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by zer0zzz 838 days ago
> Which means that the hardware is fully capable of running whatever amount of the external displas you want.

Here’s a good rundown of display controller blocks from marcan: https://www.reddit.com/r/AsahiLinux/comments/w32hjn/comment/...

I’d take marcan’s word over yours if I have to be completely frank.

> Yes, but don't sell me "Apple M* is da best" shit, okay?

I never did, once again you’re assuming a lot. I originally chimed in to mention that people like these machines and others (like the newer windows on snapdragon systems) because they strike a good balance between mobile phone and desktop systems.

> Ah, yes, lack of a second monitor is freedom. Koolaid in it's finest.

Once again you’re assuming a lot. What straw-man are you trying to beat up here?
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justsomehnguy 837 days ago
>> Ah, you see, that's a different story. On M1 machines, no, that routing is hardwired as far as we know. On M2 machines, yes, in principle you can route both display controllers to external outputs (and disable the internal panel). That's how it works on desktops.

>> DisplayLink of course works, but it's an ugly virtual screen thing using compressed data over USB3, not a true directly connected external display.

From marcan himself. So yes, they just didn't want.

> I never did

>> get the best balance for product experience

> Once again you’re assuming a lot

Let me remind you of your words, because looks like your forgot what you wrote:

>> their more narrow model for how a PC can be built is selling really well and very few regular people miss their second monitor because of it.

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zer0zzz 837 days ago
> From marcan himself. So yes, they just didn't want.

They’re not going to ship that, knowing their engineering team they’d probably consider it a huge hack. They probably also have considered how proficiently their gpu can drive two versus 3+ 6K studio displays under varying circumstances.

It’s actually probably possible to get this going on asahi via usb a display link. Good thing no ones forcing anyone to run macOS on this hardware.

> Let me remind you of your words, because looks like your forgot what you wrote:

There’s nothing controversial in what I wrote. They clearly have grown Mac marketshare by building computers using their more restrictive phone hardware.

That’s not my opinion, that can actually be measured from the increase in web traffic from WebKit.

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