Mac Hardware
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Quick–fire questions &answers
CAN AN 8–CORE MACBOOK PRO M3 DRIVE TWO DISPLAYS?
Apple silicon Macs with basic M–series chips and a total of eight CPU cores only support a single external display.
But you can use DisplayLink to expand that if you’re careful to choose the right displays that support it.
Further details are at https://bit.ly/47wy6Bu.
HOW TO ADD THREE THUNDERBOLT SSDS TO A MACBOOK AIR?
The best option is a Thunderbolt 4 hub like the CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 4 (or TS4), but those all require wall power; it can’t be powered by its port on your Mac. A hub such as this would give you three ports for the one that it occupies on your Mac.
> Back up an external drive
How should I back up the media libraries I store on my external hard disk?
Media libraries and document archives tend to change far less often than active parts of your Home folder, such as Documents, and normally don’t merit backing up every hour, as Time Machine would do by default. Unless you add many photos during the course of most days, they may not even need to be backed up daily, but just once a week.