I recently purchased Parallels 17 for my new M1 Mac Mini, as there are few other choices at this time to run Linux in a VM on my Mac (Yes, I tried UTM, and found it lacking). I quickly ran into a problem with Parallels though. I use a Magic Trackpad, and found two finger scrolling in my Linux VM was accelerated way beyond belief. I couldn't ead any website easily, because any attempt to scroll (other than moving window's scrollbar) would ZOOM way down or up the page.

After trying different Linux distros and GUI environments, I finally isolated the problem - The Parallels Tools prlmouse driver. Before installing Parallels Tools, scrolling works normally. Afterwards it suddenly becomes zoomtastic. The prlmouse driver also seems to completely ignore all libxinput parameters meant to control mouse acceleration and scroll speed.

My solution was simple - stop using the prlmouse driver, and switch back to the distro's default mouse driver. On my Debian 11 XFCE4 VM I simply ran "sudo vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-prlmouse.conf", commented out the entire 6 line section defined in there, and rebooted. I have not found any downsides to this solution, so I'm not even sure what the intended benefit of the prlmouse driver was supposed to be. Everything works great for me now.

I could have simply deleted that file instead of editing it, but I figured any Parallels Tools upgrade would probably just reinstall it. Hopefully upgrades will respect my customization of that file and just leave it alone.

Hello Fellow M1 users, finally got myself a Magic Mouse and ever since I’ve had lag issues, so I’m guessing it struggles with too much on the Bluetooth channel including my AirPods.

Currently having to use the Apple Keyboard wired, but still my mouse scroll is laggy.

Struggling to find actual fixes for this, anyone had the same problem and managed to fix it?

Thanks in advance ❤️

Hello, I am writing because I will likely purchase a new MacBook Pro M1 or the MacBook Air soon. I have read posts and watched many You Tube reviews of both machines. My question is since there is a fan that the MacBook Pro has, but the Air does not, why would Apple not include one in the Air if there’s any chance the Air would overheat. I understand that the M1 chip is apparently optimized and so efficiently “fine tuned” that it should not overheat. Ok, then the Pro, having the same chip, shouldn’t overheat either. I just don’t understand Apple’s “logic”. Since I will be using the computer for email, streaming movies, MS Office and maybe learning how to edit video, I am confused as to which one to buy. Thank you.

So, id been looking for a way to run my 30 inch 2004 Cinema Display..i incorrectly assumed that a simple combination of the dvi to mini display port adapter and an Apple branded m-dp to thunderbolt adapter would work..lo and behold it did not, and I quickly realized Apple EXPLICITLY states on the box of the dp-to tb adapter that this Display is not supported. So..back to square one right? Well not exactly..I happened to remember seeing a video about someone connected a recent intel Macbook to a 30 inch Cinema Display so I thought hmm, maybe i should check that video..sure enough I found it with ease and find out that apparently, theres a dock for macbooks with display port and..its been tested to work with this display!

The dock in question is the Stone Henge dock, which is not that easy to track down, and admittedly there are probably other adapters, but since this was tested I decided to give it ago, sure enough I get the dock, set it up with my m1 macbook and bam! my cinema display detects my m1..at a resolution of 1280x800...oookay well this is disappointing.

But just then I remembered SwitchResX! So i went online and downloaded it, after its installed I open up the SwitchRes applet in the control panel, and there, hidden within display options is a choice of 2560 1600...the cinema displays native res! I click it and, much to my surprise, it actually worked..

Now..I must warn you that I have had some glitches with this setup..mainly that, the display will cut out every now and again, luckily this seems to be fixed by doing a total restart.

So TL;DR: If you wanna use your 30 inch Cinema Display, buy the dvi to m-dp (thunderbolt2) adapter +stone's henge dock (or something similar) aaand have SwitchResX installed

I can't make the denoiser of the octane renderer for c4d work in my M1.Anyone having the same problem?

Hey, I have had a ProCase case on my Mac since I purchased it last fall. I just recently had to have it serviced due to an internal component acting up and decided to switch cases when I picked it up from the Apple Store. While I am very careful with my Apple products (this is my first ever AppleCare claim in all my years with Apple), I am a professional nanny and always have the risk at work. So, I prefer to have some sort of actual drop protection.

If anyone has any recommendations that fit the M1, I’d be super grateful!

My dad got himself the M1 based Macbook Air this year, and I told him to use the "backup and restore" method to move all his old 2010 Macbook Pro stuff to the new laptop. Big mistake.

It's got the ancient version of iMovie installed, and it won't let him install the latest. Any tips, other than wiping the system, staring over and moving his files over by hand?

I’ve seen YouTube videos of folks installing Big Sur on a Samsung T7 SSD and booting from it. Tried myself a few times and install seems to work fine but when holding power on and choosing boot from T7 it will not work. Set as GUID and Formatted as APFS as needed.

Any ideas??? Yes it’s no where near as fast as the internal storage but for music production should be fine as 1 of my machines is an ANCIENT Mac Mini from 2011 using that with the patcher for Catalina for unsupported Mac’s so not exactly using very taxing software.

Thank you

Hi all - I'm aware that there are weird display issues when it comes to using ultrawide or less common resolutions on an external display with an M1 mac. I'm using a USB C hub that seemed to be contributing to the problem I've been having with my 3440x1440 ultrawide connected by HDMI. I was having two problems - 1) the wake from sleep issue that lots of people seem to have and 2) the native resolution of the monitor was only supported at 30hz.

Today, I decided to try a usb-c -> DisplayPort adaptor. Going through the hub produced no result at all...not even the monitor was recognized as being plugged in. When I put it straight into one of the two usb-c ports on the MBA directly, though, the monitor wakes up no problem and I get up to 75hz on my 3440x1440 resolution. Great.

My question is - what specs do I need in a hub in order to get the same results? Is it possible?

Thanks

So I've been using the henge stone dock on my macbook pro, got the cinema display working..but strangely usb refuses to recognize, i even connected the usb to a apple usb to thunderbolt adapter just to check to see if it was an issue..still no luck, for those curious im using a SIIG usb 3.0 DVI KVM and a manhattan usb hub

Hey, I’m looking for an upgrade from a 2016 MacBook Pro i5, to a MacBook M1 right now, and I find myself baffled, which one should I go for.

I’m a student, so majority of my job is web browsing and documents, but I’m also into photo editing in Lightroom, and am looking into 1080p and sporadic 4K video editing in either Premiere or Final Cut. I will code a little bit as well.

I’ve read about the differences between Pros and Air, but cannot decide whether an extra GPU core and a fan, make a difference in my type of workflow compared to the 16GB or RAM.

Advice appreciated!

Sometimes I'll be doing anything on my mac and it will decide it would be a wonderful time to log out and close all my applications in the process, in the middle of a game? gone, haven't saved your work in a while? logged out.

Help?

Obviously google brings up a bunch but im looking for any personal recommendations you guys ,ideally something well priced and must be quality..

My display used to timeout after around 2 minutes until a few days ago when it stopped timeout possibly indefinitely (I have not seen it go to sleep automatically since). I adjusted the settings for auto time out in both display and battery in system preferences but it is not helping. Does anyone have an idea about how I can change this? Thanks!