any trickery. From the Mac mini Technical Specifications page on the Apple web site... "One display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz connected via Thunderbolt and one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz connected via HDMI 2.0"
When did 'pro user' became the synonym of working with graphics at any level?
Honestly I'd pick half the performance with twice the monitor support. And even the Intel ones weren't low-end.
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Why is that a problem for you? iPhones shoot 4K video... so it’s not unreasonable for people to want to be able to edit them in their Mac without stuttering? Thankfully any of the M1 Macs have no issues doing so without any hint of stuttering.
I have two 27" monitors - only 1080p plugged into display port and my 2013 MBP runs them all day, but I've stuck at El Cap - not sure if that makes a difference
I have a 1920x1200 portrait monitor waiting for the Mac Mini. Could you share more details on the problem?
User needs differ, no doubt.
You’d probably be floored to know the huge percentage of notebook owners who have never even connected one external monitor to their MacBook, let alone two or three. 60%? 70%? More?
Apple obviously knew the current M1 didn’t satisfy the needs of more demanding pros, because they left the higher-end Intel MBP and Intel mini configs on sale.
Eh, DisplayLink is old and has always been glitchy and undesirable. Have to be careful buying USB-C docks to make sure they don't require DisplayLink. If you _really_ want the 6 displays, I guess go ahead, no other choice.
The same probably goes for 4K/8K videos, yet most of you seem to be obsessed with it.
Or programmers. I use 3-4 displays at all my computers. One for coding, one for logs, one for whatever I am developing and one for docs/google. I usually also have the ipad open with a todo list and/or google chat.
this is great news. Second to the fact that my m1 mbp delivery date was just shifted from Dec 14 to Nov 27!
Yes. Boobs.There’s only one thing I remember about swordfish. Well, two actually
Compilers?
Push and let the build server handle compiling, running tests, etc... it seems infrequent that I want to compile locally - certainly no reason to run six compiles at the same time locally...
This Big Sur version is different as the Framebuffer driver code is written and supported by Apple. Display Link doesn't install a kernel driver anymore but merely drives the FB from non-kernel memory. It's very stable.
Not me 🙂I haven’t edited video since the 90s. I didn’t even know 8k was a thing lol.
Comparing on price, the MacBook Air is not an entry level device. I would put it more in the start of the high end.
As far as in the Apple ecosystem, Apple’s entry level computing device is the iPad at $300 followed by the IPad Air. After that you have a choice between the MacBooks and iPad pros depending on your needs.
I went and got the the base MacBook Air M1 since I didn’t feel like paying the Apple tax for memory or a fan. I testing it out to see if it will fit my workflow.
As far as displays, I was and still am worried about missing a display.
My display setup before was the LG 5K and an LG 27 inch 4K. I still have two displays if you count the built in display of the Air.
I actually prefer the smaller Air display over the bigger one because it is a Retina display and looks way better.
Now, when I get my second LG 5K display, that is when I would be mad about only one display support. Hopefully by then Apple has released the 16 inch version with support for more displays.
As far as in the Apple ecosystem, Apple’s entry level computing device is the iPad at $300 followed by the IPad Air. After that you have a choice between the MacBooks and iPad pros depending on your needs.
I went and got the the base MacBook Air M1 since I didn’t feel like paying the Apple tax for memory or a fan. I testing it out to see if it will fit my workflow.
As far as displays, I was and still am worried about missing a display.
My display setup before was the LG 5K and an LG 27 inch 4K. I still have two displays if you count the built in display of the Air.
I actually prefer the smaller Air display over the bigger one because it is a Retina display and looks way better.
Now, when I get my second LG 5K display, that is when I would be mad about only one display support. Hopefully by then Apple has released the 16 inch version with support for more displays.