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@SusanC - Glad to hear you've found work around(s) / solutions.  

@Electromen- Thanks for the heads up re Monterey USB-C issues.

UPDATE - I've successfully upgraded to MacOS Monterey 12.0.1 and X13 is working well on both monitors.  Yay!  See system details below in signature.

Hi Susan -

Thank you for sharing the details of your setup.

The cable connecting my primary monitor is USB-C (at the Mac Mini) to Displayport at the monitor.  Its function is probably similar to the Amiroko adapter...

Monterey will probably work fine - but right at the moment I'm still hesitating to install the upgrade as I'm also running on M1 / Apple Silicon instead of Intel and also haven't seen any "success" posts on ChiefTalk for that combination (MacOS Monterey / M1).  I'll post an update if/when I do upgrade to let you know if I experience the same issue with either of my external monitors.

Thanks again,

Mark

I'm using a Mini so I only have external monitors - what type of external monitor has the issue?  How is it connected (HDMI, USB-C, dongle for DVI)?  What's the tech issue?

Thanks.

I’m thinking about upgrading to MacOS Monterey in the next day or two.  Do your follow up comments mean you are now using X13 successfully?  Able to Print to PDF? Save-As? 

What type of Mac?  Intel or M1 / Apple Silicon?

Currently for me:

2020 M1 Mac Mini 8GB

2 4K Monitors (one HDMI, one USB-C)

X13 running well

Thanks.

Thank you @Electromen (Greg) and @rgardner (Ryan) - that is very much appreciated news.  

I've attached (I hope!) the response I received from support - is there a better way of "contacting Chief"?

UPDATED - checked using eGPU (external GPU) - looks like the new M1 Macs do not yet support that...

MY INFO - Running CA X12 Premier on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 on fully loaded MacBook Pro 15" Mid-2014 with dual 4K monitors - will add this to my signature when I figure out how to do that

Upgrading to the new MacBook Pro 13" M1 would give me a CPU bump of a factor of at least 3-5; and, a GPU bump of a factor of 3.  But they require Big Sur.  As far as RayTracing, yes that would be nice, but so would a less sluggish system.

I did contact Chief directly as suggested and got a reply which says X12 will probably not run on Big Sur on my existing Intel MacBook Pro; to me that means I've got to figure out how to get ongoing security updates for other applications without upgrading MacOS.  And, X12 will probably not run in Apple Rosetta (the backward compatibility emulator) on the new M1 systems.  There's also no plan for X13 due in Q1 2021 to support the new M1 Macs.  And, support in general for Big Sur on Intel or using Rosetta is an open question.

I'm also about to upgrade my Mac - currently have an aging MacBook Pro 15" that runs X12 ok but not well with a pair of external 4K 24" monitors.

Has anyone heard anything about X12 (or X13) support for the Apple Silicon MacBooks expected to announce next week and be available later this month?

Thanks.

Hi - 

I need to upgrade an aging Mac I'm currently using with X12 Premier.

Has anyone heard anything about Chief Architect support for macOS 11 Big Sur?

What about support for the new Apple Silicon Mac systems getting released next week?

There's nothing about either in https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02761/chief-architect-minimum-system-requirements.html

The only hardware details are multi-core CPU, 4GB RAM, 5GB disk space and 1GB VRAM.

Thanks.