In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I sent this to a Mac owning friend who got herself another Mac , a M1 Imac and she has not seen the problem you have said about.

I'll get my friends with this issue to go see the local Apple store experts

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

The more i play with Windows 11, the more my mind is going to a Mac, I can tell you, people thought Vista was bad, I think windows 11 is worse in some ways.

In MacOS 12.x Monteray you can no longer drag files from the Finder (file manager) in list view. That sort of insanity keeps me away from Mac.

No sign of that issue here. Several children and me running Monterey on M1 based MacBooks.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

I sent this to a Mac owning friend who got herself another Mac , a M1 Imac and she has not seen the problem you have said about.

I'll get my friends with this issue to go see the local Apple store experts

Not knowing much about Apple machines, I wonder if the OS did not install correctly and maybe a clean install would do the job.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Chillblast, PC Specialist, and a range of other UK companies that build desktops / towers.

Go to Dell / Lenovo / Asus for laptops as you want world scale experience.

Sadly you can't build your own lappy, yes i know projects exists but they are small town things

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Not knowing much about Apple machines, I wonder if the OS did not install correctly and maybe a clean install would do the job.

That is a good idea, a work colleague suggested looking to see if there is still such a thing as the "combo updater" and reapply the last patch level. Will have a look this weekend to see if relevant for M1 laptops.

In reply to a post by Taras:

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Chillblast, PC Specialist, and a range of other UK companies that build desktops / towers.

Go to Dell / Lenovo / Asus for laptops as you want world scale experience.

Sadly you can't build your own lappy, yes i know projects exists but they are small town things

I looked at laptops last year, but to be honest I was not impressed with any of them.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Not knowing much about Apple machines, I wonder if the OS did not install correctly and maybe a clean install would do the job.

That is a good idea, a work colleague suggested looking to see if there is still such a thing as the "combo updater" and reapply the last patch level. Will have a look this weekend to see if relevant for M1 laptops.

Ok, what ever that is

In reply to a post by billford:

Googling explicitly for "monterey m1 drag and drop" suggests you're not alone, but it doesn't seem to be widespread. Some suggestions (mostly relating to touchpad and haptic settings) in the results of the above might be worth a try.

Once upon a time you'd go through the minor rigmarole of an SMC reset if there were intermittent issues that required saved system parameters too be reset.

As the SMC is no more with M1 based Macs (its built into the SoC)...may even be something as simple as disconnecting any peripherals, shutting down, then waiting a few seconds before powering up again. This effectively clears all saved system parameters that used to require the old 4-finger reboot on MacBooks...

I agree, unless you have a REAL need for a portable computer always get a desktop.