Experiences with Displaylink on M1 mac?

[fc0712]

Hey.

I have been thinking about getting the M1 air, but my current setup has a secondary monitor (4 year old Dell 27 inch 1440p IPS) and is currently using it for having browser open, PDF documents etc.

I was wondering how a display link adapter works for a secondary monitor for the M1.

Will it be sufficient or should i wait for the updated Air/MBP that supports 2 monitors?

 

[joevt]

It may be sufficient. It depends on your subjective opinion. There may be issues with playing DRM content, etc. There are other posts about M1 Macs and DisplayLink that you should search for.

Just google "displaylink" "m1"

M1 Macs Able to Run Up to Six External Displays Using DisplayLink

It is possible to run up to six external displays from the M1 Mac mini, and five external displays from the M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, with the aid of DisplayPort adapters, according to YouTuber Ruslan Tulupov. This far exceeds Apple's specified limits on external displays with the M1...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[fc0712]

Thanks for the reply.

Given my use case with using a 4k monitor as a primary and a secondary for more static content and we browsing the displaylink solution seems fine.