How do I connect two monitors to my MacBook Pro M1?
I can’t get two monitors working on my m1 laptop
one as one hdmi
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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.1
I can’t get two monitors working on my m1 laptop
one as one hdmi
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.1
There are three versions of the M1 chip: M1 Max, M1 Pro, and M1. If you have the base M1 chip, that only supports one external display.
MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support
The M1 Pro supports two, the M1 Max supports four.
MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support
There are three versions of the M1 chip: M1 Max, M1 Pro, and M1. If you have the base M1 chip, that only supports one external display.
MacBook Pro (13-inch, M1, 2020) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support
The M1 Pro supports two, the M1 Max supports four.
MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) - Technical Specifications - Apple Support
Your tag line says that you have a 13" MacBook Pro. That one has a plain M1 chip and supports a maximum of one external display.
The Apple standard for its built-in hardware-accelerated displays, makes them suitable for full-motion video for production/display of cinema-quality video with NO dropped frames, and NO dropouts or partial-blank scan lines due to memory under-runs or other issues. This requires a hardware rasterizer/display-generator for each fully-accelerated display, supported by Huge memory bandwidth to refresh each display 60 or more times a second.
If you need more hardware-accelerated displays than the built-in and ONE external display, and an un-accelerated iPad if desired, you probably need a more capable computer.
You can also have one additional less-capable Apple display using Sidecar, limited to an iPad or or Apple-TV device, but that is NOT a hardware accelerated display.
How do I connect two monitors to my MacBook Pro M1?