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Is anyone running their M1 mini + LG Ultrafine 5K flawlessly?

KennyJr said:
Just buy an iMac? Well ..

I bought a Mac mini M1 so I could run Big Sur on my iMac Pro.
Experimented using my iMac as a larger display for the Mac mini M1.
Found that the iMac was pretty slow compared to when I used it as a monitor for my much faster Mac mini M1.
Sold my iMac and bought an LG 32UD99 32" monitor to be used with my M1 Mac mini.

It's like having a really fast iMac .. and .. being able to display 2 FULL pages side by side .. Best of both worlds.
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waste of money tbh

The latest equivalent imac would have a better graphics card and just as quick with a screen designed for it

pretty sure people who buy mac mini don't want to spend £500+ on a monitor lol


tbh i think mac mini are supposed to be used headless
 
mini5apple said:
waste of money tbh

The latest equivalent imac would have a better graphics card and just as quick with a screen designed for it

pretty sure people who buy mac mini don't want to spend £500+ on a monitor lol


tbh i think mac mini are supposed to be used headless
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Wow.

Let me tell you you are absolutely wrong. In fact, you cannot be more wrong.

The mac mini is actually quite a powerhouse for a low-end device. It only lacks a 10 TFLOPS GPU to be considered as a true compute powerhouse to me. But this will come and I’m persuaded a Mac Mini Pro with M1X is in the pipeline with improved core counts and GPU performance.

Where you are wrong is at a Mac Mini cannot have an high end monitor. Why on Earth would a mac mini not be suited for a high end monitor when it packs the performance it has ?! Yes, it’s hard to beat an iMac monitor-wise, but a high quality 4K monitor like the one of this user can rival with the iMac.

And where you are absolutely wrong is at thr Mac mini is supposed to be headless ?! On which planet do you live ?! The Mac Mini can be used as a server, yes, but this represent a tiny portion of the market. People want a Mac Mini for budget purpose. It’s when you have all yiur peripherals and still want to benefit from the power of UNIX. It’s a developper mac. It’s a power user mac than now can be used for graphics intensive apps more than ever before. It‘s a powerful mac than can be both used as a budget mac or a high end mac despite its low-end CPU.It’s more powerful than 90% of the PCs being sold actually.
 
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To the original question, I have a M1 Mini (16G/1TB) and the LG 5K display.

It's pretty flawless, works as I would expect, takes about 3 to wake up, but that is the same as it takes my other LG 5K on a 2018 13" MacPro to wake up. I just timed it.

Intermittently, I get a column of pixels shifted up. I reliabily fix this by putting it to sleep (by setting up one hot corner to Lock Screen) and then waking it up. No reboot or reconnect required.

As I said, it's pretty flawless. I am very happy with the M1 Mini and the LG 5K display.
 
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mini5apple said:
waste of money tbh

The latest equivalent imac would have a better graphics card and just as quick with a screen designed for it

pretty sure people who buy mac mini don't want to spend £500+ on a monitor lol


tbh i think mac mini are supposed to be used headless
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Not really wanting to bust your bubble, but the slow (compared to the Mac mini M1) iMac I mentioned, the one I sold, WAS the latest equivalent iMac. I far prefer what I have now over what I had then.
 
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BobHinden said:
To the original question, I have a M1 Mini (16G/1TB) and the LG 5K display.

It's pretty flawless, works as I would expect, takes about 3 to wake up, but that is the same as it takes my other LG 5K on a 2018 13" MacPro to wake up. I just timed it.

Intermittently, I get a column of pixels shifted up. I reliabily fix this by putting it to sleep (by setting up one hot corner to Lock Screen) and then waking it up. No reboot or reconnect required.

As I said, it's pretty flawless. I am very happy with the M1 Mini and the LG 5K display.
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Pixels shifting?

this my point, the mac mini ALWAYS has problems with 3rd party monitors

either waking up or no brightness slider to name a few,

Theres countless problems people are reporting all over the internet

an equivalent spec imac is more RELIABLE than a mac mini & £500+ monitor, prove me wrong
 
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KennyJr said:
Not really wanting to bust your bubble, but the slow (compared to the Mac mini M1) iMac I mentioned, the one I sold, WAS the latest equivalent iMac. I far prefer what I have now over what I had then.
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maybe you do but 99% of other people wont, the mac mini is flawed
 
pldelisle said:
Wow.

Let me tell you you are absolutely wrong. In fact, you cannot be more wrong.

The mac mini is actually quite a powerhouse for a low-end device. It only lacks a 10 TFLOPS GPU to be considered as a true compute powerhouse to me. But this will come and I’m persuaded a Mac Mini Pro with M1X is in the pipeline with improved core counts and GPU performance.

Where you are wrong is at a Mac Mini cannot have an high end monitor. Why on Earth would a mac mini not be suited for a high end monitor when it packs the performance it has ?! Yes, it’s hard to beat an iMac monitor-wise, but a high quality 4K monitor like the one of this user can rival with the iMac.

