Thankfully, a mate had one handily available (as a spare). Now, searching for a USB-C to DisplayPort 1.4 locally here in Malaysia wasn’t very easy and when I turned to the usual online stores such as Shopee, all sellers were from overseas which meant it would take time for it to be shipped here. With just two available USB-C ports on the MacBook Pro M1, it looked like I would need to use one port dedicated for the monitor. Xiaomi 34″ Ultrawide monitor is a great tool for work I checked to make sure that the connection was stable and tried other HDMI cables such as 4K rated HDMI cables and of course HDMI 2.0 cables.Īfter a quick search around the internet, I found that in order for Macs to use a 144Hz refresh rate on the monitor, one would need a monitor that had USB-C support (that meant that the monitor has a USB-C port) or for the Mac to connect to the monitor using a DisplayPort 1.4 cable (the Xiaomi has 2 HDMI ports and 2 DisplayPort ports). What I did notice was that when I did that, I could only select a refresh rate of only 50Hz. I was trying to connect my MacBook Pro M1 laptop to the Xiaomi monitor via a USB-C hub (I use a Baseus 17-in-1 USB-C hub) and connecting an HDMI cable to it. Because of the pandemic, this became my main work-from-home monitor where I would hook up my MacBook Pro M1 to the monitor. One of the main reasons I purchased the Xiaomi 34″ UltraWide monitor was because of the screen real estate.