Title: I own four different Apple computers -- a 2017 MacBook Pro, an M1 MacBook Air, an M1 MacBook Pro, and most recently a maxed out Mac Studio. I also have had in that timespan three different Windows desktops that I have built and a ThinkPad running Windows or Linux depending on the mood.<p>I have spent countless dollars on cables and adapters in an attempt to find the magic combination. I have read DisplayPort specs, I know every brand of certified cable. I now know way more than I would ever care to know about DisplayPort and HDMI protocols. I have tried 4 different brands and models of monitor. For one of those models, I had three of the exact same model. All combinations work flawlessly with anything that is not one of the Apple devices. I have all but eliminated any of these components being the problem.<p>Depending on the device and the day I will get:<p>- Visual artifacts like snow, lines, flickering<p>- Failure to support native resolution on any high resolution monitors<p>- Failure to support high refresh rates<p>- Forced scaling, detecting monitor as a TV and using interlacing<p>- Most reliably of all, failure to wake from sleep without plugging&#x2F;unplugging; doing a dance with power cycling my monitor or device until it finally works, or just giving up and logging into my Windows PC because today I can&#x27;t use my Apple computer<p>It&#x27;s never all at once, but it&#x27;s always at least one thing. In the time of owning any of these devices, I have without exaggeration, not once had the expected experience of sitting down at my desk and starting my day without fighting my computer to work properly with my monitor.<p>Searching the internet, I can&#x27;t be alone. All of the problems I have, as far as I can tell, other people experience. And as far as I can tell, no one has an answer. I&#x27;m at a breaking point after ordering this $4k desktop Mac Studio and waiting 3 months for it to arrive. I hoped that, being a device that requires an external display, they at least worked it out with this one.<p>They did not.<p>So how does the entire professional industry working with Apple computers manage to start their day, every day, like this? Am I insane? Is no one else dealing with this? Are you all just using the built in display? This has been going on for YEARS for me, across multiple generations of devices.
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