{"id":36376,"date":"2022-06-29T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36376"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T21:13:14","slug":"m2-display-limit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/29\/m2-display-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"M2 Display Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/m2-display-limit\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayoBlog\/status\/1541868941441744896\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/m2-display-limit\">\n<p>The move from Intel to Apple Silicon meant Apple&rsquo;s best-selling machines, the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, went backwards in one regard. They were no longer capable of driving two external displays.<\/p>\n<p>But that was easily excused. It is only the first-generation of Apple Silicon after all. Although using two monitors at once is not really an edge case, it&rsquo;s certainly not a dealbreaker for a base model laptop. As such, the sang was remarked upon and quickly excused as a footnote; a strange quirk of first-gen engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Year two, here comes M2. CPU is better, GPU is better &#8230; and yet the one-display limitation remains.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/06\/macbook-air-2022\/\">MacBook Air 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/06\/13-inch-macbook-pro-2022\/\">13-inch MacBook Pro 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo (tweet): The move from Intel to Apple Silicon meant Apple&rsquo;s best-selling machines, the 13-inch MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, went backwards in one regard. They were no longer capable of driving two external displays. But that was easily excused. It is only the first-generation of Apple Silicon after all. Although using two monitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-06-29T21:13:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"e294ec58-b8e2-4f13-bc6d-93ea1ce02e59","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-06-29T21:13:16Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A4pTsWLjiTxO8bZPqHOAuWQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2221,30,1173,100,2077,659],"class_list":["post-36376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m2","tag-mac","tag-macbook-air","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-12","tag-multiple-displays"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36377,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions\/36377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}