Can the new M1 MacBook Pro 13" support two LG UltraFine 5K Displays at full resolution like the current (November, 2020) MacBook Pro 16" can?
MacBook Pro
The Apple-silicon M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13-in support ONE external display, but that one can be as large as the Apple 6K HDR display.
The Apple-silicon M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13-in support ONE external display, but that one can be as large as the Apple 6K HDR display.
DisplayLink technology creates a "fake" display buffer in RAM, sends the data out over a slower interface to a stunt box with DisplayLink custom chips that put that data back onto a "legacy" interface. It is not a true "accelerated" display, and it suffers from lagging.
It may be acceptable for a second display showing slow-to-change data such as computer program listings, stock quotes, or spreadsheets, but NOT for full motion Video, and mouse-tracking on that display can lag, and can make you feel queasy.
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It is really nice to know that you can use a DisplayLink display if you MUST have an additional display for some of the types of data I mentioned. But that is NOT the same as the computer supporting a second, built-in, accelerated display.
These displays depend on DisplayLink software, and are at the whim of Apple when they make MacOS changes. There have been cases where MacOS changes completely Borked DisplayLink software, and it took some time for them to recover.
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I think the Big Surprise for a lot of Hub/Dock buyers is that they thought they were getting a "real" display, but actually got a DisplayLink "fake" Display. If you got what you expected in every case, I would not use such strong terms to describe DisplayLink.
I have these same 5k displays and want to know if the display link solutions others have found can work with these two usb-c displays.
https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/24/m1-mac-external-display-workaround/
Dual LG UltraFine 5K Displays
