| I just want my 2 external monitors to work, 1 in portrait, the other in landscape in my M1 MacBook Pro. I bought a Pluggable doc, for $300, of course it wasn’t until after I couldn’t get it to work did Pluggable team tell me it wouldn’t work, “a known problem”, which they didn’t disclose. This was 7-8 months ago. I needed the extra ports so I kept the dock, and used both monitors in landscape mode, it killed my productivity. About 2 months ago I needed to reboot my machine, Zoom couldn’t find audio. When the machine restarted one of the monitors was in portrait mode, it hadn’t been configured in portrait mode, but it was in portrait mode. I hadn’t done any updates, automatic updates are turned off. Then machine started with 1 monitor in portrait mode. Everyone tells me it can’t work, Pluggable, Apple, Apple support forums. This experience tells me the M1 release was half baked at least on the OS side. The product was rushed to market maybe to capture market segment, maybe because component parts were already allocated, and shipping the M1 devices would help Apple to offset lost sales due to parts availability for the Intel Mac’s. Hard to say, but I would have also expected something as trivial as rotating the display to be available without the need to buy a 3rd party $300 device, that isn’t supposed to work. |