Wife wanted a new Mac for work, Air is all she needs for performance but sadly, had she got one, even an Air with the M2 processor. A $1500 US product, it would only support a single external display.
In 2023.
A single external display on a $1500 Mac. Incredible!
So, we had to get an M2 Pro and of course it still has weird oddities, her Intel 2017 and Intel 2019 Macs both worked with my high end dock, with the lid closed. Just tap the space bar and the Macs woke up in the morning, not so with the new M series, have to lift the lid, unplug the dock, wait, plug in dock, wait, close lid each morning.
Then there's this, you know Apple using Displayport logos but not actually complying with Displayport specifications
(of course Apple stans will defend them with a plethora of silly excuses why this is acceptable)
(and yes if you're going to skim the post, the hardware IS capable of it, the software just decides not to)
Finally there's this
You know industry standard docks, using Thunderbolt, USB-C which cause one particular model of Macs to reboot, despite the fact that Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Huawei and even Apple iPads working fine in docks. This one is clearly a driver fault of some kind, easily recreatable, simply ignored by Apple. It also occurs on monitors with USB -PD / basic hubs in them.
This is the precise stuff that has 'sperglord IT nerds' like myself, whining about Apple still, 20 years on. I get it, people like them and some stuff really does just work, heck some stuff is outright so damn well designed. If you like it, you're not 'wrong'. However doing stuff 'weird' and breaking stuff / ignoring faults because 'that's now how it's intended' doesn't cut it.