Apple has quietly — and possibly solely semi-effectively — lifted one of many MacBook Air’s most annoying limitations. With the brand new M3 MacBook Air, you possibly can lastly plug in two exterior shows directly… so long as you shut the laptop computer’s lid.
Whereas that is doubtless a suitable trade-off to most, contemplating not many individuals use multi-monitor setups with greater than two shows, it nonetheless seems like a unusually arbitrary limitation for a laptop computer working a chip as highly effective because the M3 (particularly since you will get round this limitation by following guides like this one from Macworld).
For context, the M3 Professional MacBook Professional works with two exterior displays natively whereas the lid is open. The M3 Max chip can push 4 further shows, plus its display for a complete of 5 shows. It’s price noting that the M3 MacBook Professional solely helps one exterior show with as much as a 4K decision at 60Hz regardless of that includes the identical chip because the M3 MacBook Air.
It’s doable Apple may add comparable twin monitor assist to the MacBook Professional by an replace.
Replace 03/04/2024 1:43pm ET: Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac‘s Zac Hall that assist for 2 exterior displays when the laptop computer is closed is coming to the base-level M3 MacBook Pro in a software update.
Supply: Apple, @apollozac Through: Macworld
