And the MacBook Pro 14" M1 hooked up to the same Dell=also misery.
This monitor is FINE with my old 2015 MBP 13" (which can no longer run the new OS, and is barely alive.)
I have a sensation of glare at low brightness, text moving or being impossible to focus on, and just an instantaneous eyeball/forehead headache from hell using the M2 with the external monitor. It's like my eyes can't help but flicker between the black of the text and the white of the screen behind it, if that makes sense, rather than seeing it as a "whole." Hard to describe…the monitor feels too close and too far at the same time, and like my eyeballs are being forced to work independently. And my eyes get dry. I have NO other issues like this.
The headache is almost instantaneous, mostly in my eyes/forehead, and getting away helps immediately.
I have very close to perfect vision, but I do have a VERY slight convergence issue. I have not bothered to correct it with lenses because it's barely there and doesn't annoy me. At least not until now?
I've tried brightening/dimming, different resolutions and text sizes, and switching to an RGB profile (which may have helped slightly?)
I'm seeing mixed info in the other threads. Do we have consensus on the following?
- The M2 Air is PWM-free? Or was this a poorly done test…
- The issue may be dithering? Other sources say dithering is not present in this machine
- It sounds like going back a few OS's, or making some changes to dithering might help—has this borne out on the M2s?
- Has the main problem been identified?
For my own purposes…
- Would a different external monitor help? This one only refreshes up to 60hz. If so, which one? I like quality but I'm not editing photos or anything.
- Should I start over with a different laptop, and if so, which one? I'm in the Apple ecosystem, so that's ideal, but maybe it's time to leave. I am an advertising contractor, and most people in advertising just use Macs. Practically, though, the most CPU-intensive thing I do is run multi-layer Photoshops, occasionally. I am still within the (short) return window on this machine.
I truly appreciate that this forum exists. I can update on how the laptop screen itself works later, for now I'm just trying to get it functioning in desktop mode.
Thanks in advance!