I am a bit confused. Why M1 Pro and M1 Max support many displays? As far as I heard, only one display and people need to use Displaylink to have more than one display in extended screen mode.
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I am a bit confused. Why M1 Pro and M1 Max support many displays? As far as I heard, only one display and people need to use Displaylink to have more than one display in extended screen mode.
The M1 Max has more silicon and is therefor able to have more silicon dedicated to display controllers.
There is no reason for the iPad to support multiple displays, hence why Apple probably decided to have only 1 display controller for the M1/M2 and use the available silicon for other stuff that is more useful.
M1 supports one 6K external display.
M1 Pro supports two 6K external displays.
M1 Max supports three 6K and one 4K external displays.
What are you confused about? M1 Pro/Max have more display controllers, which is why they can support more displays.
Are they in mirror mode only? Do you mean for MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Pro, I can connect to two 4K displays at 60Hz in extended mode while for MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Max, I can connect to three 4K displays at 60Hz. In both cases, all in extended screen mode and without DisplayLink?
Why some users need to use DisplayLink? Is it just for M1 and M2 users?
Basically, I want to connect a MacBook Pro 16" with M1 Pro or M1 Max to two external 4K TVs @60Hz in extended screen mode rather than just mirror mode. TVs only have HDMI 2.0 ports. I want to do that via a dock which also provides 1-5Gbps ethernet connection and charging.
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Precisely. You can use whatever mode you want with these displays. This is the numbers of displays supported by the hardware directly.
You shouldn't have any problems with that. Save of course for potential compatibility issues and the capabilities of the dock itself.
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Make sure the dock can handle 2 displays at 60 Hz. I have a USB-C dock that can support 2 displays but only one at 60 Hz and the other at 30 Hz.
Of course it is possible that your TVs only support 30 Hz anyway.
That's good. Why some MacBook Pro users need to use DisplayLink to hook up to two displays?
13” M1 or M2 MacBook Pros only support one external display. M1 Pro and M1 Max 14” and 16” support at least two.
No idea. Frankly, I don't understand why someone would buy a Mac and then use a USB video card for primary display output. It's like buying a sports car to transport farming equipment.
If there's something I'd like to have on my next M2 Pro chip, would be 14-15h battery life, the current M1 Pro just doesn't cut it for a full day work sometimes, whereas the M1 could.
The OP is talking about the next gen of AS chips that will be on 3 nm, and that's most likely going to be N3 rather than N3E (N3 devices should be shipping to customers 1H 2023). And according to this article by Anton Shilov on Anandtech, that 33% figure is probably for N3E rather than N3, and for efficiency improvement rather than performance improvement over N5.According to TSMC press release, 3-2 Fin (N3E) is supposed to bring 33% faster speeds over N5. Given that promise I’d say that 10% is a bit underwhelming
TSMC FINFLEX™ – Ultimate Performance, Power Efficiency, Density and Flexibility - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
Many product designs are a series of compromises. Take for example, electric vehicles, wouldn’t it be great to have a 1000-mile or 1600-kilometer range in an EV? But consider what compromises would need to be made to achieve this goal. The battery would be massive and heavy, leading to an...www.tsmc.com
Performance and efficiency improvments aren't symmetric for these chips: As a rule of thumb, you can choose either an x% improvement in efficiency, or a 0.5x% improvement in performance. So if Apple goes for performance with N3, we should seen a 10-15% improvement over N5 for the same microarchitecture and clock speeds
Of course, we might see new microarchitechture and/or faster clocks with the next gen N3 chips on the 14"/16" MBPs. Though Apple's practice thus far has been to release the new microarch on the less complex chips first, which suggests the early 2023 MBP's will still be A15-based. But maybe the clock speeds....
Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17469/tsmc-first-n2-node-to-use-gaafets-skip-backside-power
OP mentions products like 3-2 Fin etc. which I could only find in the context of TSMC FinFlex (N3E): https://www.tsmc.com/english/news-events/blog-article-20220616
Of course, it could all still be a bunch of random guesses based on accounted TSMC products.
I'm always 2-3h short at the end of my day when doing work at the datacenter
Especially with VMs running
I take mine to work and the workload is high so need more power!I'm always 2-3h short at the end of my day when doing work at the datacenter
On the 16" Apple can't really do that because of the 100WHr limit on planes. They can always just add more battery and people who own 16" models can resign themselves to not flying with it.
The 14" can always be upped to 99WHr like the 16" but then it'd not get up to M1 level on load anyway (And probably would make the 16" look worse)
Per federal regs:
So technically if the airline allows it a laptop can have a battery as big as 160Wh.
Would love either a bigger battery on the 14" or a more efficient SOC in 3nm
The biggest idle consumer of battery is probably the display. I doubt that making the SoC more efficient will do much…
Ooh, nice. I doubt it'll get an M1 Pro laptop up to M1 levels but it would be nice. I wonder if Apple would ever bother with it.
I personally don't think M2 will have 3-tiers of cores. We would have seen something like this in the M2 if so. If it's an M3, I'd believe it more.
So this could be an M3 12 CPU core with 8/2/2 design on 3nm and shipping in March/April 2023.
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M3 would most likely be on 3nm and introduce hardware ray tracing, with LPDDR5X providing up to 1TB of RAM...
EDIT TO ADD: Clarification; I meant 1TB RAM with a M3 Extreme (quad M3 Max SoCs) configuration...
EDIT TO ADD: Clarification; I meant 1TB RAM with a M3 Extreme (quad M3 Max SoCs) configuration...
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