Despite the excitement of the debut of the new M3 MacBook Pro notebooks at its Monday “Scary Fast” media event, a bandwidth limitation on the base model M3 processor could be a dealbreaker for some power units.
While the first M1-powered MacBooks received high praise overall, a frequent piece of criticism was their ability to only support one external monitor. Support for two or three external displays would arrive with the M1 Pro and M1 Pro Max processor, and when the M2 chip debuted in the MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro in June 2022, it still lacked support for multiple external monitors.
The base model M3 chip, which has arrived alongside the M3 Pro and M3 Max chips, remains limited to supporting just a single external display.
It’s pretty simple: it’s a dealbreaker for some, not for others. Apple knows its customers very well; they made something to suit the vast majority of them.
The breakdown goes as follows:
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Via 9to5Mac