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

Posted on Dec 3, 2024 7:25 AM

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Posted on Dec 3, 2024 7:30 AM

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



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Dec 3, 2024 7:30 AM in response to tommie285

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



Dec 3, 2024 7:38 AM in response to tommie285

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.

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