MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at Apple’s October event

Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by jstsch on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:30PM (#28883342)

I am excited about these. Very curious if they’ll be able to drive my two LG 5K UltraFine displays.

Got those screens right away when the MBP2016 came out. It is a great setup, but unfortunately quite unstable. The MBP2016 had tons of crashes, after 4 logic board replacements it got swapped out for a 2018. More stable, but I still have to follow some ritualistic order plugging/unplugging them…

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by eyelidlessness on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:40PM (#28884353)

I’ve had issues with various external displays over various MBP models forever, particularly waking from sleep. My current display had no problems at all with my previous 2014 15", but when that one died I replaced it with the first gen 16" and all those problems came back.

That said, I stumbled on a solution that’s been almost totally effective: I only ever wake from sleep with the TouchID button. I suspect (not very educated hunch) the problems with this newer model have something to do with timing of wake/power signals being sent before any other device data while waiting for the T2 to unblock.

Anyway, you might give it a try. I think I’ve had to re-plug all of 2-3 times in the last year (whereas failure rate waking from my external keyboard was close to daily before, and required a reboot at least a couple times a week).

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by gambiting on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:57PM (#28883589)

The fact that the M1 macbooks can't drive two external displays(even with the internal display switched off) is criminal. I know at least two people who bought a brand new M1 MacBook and returned it the next day for this very reason.

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by jurmous on Friday October 15, 2021 @07:20PM (#28884239)

Up to 6 screens screens can be connected with the aid of DisplayLink on M1 machines

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/24/m1-macs-able-to-run-six...

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by nebula8804 on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:51PM (#28884053)

The Mac Mini Can drive two external displays. One via USB-C and one via HDMI.

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by cuddlybacon on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:50PM (#28883531)

I have two LG 4K monitors with a 2016 model (which I really want to upgrade). It's mostly fine. Waking from sleep it does go thru an annoying sequence where it wakes up one monitor at a time. When I gave feedback to Apple, they suggested plugging in the dedicated power supply as well. Maybe that would help some of the issues you see.

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by AttakBanana on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:36PM (#28883394)

Just curious, are these issues not enough to make you look elsewhere? Especially since these kind of issues have been common with MacBooks over the past few years. Maybe you require MacOS for something specific? Or is there just nothing else you'd rather use?

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by jstsch on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:47PM (#28883513)

Apart from this issue, these machines have been great for me. And the Apple ecosystem is hard to beat (when you get used to the seamless integration between devices…)

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by dkobia on Friday October 15, 2021 @08:38PM (#28884641)

I unfortunately (or fortunately) had to get an eGPU to drive the two monitors. Settled on the Razer Core X + Radeon RX GPU as there was no stable way to drive the two LG monitors.

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by tailspin2019 on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:12PM (#28884800)

What Mac are you using this eGPU with, out of interest?

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Re:MacBook Pros, an “M1X” chip, and other stuff to expect at... by tailspin2019 on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:11PM (#28884789)

I’m kind of fed up with external monitor issues with my MacBooks. It’s one of the main reasons I’ll probably get the M1X Mac Mini for desktop use and a cheap Air for a laptop rather than investing in a new high end M1X MBP to use in clamshell mode.

I think things got a lot worse when Apple ditched first party displays. I bought LGs because that’s what Apple sold and they just don’t work reliably enough (constant wake from sleep issues, across multiple laptops, macOS versions and cables/docks).

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