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My 16 inch MacBook with a i9 2.4 GHz has a significantly better battery performance than my 2016 i7. It’s also so silent I can hear high pitch sounds from the R

My 16 inch MacBook with a i9 2.4 GHz has a significantly better battery performance than my 2016 i7. It’s also so silent I can hear high pitch sounds from the RasPi4 lying next to me. A very different problem that’s almost never discussed is the fact that you cannot always plug two different displays via TB3 in, one on the left and one on the right, without triggering some bug that doesn’t correctly enable the respective other display until the cable is removed and 20 or more seconds waited until it’s plugged in again. That’s been the case for the 2016 and my current 2019 model, and it’s been the case for everyone in my team with two or more displays via TB3.

bencoder 7y ago
I've always had problems with external displays on macbooks. Particularly when using 2, regardless of hdmi or TB, but even a single display sometimes refuses to work without repeatedly unplugging and retrying. Never explicitly tried leaving for 20 seconds though, I'll try that next time
- todd8 7y ago
  This is something that has puzzled me for a long time. Why is it so difficult for monitors to simply turn on when the devices they are plugged into turn on? Right now I own a high end LG TV from a couple of years ago and it won’t wake reliably when I turn on the Apple TV device attached to it. Sometimes, but not always, it requires both the TV remote and the separate speaker bar remote in addition to the Apple TV remote. Occasionally, to get a picture I even resort to restarting the Apple TV by unplugging it. In my office, my monitor on both my new Mac Mini and on my Linux box both flash up a screen for about 2 seconds then turn off and the a second later turn back on. This happens every time they wake from sleep. It just seems strange that with all the technology inside these devices that the first impression they make looks like some senior design electronics project powering up.

bencoder 7y ago

I've always had problems with external displays on macbooks. Particularly when using 2, regardless of hdmi or TB, but even a single display sometimes refuses to work without repeatedly unplugging and retrying. Never explicitly tried leaving for 20 seconds though, I'll try that next time

todd8 7y ago
This is something that has puzzled me for a long time. Why is it so difficult for monitors to simply turn on when the devices they are plugged into turn on? Right now I own a high end LG TV from a couple of years ago and it won’t wake reliably when I turn on the Apple TV device attached to it. Sometimes, but not always, it requires both the TV remote and the separate speaker bar remote in addition to the Apple TV remote. Occasionally, to get a picture I even resort to restarting the Apple TV by unplugging it. In my office, my monitor on both my new Mac Mini and on my Linux box both flash up a screen for about 2 seconds then turn off and the a second later turn back on. This happens every time they wake from sleep. It just seems strange that with all the technology inside these devices that the first impression they make looks like some senior design electronics project powering up.