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0 pointscoder5433y ago0 comments

This also applies to the new MacBook Pros as well, to be clear.

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Cynic in my wonders if they finally have an 8k display they are ready to sell then.

The previous Macs supported so many 5k/8k display at once, they arguably should be able to drive a single 8k display, technically.

Example, Mac Studio supports up to 4 x 6k displays AND 1 4k at once. So that is 4 x 18M pixels + 8M pixels = 80M pixels

8k displays are 32M pixels, so Mac Studio is arguably already able to push 2x that many pixels...

Or maybe it's related to the HDMI chipset they chose specifically until now.

coder543OP3y ago

No, this seems to have nothing to do with Apple's own monitors. Apple just didn't support the proper display connection standards previously.

Now they support HDMI 2.1, based on this announcement, so they're finally catching up to everyone else. It would have been dumb for them to fall further and further behind on a display connector regardless of what monitors Apple has in the pipeline.

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