Turns out, just about every cable you can find that is USB-C on one end and HDMI on the other goes the opposite direction that you need it to in order to get a second monitor up and running on your M1 Mac Mini.īut with some trial and error, I was able to get it work. I even tried the aforementioned AV Multiport Adapter, and sure enough no luck. While there plenty of USB-C to HDMI cables to choose from (Apple even sells their own USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter), almost all of them are unidirectional (meaning they can send data in only one direction.) That means that a USB-C to HDMI is NOT the same as an HDMI to USB-C cable, which is what I needed for the LG display. Here’s where things get tricky: you cannot use a standard USB-C to HDMI cable. That means if you buy your computer and monitors from Apple, you have to convert the HDMI source from the M1 Mac Mini to USB-C before you can use two displays. I find a little strange, since Apple doesn’t currently sell an HDMI monitor. So while I could hook one up via USB-C/Thunderbolt 4, the other one had to be connected via HDMI. The problem with the LG Ultrafine monitors is that they are both USB-C. Just hook up your second monitor using a standard HDMI cable and you’re done. If you have an HDMI monitor you want to hook up to your M1 Mac Mini, that’s pretty straightforward.
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