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by staticfloat 1882 days ago
In case there's anyone out there with an M1 MBP that desperately wants multiple monitors, if you use a DisplayLink compatible external dock, something about the alternate driver that such a dock uses allows for multiple monitors. I personally use the Dell D6000 to run three external displays in addition to the built-in display off of my M1 MBP and it works quite well. You can see a list of DisplayLink docking stations here [0].

[0] https://www.displaylink.com/products/universal-docking-stati...

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Any chance that you know of any good dock station with 3 HDMI ports? Since DP on my monitors is used by desktop GPU.
Good luck. Even with my old intel based Mac I struggled to find a decent dock. Lots of docks have DisplayPorts and hdmi or if you’re unlikely like myself you are forced to use USB C to hdmi dongles.

I haven’t bought a DisplayLink and probably won’t. Once an Arm based Mac comes out with dual monitor support I’m giving my wife the M1 Air and buying a new one.

I guess I'll just go with hardware splitter then.
Is there any adapter that will let me run my 2 LG 5k monitors on a M1 MacBook Pro?