Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari...
by mlindner on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @09:36PM
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Have you tried changing the cable/adapter out? USB4/Thunderbolt is an incredibly complex protocol now and cables are now active with built in microprocessors sometimes even running full OSes inside the cable. It's possible that could be the cause. You didn't mention what type of monitor connection you're using.
> I'm yet to find something I could possibly gripe about.
I can. It does not much like my Philips 328E1 monitor. When it wakes up the display, sometimes it renders all the colors as sorta-inverted. Like, not actually inverted, but maybe just one color channel is inverted. Repeatedly sleeping & waking the display sometimes fixes after a few tries. Rebooting always fixes it.
Also, on a fresh login, after I reach the desktop it will sleep the display maybe 5 seconds later for unknown reasons. Usually it wakes up okay after a few more seconds, and then things are fine from then on.
I tried all sorts of things, then gave up. Now I don't let the display sleep, so I manually turn it off when I walk away from my desk. It makes switching to my other MacBook a little more hassle because I have to do it manually, but I can live with it.
And before you ask if there's something wrong with my display... it works great, 100% of the time, never a single glitch on my work computer, which is a 16 inch MacBook Pro.
Sometimes I regret getting the M1 and not waiting for them to work out the bugs.