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I suspect (and this is just speculation) the M1 is very closely related to their iPad architecture which was never designed for more than one external display, as such the architecture wasn't really suitable and between building a 'computer' based on that chip and re-architecting the design it just wasn't feasible or required to support it on the first release.

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Thats exactly my thought too. Makes me wonder if it will support two monitors in clamshell mode since the mac mini supports two. I guess we'll have to wait and see. Maybe it's something they can patch in.

I'm also curious as to how the graphics connections / routing works; would they have an internal bus and then split and mux it or something? Or perhaps an eDP or LVDS bus that can't be switched out to some HDMI or DP transceiver in clamshell?

Let's see if iFixit can get us some nice high-res pictures. Heck, someone might leak schematics and any normal users can probably show a IOTree for the system. Always nice to explore those on new machines.

Very much agree, I wonder as well. In other news, are there any adaptors out there that let me plug in two 4K displays and pretend to be a double wide single 4K display?

Yes, I think Matrox is one of those that makes them.

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