[rexf]

> I feel very disappointed that the laptops lack decent i/o. They spend all this time talking about how advanced the GPU is, but it's a $1,600 laptop that can only power one external display or a 2,000 laptop that can only power two displays?

yep. powering 2+ screens on a mac is not a straightforward process. for the prices Apple is charging on their "pro" machines, it should be simple to plug in 2 or even more screens to get work done.

[niek_pas]

Genuinely curious: what is your workflow that it requires more than 2 external monitors? Pro video?

[hot_gril]

Amateur video and full-stack software dev were the times I really appreciated having 3 monitors, running tons of things at once that all interact with each other.

Nowadays with my big corp SWE job, things outside my control make my workflow a lot slower, and I don't benefit from using more than just 1 screen. I work on multiple things at once, but they're totally separate, so I tab between them on my laptop.

[Halen77]

One screen for intellij, one screen for tests, one screen for browser or email, for instance

[toxik]

A lot of people use three screens. I don’t, I use one, but people do.