[marricks]

Apple launch M1 for their smallest cheapest computers first, if you want drive multiple screens you are not their target audience.

I think it's understandable devs are confused a bit, it's a flashy new thing and we want to try it, but it's not for power users. Another confusing aspect, at least to me, is it's stand out feature is battery life! We're all stuck at home though, so when is a charger more than 4 feet away from me?

Since they have an apparently amazing thermal headroom and battery life for their entry level machines I think it's safe to hope that whatever powers their 16" MBP will be a barn buster and meet your multiscreen needs.

[AtlasBarfed]

Apple is "Premium" computing products company, and further advertises in the content creation space for artists, etc.

Not properly driving monitors is a major fail, if that's true. It also ignores the fact early adopters will be technical and have a "basic" technical need like that.

Apple almost always supports the highest-bandwidth ports, precisely to drive large high-resolution monitors.

I've been thinking about M1, but this comment just nixed it. Maybe when it's out of beta.

[musicale]

As noted above, the M1 Mac mini can drive two monitors, one 4K and one 6K.

[smoldesu]

I can only hope. It would also be nice to see proper Linux support, but I guess that's wishful thinking from Apple.

[marricks]

Yeah... personally that is what makes me most reticent about M1 and future products.

With intel you know virtual machines and what not will just work, here Apple actually has to provide driver information and such or we’ll all just rely on hacks which could change generation to generation :(

[eschaton]

Virtual machines work, Apple provides not just Hypervisor.framework but also Virtualization.framework as part of macOS so implementing a headless VM app is less than a page or so of code.

[eschaton]

What would be the point of (and what even is) “proper Linux support?” It’s a Mac, why would you get it not to use as a Mac?