The latest and greatest M3 MacBook Air is now on sale and that means that people have been putting it through its paces for a little while. The machine has a lot going for it not least an upgraded chip, a thin and light design, and a choice of colors to boot. But one of the notable additions over the previous models is that the latest MacBook Air can be hooked up to two external monitors at once. The limitation? You'll lose access to the internal display, but that could be worth the trade-off if you need extra space with which to work. However, it turns out there might be a catch.
New testing shows that running the MacBook Air with external displays attached works well, but things can start to go awry when people do something that they've been doing with Mac laptops for decades now. Closing the lid, or running the MacBook Air in clamshell mode as it has become known, can drastically reduce the performance of the machine according to new tests. And when we say drastically, we really mean it.
