Not even having the best features of a Mac mini M1 could you get rid of depending on what faults. The new computers with Apple‘s own chips are tremendously powerful, but this particular model does not seem to fully emerge due to its connection with accessories as we have seen these months. The new problem now comes with the external monitors and the sleep mode of macOS, something that seems to be tiring several users who have this computer.
What is this new failure of the Mac mini M1?
Several discussions on MacRumors are echoed on their forums and Apple’s regarding Mac mini M1s and external displays. The complaints that users are leaving are with respect to some external monitors that, after leaving the computer’s sleep mode, it is not able to activate the screen as well. Generally, when macOS goes to sleep, so does the screen, but it will be enough to press a key or move the mouse for both the computer and it to wake up again. However, this is not happening to these afflicted users.
The solution they claim to take to reactivate the screen is to suddenly disconnect the connection cable between the Mac and the screen and reconnect it and reconnect it. It is not that this is a complex solution or that it takes a long time to carry out, but it is at least tedious if we take into account that it should not have to be used if the computer works normally.
Given that it occurs with both Thunderbolt and HDMI cables and in different screen brands, it can be assumed that it is a generic Mac problem whose origin could be found in the software. If so, it will be necessary to check if it is resolved in macOS 11.3, the next version of the operating system that will arrive in several weeks. Therefore, if you are one of those affected, you only have to wait for this to happen.
We remember other failures of these computers
Before the aforementioned problem with external monitors, these Mac mini M1s had other tedious bugs in previous versions of macOS. The first buyers of these computers complained about a bad connection of these with Bluetooth accessories, something that Apple took several weeks to solve completely because its updates had not been effective. Fortunately, it seems that in macOS 11.2.3, the latest version of the system available, there is no longer any bug related to it.
In any case, it helps us to see how, despite the good reviews in general that these teams are giving, they are not exempt from faults either. This should not tarnish the user experience with them either, since the change with respect to the generations with Intel chips has been very noticeable at all levels. We understand that these problems are ultimately typical of these first versions and that with the passage of time these problems will diminish, despite how tedious they may seem and how understandable it is that there are complaints about them.