Apple Cinema Display 30’’ with M1 Apple Silicon Mac

I have a USBc hub with a display port and an ethernet port. It also has 4 USB ports but I found if I plug anything in them then I start having monitor issues. So I plugged a USBc to USB into the second USBc port on my Mac and plugged a four port hub into that for my USB devices.

I've done some homework and can say the MBA or MBP M1s definitely won't work with 2 external displays, natively.

You can add more than one display if you use DisplayLink but that requires drivers and taxes the CPU etc.

I've ordered the OWC thunderbolt dock and will power 1 x 30" ADC through that.

This solution still has 2 flaws.

1 - If the MacBook goes to sleep, the screen no longer displays anything. You have to disconnect the cable and reconnect it .

2 - The resolution of 2560x1600 is a little blurred.

This one will work with Mac or PC, I have connected one 30" ACD to my 13" MacPro M1, while connecting this dock https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/docks/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock to my 2013 Mac Pro to two 30" ACD. (Apple thunderbolt 2 to TB 3 adapter). Also connected one ACD with Choetech USB-c to Mini DisplayPort + PD Adapter Model HUB-M06. (will be putting it on eBay since the hub works. Charger on it is 60W. Have a second open box owc-thunderbolt 3 on the way to test two a once on the M1.

• By the way the above setup can switch my set up from to 2 displays on the 2013 MacPro to one, while running the second on the M1. Kinda of neat, but end game is two on the M1 PB

I am the same. Just want to keep those ACD’s yes I be able to connect only one and only using usb-c to mini display and then original dual link dvi to mini display. I never be able to get another one going over hdmi with many different combinations of cables.

Apple loves to mark their stuff obsolete so that they no longer have to support it.

I've been with Apple since the eighties. It wasn’t always like this. But then again Apple almost went bankrupt before Steve Jobs came back.

Apple has figured out how to lease equipment without actually saying that they at leasing you the equipment. You know when your lease is up because your device will no longer run the newer operating system that newer software needs.

the main reason I just upgraded from my 2011 17” MacBook to the MacBook Air M1 was due to needing to run some newer software. Keeping my old Mscbook to run some 32bit programs.

But OMG this MacBook Air M1 is one nice super fast machine and as I have it connected to my old 30” Apple display I don’t mind that it has a small display. It put my old 17 inch MacBook to shame.

I apologize in advance if the answer to my q is somewhere buried in this long thread. I have my Apple Cinema Display 30" connected to my MacBookAir 2020 M1 using a Club 3d brand USB-C to Dual-Link DVI Adapter cable (https://www.amazon.com/CAC-1510-Adapter-Displays-3840x2160-2560x1600/dp/B08B7FSVTL/ref=asc_df_B08B7FSVTL/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459728334703&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2390013022828269888&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9052941&hvtargid=pla-946946059435&psc=1).

Questions:

1) Are people connecting to the ACD 30" with displayPort and if so, how, as mine has only a DVI cable?

2) Has anyone figured out how to get the laptop to "remember" both the full resolution and the screen arrangement? Often and randomly, when I close the lid on my laptop, and later reopen it, the ACD resolution has gone back to 1280 x 800 and the arrangement of screens is forgotten, defaulting to side by side.

Thanks in advance for any guidance/illumination!

Zac

So I installed 11.1, 11.2.1 and 11.3 beta 2 on a Thunderbolt 3 drive. They all boot up fine on my 6 core Mac mini 2018 and they all work with my ACD 30". I plugged the thunderbolt drive to my Mac mini M1 and none of the versions would boot!?....back to square one :(I will try to install 11.3 from my M1 to the external

Hi,

I have the old Cinema HD 30" with dual DVI. I bought the original apple adapter to get the Mini DP output. Then I bought a Mini DP to Thunderbolt 3 adapter.It worked great with an Apple MacBook Pro 2017. HOWEVER now with my new MacBook Air M1 I only get a very poor display resolution...that is not worth using. So as you I am looking for a new solution. Some help please!

It’s a Lenovo one with the displaylink 3700 series chip inside. The latest displaylink for Mac software is compatible with it, I was expecting to pay around $100 for a displaylink but it appears ex corporate is cheap! And if it doesn’t work I’ll use it on my thinkpad!

Apple Cinema Display 30’’ with M1 Apple Silicon Mac, and 2020 M1 Silicon Mac, Wikipedia says "Due to the high resolution (2560×1600), the 30-inch model requires a graphics card that supports dual-link DVI" Apple sales tells me I may use an Apple HDMI to DVI Adapter, which is female DVI receiver (adaptor) which has a male HDMI that one may plug into the HDMI port on the Mac mini mi. The same monitor has a USB plug which Apple says may be left out and also monitor has a firewire plug that may be put into the firewire port on the Mac mini. M1. And they state the Apple Cinema Display 30" will work.

The enclosed diagram shows the cord connection from the 30" Apple Cinema Display manual connected to a G-4 Mac tower

Hope this will work. Just ordered the adaptor cord. https://www.apple.com/shop/mac/accessories/power-cables?page=1&f=singlelinkdvi&fh=4595%2B43ec

Gaol is to get Mac Mini M1 to work with 30inch Apple Cinema Display

That is not what I did. If you followed my post I used a dual link dvi to usb-c adapter from microcenter. Sounds to me that one of your adapters has stopped working though because there is no reason why what you did wouldn’t work.

Do you have the thunderbolt or the non-thunderbolt version Cinema Display?

I think this adapter only work with the thunderbolt displays, and it might not work with the mini display port version.

Sometimes I have to indeed unplug / replug - sometimes it’s fine 😬

Option key worked like a charm! Do not understand why this amazing monitor isn't as well supported on M1 macbook air as on 2018 Macbook Pro, with both running big sur. But, just happy it works.