If your Macbook Pro M4 is fully charged and you run it off the power adapter and you plug in earphones to the 3.5 mm jack and play no audio, you'll here static/CPU noise especially when scrolling on a webpage or something. It doesn't happen when you unplug the charger, or charge it via usb c on the right side.
It's not a grounding/dirty power issue and even if it is, it's still a design flaw as other laptops don't have this problem. Can't believe Apple still hasn't fixed it ... terrible idea moving the audio jack to the same side as the charger. This issue has existed since the M1:
I bought a usb c to 3.5 mm jack dac, so I can use my preferred wired earphones (that don't break down after 2 months like most do) on the right side and avoid this problem only to find out almost all usb c to audio jack dongles don't work with the new macbooks, they don't get recognized. What is the point of having a usb c port, if it's not universal???? No doubt to force you to buy Apple's version.
I tried 2 different non-official dacs that don't have the noodle wire that Apple makes, before giving up and buying Apple's dongle.
Once I got Apple's dongle I was in disbelief at the wire they use, it's even thinner than the older dongles from back in the day! It's literally designed to break within a few months and force you shell out $10 and buy it over and over.
Before someone says the thin wire on the dongle is to protect the usb c port, people have used usb a, ethernet, and normal usb c wires for decades with no magsafe and no noodle width wire and had no incidents.
Now I have no choice but to use usb c earphones that have a normal wire....If I can even find a rare pair that works with the new MacBook, any recommendations? Let me guess the official apple usb c earphones are the only ones that work.....
This, and the fact that they make it impossible to modify the color profile of the display without locking the brightness, and the fact that they don't warn you that you'll be forced to upgrade to the lastest macOS (the notorious 15.2) if you try to re-enable SIP after disabling it. Is just Apple's typical "our way or no way" destroying things that have been working fine for years.
It's not a grounding/dirty power issue and even if it is, it's still a design flaw as other laptops don't have this problem. Can't believe Apple still hasn't fixed it ... terrible idea moving the audio jack to the same side as the charger. This issue has existed since the M1:
I bought a usb c to 3.5 mm jack dac, so I can use my preferred wired earphones (that don't break down after 2 months like most do) on the right side and avoid this problem only to find out almost all usb c to audio jack dongles don't work with the new macbooks, they don't get recognized. What is the point of having a usb c port, if it's not universal???? No doubt to force you to buy Apple's version.
I tried 2 different non-official dacs that don't have the noodle wire that Apple makes, before giving up and buying Apple's dongle.
Once I got Apple's dongle I was in disbelief at the wire they use, it's even thinner than the older dongles from back in the day! It's literally designed to break within a few months and force you shell out $10 and buy it over and over.
Before someone says the thin wire on the dongle is to protect the usb c port, people have used usb a, ethernet, and normal usb c wires for decades with no magsafe and no noodle width wire and had no incidents.
Now I have no choice but to use usb c earphones that have a normal wire....If I can even find a rare pair that works with the new MacBook, any recommendations? Let me guess the official apple usb c earphones are the only ones that work.....
This, and the fact that they make it impossible to modify the color profile of the display without locking the brightness, and the fact that they don't warn you that you'll be forced to upgrade to the lastest macOS (the notorious 15.2) if you try to re-enable SIP after disabling it. Is just Apple's typical "our way or no way" destroying things that have been working fine for years.
