Quad monitor support for mew Macbook pro with M1 chips.

dilb3r wrote:

I currently have a MacBook Pro 13" with a quad monitor set up using a docking station. (3 monitors run from dock 1 directly from thunderbolt on the mac) would this be supported on the new Macs with M1 chips?

Tell me what you think of this references:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252026776?answerId=253907844022#253907844022

I'm also wondering as I'm running a very similar setup, I think the rumours are only based on what apple officially stated as "is supported" on the website and not any actually announced limitations.

I think they removed egpu as supported accessory only because they'll stop selling them. if it would be a real limitation they would of probably removed support from Big Sur for every Mac.

And I think the external screen limitation has to be taken absolutely into context of resolution, lower resolution on each screen probably mean more screen working, but if you run at very high resolution, only one will be supported.

But all that being said, I'm also waiting on REAL TEST confirmation on these speculations to buy myself a brand new Mac (that isn't even needed 😂

Pierrick584 wrote:

I'm also wondering as I'm running a very similar setup, I think the rumours are only based on what apple officially stated as "is supported" on the website and not any actually announced limitations.

Apple announced the specifications for the new Macs. Are you suggesting they don’t really know what those specifications are?

No I'm suggesting they are not saying the full picture, they say only one 6k monitor, but they don't specifically say two 1080p won't work, they could be omiting the lower resolution possibility because it doesn't look good to mention 1080p in 2020 for a revolutionary new product. but then that's just a guess based on the fact these kinds of things happened often, companies care more about how things make them look like than real facts

Unclear ... Apple says only one external monitor. I plugged in two LG Ultrafine 24" monitors, both in individual ports and daisy chained, and can only get one to work at a time. However, I can confirm that 1 external monitor and sidecar with an iPad Pro can effectively give you three screens, but obviously it's not the same thing. The question is will a dock allow you to use more than one external monitor ... so far, the answer is no from those who have tried it.

I have the M1 pro and could only get 1 external display to work. Its a 2k monitor connected via thunderbolt. My other monitor I tried to connect via thunderbolt as well did not display, then through an HDMI adapter and still did not display. I connected through a spare thunderbolt dock, and through our Black Magic E-GPU still only 1 display. I think its a limitation of only having 1 thunderbolt controller for output.

I suppose it depends on your definition of ‘support’. If you’re using DisplayLink or similar (which is the case in the post linked by @leroydouglas), then you’re getting limited resolution and very limited refresh rate. Might be ok if you’re watching something slow like a stock ticker, but to me that’s not ‘supported’.

Also worth noting that when Catalina came out it ‘broke’ DisplayLink until a patch was later. Again, a hardware set up that stops working with a software update is not my definition of supported.

Only one external display is supported. You can physically connect >1, but they will just mirror each other, not be independent desktops.

exactly, the intel DOES more than the specs says, so its fair to believe M1 could be the same, or not...