• I'm thinking of getting a Mac mini M1, but I also need to run multiple screens. There's a load of stuff on the interweb about the issues with extra displays on m1 machines, but I can't find a definitive answer for my specific set-up. Basically I currently use 2 displays, and then a Cintiq tablet which mirrors one of the displays. I know I could just get a fuck off great wide display to replace the current 2, and that would work native with an m1 Mac mini, but I wondered if my current set up would too with some adaptors thrown at it.

  • M1 Macs can only output two video signals at once, so your options are splitting one of them using an external box, or generating a third signal using a USB graphics card.

    The latter are mostly (always?) based on DisplayLink, which has spotty support by Apple, though some people seem happy with it.

  • Ok so that sounds like I could have main display to the hdmi port, then get a splitter to plug in to a usb-c and have the two displays (2nd screen plus cintiq) mirrored using the splitter?

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