If you are interested in getting the same cable, you can click on this link here or you can find any USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4 and make sure in the specs that it can support This would enable you to achieve a with your Mac M1. I guess that once you are already used to a high refresh rate monitor, I would try my best to achieve that performance. Now many have asked me what games would I be playing on it but I went through all of this just to know that Macs could achieve 144Hz on external monitors and I mainly use the monitor for work. Thankfully a mate had one in had so after a quick drive to his place, I borrowed his cable and voila, I was able to connect the Macbook Pro to my Xiaomi 34″ ultrawide monitor and use it at the 144Hz it was designed for. Now, finding for a USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4 locally here in Malaysia wasn’t very easy and when I turned to the usual online stores such as Shopee, all sellers were from overseas which meant it would take time. Xiaomi 34″ Ultrawide monitor is a great tool for workĪs the Macbook Pro M1 only had two USB-C ports, that meant that I would need to use one port dedicated for the monitor.
I checked to make sure that the connection was stable and tried other HDMI cables such as 4K rated HDMI cables and of course HDMI 2.0 cables.Īfter a quick search around the internet, I found that in order for Macs to be able to use a 144Hz refresh rate on the monitor, one would need a monitor that had USB-C support (that meant that the monitor has a USB-C port) or for the Mac to connect to the monitor using a DisplayPort 1.4 cable (the Xiaomi has 2 HDMI ports and 2 Display Port ports). What I did notice was that when I did that, I could only select a refresh rate of only 50Hz. I was trying to connect my Macbook Pro M1 laptop to the Xiaomi monitor via a USB-C hub (I use a Baseus 17-in-1 USB-C hub) and connecting an HDMI cable to it. Due to the pandemic, this became my main work-from-home monitor where I would hook up my Macbook Pro M1 to the monitor. One of the main reasons why I purchased the Xiaomi 34″ Ultrawide monitor was because of the screen real estate.
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