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Why Your New M1 MacBook Can't Use Your Monitor As An External Display

Mar 05, 2021

I bought a new M1 MacBook and was super excited to use it. My monitor has a USB-C input. The MacBook comes with a USB-C cable. Awesome. Plug everything up. Not so awesome. The monitor could not be used as an external display for the Ma...

I bought a new M1 MacBook and was super excited to use it. My monitor has a USB-C input. The MacBook comes with a USB-C cable. Awesome. Plug everything up. Not so awesome. The monitor could not be used as an external display for the MacBook. I called Apple Support, who were super nice but not helpful in the least. They had me reboot the computer, connect and disconnect, etc but nothing worked. Finally, I found an obscure thread on the Internet saying that it was the cable. The cable? Could it be? Yes. I bought [this cable](https://amzn.to/3c2y09X) and it worked right away. The USB-C cable that comes with this super-sophisticated MacBook doesn’t work for external displays.

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