Can anyone suggest a monitor brand that plays well with Macs?
Each monitor I have (a Dell and a Samsung) require a carefully choreographed dance involving a procession of plugging and unplugging, switching things off and on and various experimental sequences to get everything up and running each morning. I have resorted to using a power board with individual switches to turn monitors off and then on again. This seems to be the only thing that works effectively.
It's suboptimal.
I would rather some monitors that simply woke up from sleep when my 2020 MBP wakes up. This can happen multiple times per day and I have resorted to using Caffeinated during the day to keep everything switched on. During the day it's not always as bad as first thing (deep sleep?), but it's slow and clunky.
Look, I would love a Mac Studio Display but I have no idea if it works this way... I've been so badly burned!
I'm not willing to part with $2500 AUD to make it happen too.
Any ideas? What experiences has the HN crowd had with monitors on the Mac of late?
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[ 6.6 ms ] story [ 60.3 ms ] threadI would not be surprised if this also affects the 2020 (Intel) MacBook Pro as well
The 329P9H/27 is, for all intents and purposes, an AOC-manufactured monitor.
My next step down from there would be Dell, but you've got to do your homework on the different models of Dell monitors.
One thing I will say is that you really want to be using the DisplayPort inputs on your monitors. HDMI is way too heavily encumbered by special interests that want to DRM everything and that almost always has lots of other negative side effects. If you have a more recent machine, then a USB-C to DisplayPort cable would likely be your best bet, but again you've got to do your homework.
The other thing I'd say is that it's probably better to use only monitors from a certain specific manufacturer, and not mix-and-match manufacturers. Things you do to get one monitor from one manufacturer working may interfere with a monitor from a different manufacturer.
Also keep in mind that certain docks or port expanders can also cause problems.
The monitor wakes from sleep exactly as suggested. Even when the Mac is closed, you can move the mouse/keyboard connected to the KVM to awaken it. (However if the KVM is switched away from the Mac, as expected it won't auto-switch back when the Mac is awakened.)
IMO the monitor looks fantastic, but it's IPS so doesn't have as-good-as-possible blacks/contrast/HDR. There is also some backlight bleed visible in a dark room (apparently typical on large IPS monitors).
I have one LG 27GL850 and an HP 24 nothing fancy. I used to use an HP thunderbolt dock to power both monitors, one output via HDMI and one via DP. Surprisingly, the HDMI output worked better. Still I had weird issues like flickering at random, limited refresh rate, etc and I had to de power the dock often.
Now I have a TB4 hub, 1 TB to the laptop, 3 TB out. Not only it’s cheaper but it’s smaller, more modular and more stable. I use two TB to whatever video port you need and one TB to Ethernet. It works great.
Also the M1 macs had issues outputting RGB color but I think it’s been solved in in Monterey, but if you tried any fixes before you might have to clear your settings file.
I just plug in the laptop, touch the keyboard and I’m up and running.
A trick to get cleartype-smooth fonts is to use betterdummy and mirror your monitors to it. It renders at 4K and the mirroring looks much better. The only problems are how complicated the setup gets with multiple monitors and that it’s limited to 60hz