A second MacBook Air.I have a Macbook Air M2 and 2 Apple Studio Displays. What do I need to drive both studio displays with the Macbook Air M2?
I've actually got Macbook Pro 14 M1 and Macbook Pro 16 M2 but prefer the Air M2 as my actually workload is light I just need to view multiple things at once for the line of work I am in. So wanted to get rid of the Pros and just keep the Air as it handles everything I throw at it besides the dual monitor issue.
I've actually got Macbook Pro 14 M1 and Macbook Pro 16 M2 but prefer the Air M2 as my actually workload is light I just need to view multiple things at once for the line of work I am in. So wanted to get rid of the Pros and just keep the Air as it handles everything I throw at it besides the dual monitor issue.
I got it to work with MBA M2 and DisplayLink - all ports work as well.I have a Macbook Air M2 and 2 Apple Studio Displays. What do I need to drive both studio displays with the Macbook Air M2?
Then what's handling DisplayLink? You need some sort of supported hub or dock. Are you sure you actually have an M2 MBA and not an M2 Pro MBP?View attachment 2251333I am not using a dock, I just plug the displays into both ports and run everything else off the ports on the Studio Display. You don’t get full TB4 speed but it works for me.
But this makes no sense because even Apple themselves say the M2 Air's only support a single external monitor. And the ASD doesn't support Displaylink. The other ports don't run at TB3 speeds either...Like I said, plug both Studio Displays directly into each of the TB4 on the MBA, I use the hub built into the ASD and connect a USB3 hub and Time machine drive into that. With this setup I have 6 free USBC ports, 3 on each ASD. Works fine at TB3 speeds but I don’t need 40GBs
I'm not confused at all. You need some sort of dock/hub/adapter/device that supports DisplayLink. Even the article you linked talks about that. I'm trying to understand how you claim to be doing what you're doing because it makes no sense. You can't just plug in two monitors to a M1/M2 MBA and have it work. And no, installing the displaylink driver is not enough. You need hardware.You seem to be in a logic loop. DisplayLink is not Apple, it is a 3rd party solution and it works fine in the ASD-MBA-ASD configuration with full 5K. If you only want to rely on "official Apple solutions" then you will not be running two displays on your MBA.
Can you please clarify this statement?Like I said, plug both Studio Displays directly into each of the TB4 on the MBA, I use the hub built into the ASD and connect a USB3 hub and Time machine drive into that. With this setup I have 6 free USBC ports, 3 on each ASD. Works fine at TB3 speeds but I don’t need 40GBs
They said both displays are plugged in directly to the Macbook. If you are referring to that white box on the photo, that cannot work as that is plugged in to a downstream port on the Studio Display. The input port is the rightmost one.But it’s not plugged in directly… you can see in the photo the displaylink adapter.