mac mini 2018 display help!
I’m here because after almost exhausting every possibility I can think of I don’t know how to make my Mac mini 2018 perform like a decent computer. I’ll explain.
Computer is fully specced-up and for basic tasks it’s a charm, to say the least; but, I bought it for music production and it is just painful to see the lag ruin my creative workflow. I’m connecting a LG 55” 4K display through USB-C. No matter what resolution I use, both high & low, when I’m working on my projects it takes a few minutes before the lag becomes noticeable and it is just discouraging to carry on. There are no issues with the playback, the specs are doing their thing there but scrolling, editing, swiping is all just a patience test. I opted for buying an external EGPU which apple recommends for the Mac mini by BlackMagic and although it improved the graphics performance by about 30-40% the lag always returned so I returned the graphics card because it isn’t worth over £500 just to get a slightly better result than before. As for the external monitor the TV is on Game mode, prior to having a 55” display I had a 27” 4K monitor and it would do exactly the same thing.
I’ve read a lot about this issue on other forums and I just don’t know how to make it work. On another note, I have a 2012 MacBook Pro dual-core that shows absolutely no lag when running any project but the lack of ram and cores does not allow me to use it as a permanent machine.
What I struggle to understand is how a machine worth almost £1500 that has no display cannot even handle 1 single monitor on heavy workloads. It makes me so sad that I spent so much money on something that cannot keep up with more than a few minutes of work.
I welcome every recommendation or suggestion to make it work.
thank you
Mac mini, macOS 11.4