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Nice overview of interesting bugs. I used to have a ton of issues with my MacBook Pro and thunderbolt monitor. These issues persisted through different MacBook
by gonehome 4y ago
Nice overview of interesting bugs.
I used to have a ton of issues with my MacBook Pro and thunderbolt monitor. These issues persisted through different MacBooks and monitors (we used the monitors at work and it was a work machine so I had a few).
All of these issues finally went away after getting an M1 machine. Maybe a coincidence but fewer monitor connection bugs was one of the noticeable changes for me.
Based on the article it might also be because I switched to the apple pro display? Though I can’t remember what happened first.
Also off-topic, but this blog has beautiful style and typography.
- sroussey 4y agoI found that after I updated the firmware of the monitors, they worked almost perfectly. And to make them actually work perfectly, I connect them on different sides on the MacBook Pro (intel version still). Took way too long to figure that out.
- alin23 4y agoThanks, glad you like the styling ^_^ And yes, it's very likely that most of your problems went away because you're using the Pro Display, as it has a much faster CPU than most monitor controllers on the market. Apple displays also support a proprietary USB protocol through which they can communicate with the Mac faster than through the DDC protocol which is still based on two-wire slowpoke I²C. That Apple Native protocol is also supported by Lunar for silky smooth brightness transitions, which is just not possible on DDC, unless the monitor has some kind of built-in fader.