Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by macintux on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:27PM (#25240705)

I was considering picking up a new Mini so I could drive two displays, but then I remembered another laptop advantage: TouchID. I would really miss that.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by joshmanders on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:36PM (#25240763)

I drive two 27-inch 4K displays at 3840x2160 on my 2019 16-inch MacBook pro.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by macintux on Saturday November 28, 2020 @04:40PM (#25240792)

Ditto, but the M1 laptops officially only can do one display. People have hacked around it but I’d rather wait.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by X-Istence on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:37PM (#25241888)

I have it driving a 49" UltraWide Curved Monitor... which replaced my two 27" monitors.

Might not be for everyone, but I only need it to drive a single external monitor.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by waheoo on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:49PM (#25241939)

At what res/rate?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by X-Istence on Saturday November 28, 2020 @07:59PM (#25242006)

5120 by 1440 at 60 hertz.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by threeseed on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:27PM (#25241469)

You can use DisplayLink to get around it.

I wouldn't class it as a hack since it is pretty standard in enterprise environments. Downside is that it does consume CPU which depending on your workload may/may not be noticeable.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by joshmanders on Saturday November 28, 2020 @05:29PM (#25241094)

Ah I didn't know that.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by in3d on Saturday November 28, 2020 @09:17PM (#25242430)

You can get it up to 3 4k monitors and the original laptop screen running together with this MacBook Pro. But it becomes laggy.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by st3fan on Sunday November 29, 2020 @05:32PM (#25248712)

The Mini also unlocks with your Apple Watch :-)

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective by macintux on Monday November 30, 2020 @10:15AM (#25254561)

Good point. I don’t think it handles all of my use cases (e.g., passwords and credit card info in Safari) but I’d forgotten that there are several instances where my finger and my watch are in competition to see who unlocks something first.

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