Great, apple gives them the option to support that w/Pro or Max chips, or with the base chip using DisplayLink.
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Macs With M3 Chip Still Officially Support Only a Single External Display
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I've moved away from dual monitor. ANd never needed triple monitor. I agree it's a bit ridiculous to limit the monitors that can be used. But fortunately for me I've moved away from that. My Windows PC I use an ultrawide. My Mac Mini M2 I use my 65" TV. and use the multiple desktop feature. And I just ordered an MacBook Pro M3 Pro 14". To replace my Mini. In my mind I'll now have dual monitor. 65" as primary, with the macbook pro native display as secondary for messages, documents, Apple Music/3rdparty music app, etc.
Why does Apple provide use cases for M3 MacBook Pro that are anything but content consumption?
Gotcha there.
My apologies then, I'm sure Apple has very good reason why it's withholding a simple thing like multi-monitor support on their shiniest new computers with their shiniest best ever processors that command the highest price tag in the industry. Let's all excuse Apple and give them more money, clearly they need the cash for more R&D so people can connect more than one monitor to their computer. It's a complex thing to solve, Nvidia and AMD just got lucky doing so decades ago, so we can't use them as an example... that's unfair! RIGHT?!See, this is the type of nonsense that now passes for hipster wisdom here on MacRumors now.
According to this, Apple has become a 3 trillion dollar company by not giving a rat's ass.
Sorry, but you’re wrong. Dual displays are becoming the norm in business.
Old & irrelevant News, for the M3 MacBook Pro Consumer, get a M3 Pro if you want 2 displays and if you want more than 2, get a Max
Macs equipped with the standard M3 chip still support only one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz, according to Apple's tech specs. So far, the chip is available in the entry-level 14-inch MacBook Pro and the 24-inch iMac.
This limitation has existed since the first Apple silicon Macs with the M1 chip were released in 2020, but users can connect multiple external displays to M1, M2, and M3 Macs with DisplayLink adapters as an unofficial workaround. One exception is the Mac mini, which will likely be updated with the M3 chip next year and should retain support for up to two external displays, given that it lacks a built-in display.
The higher-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models support up to two external displays with the M3 Pro chip, and up to four with the M3 Max chip.
M3 chip display support:M3 Pro chip display support:
M3 Max chip display support:The new MacBook Pro models are now available to order, and most configurations will begin arriving to customers and launch in stores on Tuesday, November 7. M3 Max configurations will be available later in November.
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MacOS with 8GB RAM can drive two 6K displays for sure, but you will lose 2-4Gb RAM just for that.
And cheap Chromebooks and Windows laptops do it for way less. Talk about being an Apple apologist.
I think Mac users just don't get what a engineer in IT needs. Well just get a 6K monitor or a ultrawide blah blah.
Show me on a ultrawide two fullscreen RDP sessions I'll wait.
I can easily have three fullscreen RDP sessions open on my laptop hooked up to two 2k monitors.
RDP in any kind of windowed mode is crippled because commands are sent to the host and not the remote machine.
Try to RDP to a Server 2012 Jumpserver then from that server RDP to a 2012 Application server on a 6K screen and see how well scaling works.
And no when 90% of my work is performed on remote machines I don't need the extra horsepower on a M3 Pro I just need screens.
When Apple/Microsoft/Linux Distros let you cut a single Physical Display into multiple logical displays we can talk.
All the software crud you all cling to just makes windows size correctly in box. Anything that requires a full display (fullscreen) sees the full display. The only way to fix that is for the OS to actually see a Ultrawide/4K/6K display as however many smaller screens. Then you would have borderless multiple screens like people falsely claim they have.
If I could fullscreen 4 RDP sessions on a single 4K monitor I would gladly dump multiple screens. That means the os sees the 4K screen logically as four monitors with native resolution.
Show me on a ultrawide two fullscreen RDP sessions I'll wait.
I can easily have three fullscreen RDP sessions open on my laptop hooked up to two 2k monitors.
RDP in any kind of windowed mode is crippled because commands are sent to the host and not the remote machine.
Try to RDP to a Server 2012 Jumpserver then from that server RDP to a 2012 Application server on a 6K screen and see how well scaling works.
And no when 90% of my work is performed on remote machines I don't need the extra horsepower on a M3 Pro I just need screens.
When Apple/Microsoft/Linux Distros let you cut a single Physical Display into multiple logical displays we can talk.
All the software crud you all cling to just makes windows size correctly in box. Anything that requires a full display (fullscreen) sees the full display. The only way to fix that is for the OS to actually see a Ultrawide/4K/6K display as however many smaller screens. Then you would have borderless multiple screens like people falsely claim they have.
If I could fullscreen 4 RDP sessions on a single 4K monitor I would gladly dump multiple screens. That means the os sees the 4K screen logically as four monitors with native resolution.
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So the low end laptop pro and the iMac can only have one external display? Much ado about nothing. Who is using the iMac with 2 external displays….you bought the wrong product. And on the laptop just upgrade the chip. People whining about this didn’t read the whole article. M3 pro and Max got your monitor needs taken care of.
They don't make anybody buy anything actually, it's a choice everyone has....like get a PC 🤣
Get the Max chip and do all that. This is only the base M3.
Precisely, that's why Pro's like you need to get an M3 Pro or M3 Max 😊
Are you really trying to flex on a 10 year old machine with 60Hz refresh rates?
Why wouldn't a Pro laptop with the base M3 not beneficial to support dual-external monitors? This is nothing more than Apple's attempt to upsell while also maximizing profits on the base M3.
Not sure how I'm wrong when I said nearly this exact thing in the comment you're replying to.
While far from the "norm," it's certainly more common in business than elsewhere. But most businesses don't use Macs anyway, and in the limited cases where they do use Macs they'll buy the appropriate models for their employees and cost is largely a non-factor.