Connect multiple displays on MacBook Air M2

Hello,

I am in the process of buying external monitors for my Mac. I found this model: Monitor SAMSUNG LS27A600UUUXEN. It has a dock built in so I can use it for this purpose too.

The monitors can be daisy chained.


What are the options to connect them to my Macbook Air M2?

  • dasy chain the monitors and then connect them via a single thunderbolt/usb4, or
  • connect one monitor via thunderbolt-dock, and the other to the remaining thunderbolt port via a display port adapter?


Thanks!

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Posted on Jan 3, 2024 1:17 PM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2024 3:08 AM

The 13" and 15" M2 MacBook Airs do not support the use of multiple monitors.


MacBook Air (M2, 2022) - Technical Specifications

MacBook Air (15-inch, M2, 2023) - Technical Specifications


Display Support


Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:

  • One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

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Jan 4, 2024 3:08 AM in response to vanja193

The 13" and 15" M2 MacBook Airs do not support the use of multiple monitors.


MacBook Air (M2, 2022) - Technical Specifications

MacBook Air (15-inch, M2, 2023) - Technical Specifications


Display Support


Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at 1 billion colors and:

  • One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz

Jan 4, 2024 3:18 AM in response to vanja193

vanja193 wrote:

I found this model: Monitor SAMSUNG LS27A600UUUXEN. It has a dock built in so I can use it for this purpose too.
The monitors can be daisy chained.

I'm not sure that you could use the daisy-chaining support on that monitor even if you had a Mac that supported multiple monitors.


On a Mac that had a Thunderbolt 3 or 4 port, and that supported multiple monitors, you could get a Thunderbolt hub or dock, and connect two non-Thunderbolt monitors to it. (Thunderbolt would provide bandwidth to carry a couple of video signals from your Mac to the hub or dock – but the hub or dock would still need two signals from your Mac to be able to drive two monitors.)


With your Mac, you can certainly connect a Thunderbolt hub or dock, but there's only going be one video signal which that hub or dock can, in turn, offer to devices plugged into it.

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