Lastly, Satechi is running a 15-percent off deal on the new Stand & Hub for Mac mini with SSD Enclosure, which drops the price to a more manageable $85. Like that previous model, the stand-and-hub combo sits flush underneath your M1 Mac mini, connects via a single USB-C connection, and adds a bunch of much-need ports, including a USB-C data port (5Gbps), three USB-A ports (5Gbps), both micro SD and SD card readers, and a headphone jack. Other than that, the new stand-and-hub is exactly the same as the previous stand-and-hub combo that Satechi announced in 2019 - which you can buy on Amazon for $80, which is $20 cheaper than the new model. The other reason that Satechi claims that its stand-and-hub combo is optimized for the M1 Mac mini is that comes in a silver finish, which is the exact same silver finish as the M1 Mac mini. This means you can more affordably add storage to your Mac mini - because M.2 SATA SSD storage is typically cheaper than buying an external hard drive - and you can hide it so it won't cluttering up your desk space. As its name gives away, the brand-new Stand & Hub for Mac mini with SSD Enclosure ($100) has a hidden enclosure for M.2 SATA SSD storage (which all recent Macs have). When the MacBook Pro is plugged into the OWC Hub instead of the M1 Mac Mini, everything works as expected - the system recognizes and uses both monitors as external displays.Satechi just announced a new stand-and-hub combo that's optimized for the M1 Mac mini, but it also has a neat trick. Plugging USB-C cable going to Monitor 2 back to the OWC Hub after that doesn't change the layout. If I unplug the USB-C cable going to the Monitor 2 from the Hub, macOS reconfigures itself to route DisplayPort over USB-C to Monitor 1 and HDMI to Monitor 2 (this is the desired state).
Switching inputs on Monitor 2 shows the different macOS spaces of the same machine (the M1 Mac Mini). When I plug the M1 Mac Mini to the OWC Hub with a Thunderbolt 4 cable (came with the Hub), macOS recognizes two external displays but route both HDMI and DisplayPort over USB-C signals to the same display - Monitor 2. Monitor 2 is connected to M1 Mac mini with an HDMI cable (cable came with the monitor).Monitor 2 is connected to the OWC Hub with a USB-C cable (cable came with the monitor).Monitor 1 is connected to the OWC Hub with a Thunderbolt 3 cable.Two Dell U2720Q/U2720QM monitors (supports video signal from USB-C, HDMI & DisplayPort).I'm trying to find a solution to switching external monitors between an M1 Mac mini and an Intel MacBook Pro by replugging a single Thunderbolt cable.
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