With the appearance of the new Apple computers with ARM SoC, there are also improvements in terms of graphics performance. All M1 Macs, i.e. MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, can address the Pro Display XDR with 6K – so far, this was only possible with Intel machines with the Air and the 4-port Thunderbolt versions of the Pro.

For those who need more space However, there is at first Look also deteriorations. According to Apple, a 6K display with 60 Hertz is possible for the MacBook Air and Pro, and a 6K display for the Mac mini with 60 Hertz plus a 4K display with 60 Hertz via HDMI. The portable Intel machines, on the other hand, were able to address two displays with 4K as standard, the Intel Mac mini up to three 4K displays.

However, ARM Mac users do not have to do without the use of many displays . With tricks and tricks you can address up to six displays with the M1 machines. YouTuber Ruslan Tulupov shows this in a new video. To make this work, however, he uses a few tricks: He uses DisplayPort adapters including DisplayLink software and Thunderbolt 3 docks. The ARM computers prove to be sufficiently fast enough for this.

Powerful display area In the end, it is possible to operate up to six external monitors on the Mac mini with M1, and up to five on MacBook Air and MacBook Pro with M1. Unfortunately, it is not possible to operate up to six 4K displays via Thunderbolt 3, as the bandwidth is lacking. Accordingly, Tulupov drives a mixture of 1080 p and 4K.

The overall performance was “great”, says the YouTuber, he has hardly seen any frame drops. There was also no malfunction when starting the computer or opening the screen. Accordingly, the system could be used in daily operations. DisplayLink has already adapted its well-known drivers for macOS alias Big Sur. These are from August and don’t even seem to be adapted for M1 Macs, so they should run in Apple’s Rosetta 2 emulation. Nevertheless, this does not affect the performance. So far, it has not yet been tried whether a setup like that from Tulupov also works with Apple’s Sidecar, with which iPads can be used as an additional screen. Then a seventh display would be added.

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