If you’ve been using an Apple Silicon Mac with an external display for photo and video editing, you may have noticed a few issues. Whether it’s ultra-wide monitors not displaying correctly, calibration software not working right, or high-end monitors displaying in YCrCb mode instead of RGB, Apple Silicon still has a bunch of issues with color-accurate monitors.
For over six months, I’ve been using the Apple M1 Mac mini as my daily driver for everything from day-to-day writing work, to content consumption, to evaluating the high-end color-accurate displays that I review here on PetaPixel. For the most part, the M1 mini has been fantastic: a boon for performance, whisper-quiet, and shockingly fast even when using Intel-optimized apps through Rosetta 2. But there’s one area where Apple Silicon is still a huge pain for creators: color-accurate monitors.
Something about the way the M1 chip communicates with an external display has changed, leaving monitor makers and color calibration companies scrambling to release firmware and software updates to address compatibility issues.
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