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My $2.2k laptop can't drive two screens

I received a new MacBook Pro 14" M3 from my employer, which starts at €2.049 ($2224) in Italy. It looks like a solid machine, at least physically speaking. I wired it up to my fairly basic dual-monitor office setup, just to realize that confusingly enough, I could not use the HDMI and USB-C port at the same time. I thought that was a cable issue, then a bug, but nope. It turns out the “base” M3 chip is essentially an overclocked iPad chip put into a computer, and it does not have two display controllers.

What Apple is doing is trying to squeeze even more profit out of all users who didn’t read the fine print, buy the “basic” MacBook Pro Tier, and produce a ton of e-waste since this machine will be unused by them and flow on the used market. for absurd prices is highly unethical and preys on the lack of technical expertise for users to buy stuff that will date fast and require a replacement within a couple of years. Apple is a trillion-dollar company, and this product seems like the latest lazy attempt at growing its stock value by bringing basic features to more and more extremely upmarket models and reducing the lifespan of their hardware.

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