And where you are absolutely wrong is at thr Mac mini is supposed to be headless ?! On which planet do you live ?! The Mac Mini can be used as a server, yes, but this represent a tiny portion of the market. People want a Mac Mini for budget purpose. It’s when you have all yiur peripherals and still want to benefit from the power of UNIX. It’s a developper mac. It’s a power user mac than now can be used for graphics intensive apps more than ever before. It‘s a powerful mac than can be both used as a budget mac or a high end mac despite its low-end CPU.It’s more powerful than 90% of the PCs being sold actually.
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All you can write is "oh its more powerful" lol with no real proof only jargon pie charts/graphs and some paid youtube shill

however in the real world its the same speed as the equivalent spec imac
 
joevt said:
I've got pixel shifting on my Mac mini 2018 with W5700 eGPU in Big Sur when I do 4K 80Hz or higher refresh rate. It's a horizontal shift to the left of the left half of the display such that the middle 16 or 32 pixels is duplicated. The problem does not occur in Catalina.
In the picture, you can see the Apple menu is shifted to the left and there's a column of duplicated pixels in the middle.
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Here is my case of pixel shifting. Very strange. Didn't happen for 10 days of daily usage but just now again.

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BobHinden said:
I updated yesterday afternoon. My Magic Mouse is more responsive, so far I haven't seen the pixel shifting, but it's too too to tell, it doesn't happen all of the time.
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That’s good. Any other problems you’ve been running into with 11.2?
 
@Hessel89 @nothingtoseehere So Far so good with 11.2. No issue today, so fingers crossed!

Oh and @mini5apple I bought this expensive 5k screen for my M1 Mac Mini. It replaces my late 2015 i7, I nearly bought the latest i9 iMac. This screen will outlive the Mac Mini M1 and I can also use it with my MacBook Pro.
 
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Well that didn't last long! Fired up the Mac Mini and LG 5k this morning and the pixel shift issue is there already 😕
I created a "Hot Corner" which sleeps the screen, this clears the issue. Before I was rebooting, now I can fix it in a second.

If there is a fault with either my Mac or screen I will look into getting a replacement. If its just a compatibility issue and this is all that happens then I'll just live with it. I'm not that fussy!
 
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Garry Mac said:
Well that didn't last long! Fired up the Mac Mini and LG 5k this morning and the pixel shift issue is there already 😕
I created a "Hot Corner" which sleeps the screen, this clears the issue. Before I was rebooting, now I can fix it in a second.

If there is a fault with either my Mac or screen I will look into getting a replacement. If its just a compatibility issue and this is all that happens then I'll just live with it. I'm not that fussy!
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It's probably your Mac.. I run multiple Intel Macs and have owned 3 LG Ultrafine 5K screens till now and I've never had the pixel shift issue.. or anything like it. With 11.2 still not fixing the issue I'm now leaning towards skipping the M1 Mini.. Almost seems like a beta product with all those hardware issues I've been reading about..
 
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@Hessel89 Yeah, I think it's the Mac also. I don't think it's faulty in the sense that Apple can replace it with a working one, I have a feeling all Mac Mini M1's are affected. I hope it can be fixed with a software update, but we'll see.

Although I don't believe it to be acceptable if it doesn't get fixed, the issue isn't bad enough for me worry. Just poking my mouse into the corner of the screen fixes it!

I love the Mini for many reasons, it is much quicker than my late 2015 i7 iMac, and my 2018 MacBook Pro i7. It really is silent, and only gets warm when running processor intense jobs for hours at a time. Both my iMac and MacBook would get hot and noisy when doing this. I'd have no worry running a 3d render over night on the mini.

Ignoring the issues myself and others have reported I still think unless you need a machine right now I would wait for a second generation model to be released. I would also like a couple more Thunderbolt 4/USBC ports.

But to contradict myself, I'm still glad I bought it 🤷‍♂️, so go figure!
 
Screw it.. I just ordered one. Will be delivered tomorrow. I just have to see for myself. Keeping my Intel Mac mini until I'm done testing the M1. I'll keep ya guys posted.
 
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Update: So I've received my Mac mini M1 this afternoon.
It's been on for 8 hours now and definitely no pixel shifting or any other problems with the LG Ultrafine.

I do have to admit is that the Bluetooth problem actually exists. Updating to 11.2 largely seems to have to solved the BT issue. No disconnects, although it still doesn't feel quite as tight as on my 2018 Mac mini..

Does it feel like an upgrade to my 2018 Mac mini? To be honest, in normal usage (browsing the web etc) I can't really notice the difference. Both are just as snappy, although I'm surprised I can actually play games on this thing. I'd say the graphics are about as powerful as an RX560. Definitely not earth shattering, but for still very impressive for a Mac Mini without discrete graphics.

Unfortunately haven't been able to really test it for my specific use-case though, which is music production.
This is because my Thunderbolt 3 based Audio interface has no M1 compatible driver yet. I've contacted the vendor, and supposedly those are coming out within a few weeks, but it looks like that'll be too late, to test within my return window, so I'll probably end up returning this Mac mini anyway..
Which isn't an issue, since I ordered the base spec 8GB version, and for audio I'd prefer to have 16GBs.

All and all I'm pretty positive about the M1 Mini, but I wouldn't say it's worth upgrading. (yet) :)
 
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I'm now running 11.3 Beta 2 and am still experiencing issues. Tested with both DisplayPort 1.2 and 1.4.

At this stage my setup is so unstable it is unusable. This is the worst piece of hardware I have purchased from Apple since the launch of OSX.
 
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