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by afvictory 1450 days ago
I haven't run into the visual issues you mention but I've definitely run into a lot of problems regarding failure to wake.

Currently using: 2 Gigabyte M28Us (scaled to 1440p) and 1 Dell S2716DGR, all running at 144hz on various different Macs. One of the M28us is passing through the mouse, keyboard, and webcam.

I don't have any issues with the 2017 era MacBook Pro using random display port to USB-C cables I bought off amazon.

I did have a bunch of issues with the M1 Pro MacBook. I used it exclusively in clamshell mode and 90% of the time it failed to wake up and detect the monitors in general. To get it working, I had to continuously unplug and plug the cables back in. Sometimes this worked on the first try, other times it took 10 minutes of messing with the cables. I upgraded to using certified Thunderbolt 4 cables on the M28Us but that didn't fix the problem.

Currently I'm running a baseline Mac Studio. The biggest issue I have is that the display order changes most of the time when I wake the computer. Every now and then it seems to not pick up one of my displays and I have to unplug it and plug it back in. It's a little bit annoying but definitely not as frustrating at the M1 Pro MacBook.

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> but I've definitely run into a lot of problems regarding failure to wake.

In starting t belove there's just some collective failures with modern laptop power design. Multiple laptops from different manufacturers have had similar power issues waking up from sleep states and many even went on to just straight up die, as nothing seemed to power up anymore.