Samsung S60A Series 27" WQHD Monitor

This is a great monitor and works very well with my M1 MacBook Pro. The stand it is on is very heavy and sturdy and allows a great range angles in all directions. The problem I have with this monitor is its use as a USB-C Dock, in that respect it is pretty terrible, at least with a M1 MacBook Pro. If the MacBook is on and awake when you plug it into the monitor via USB-C the monitor will wake up and everything works great, including the USB-C Dock with all its ports. Very nice. But, if you plug in your M1 MacBook Pro via USB-C while the laptop is either off, or asleep, the monitor wakes up for about a min, and then goes back to sleep. If the MacBook is connected and working (awake) but then you walk away and it is configured to go to sleep, the monitor when it sees the laptop go to sleep also goes to sleep. The problem is that when the monitor goes to sleep it puts the USB-C port to sleep as well, and it stops charging the laptop. The only way to keep charging the laptop is to not ever let the laptop go to sleep or shut down. As soon as the laptop either shuts down or goes to sleep, the monitor turns off the USB-C port and stops charging the laptop. So if you are off using the laptop on battery, get back home, and plug it into the USB-C port, it won't charge overnight unless you turn the laptop on manually and set it to never sleep. I opened a ticket with Samsung because I consider this to be "broken", but they insist that it is designed to work that way and hence nothing is wrong. As a monitor, they are correct. As a USB-C hub, that is fundamentally broken. Hence as a monitor this thing should get all 5 stars, but as a USB-C hub, it should get 1 as it is basically worthless as a USB-C hub. I suspect that Samsung could fix this problem with a software patch to the monitor, but of course they won't fix it because they insist it is not broken, making my customer experience with Samsung pretty bad too. All in all, if you do not care about the USB-C hub this is a great monitor, but if you care about the USB-C hub aspect, look elsewhere. Samsung, if you see this post, please consider fixing this bug in the software of your monitor. If you do, I will gladly update this review.