Apple’s new M1 Pro and Max MacE book Pros are beasts by way of efficiency based mostly on the benchmarks and opinions we’ve seen, but when there’s something the laptops can’t appear to deal with it could be HDR YouTube movies. This is in line with person stories who’re claiming that their laptops are crashing whereas watching HDR YouTube movies.

According to MacRumors reader Cababah, they declare that watching a HDR video after which scrolling by way of the feedback will return a kernel error message in macOS Monterey. It additionally appears to occur when watching a YouTube video in full display after which exiting full display.

Another reader, spiritedaway, provides, “Been happening to me as well, YouTube 4K HDR video on Safari. After closing full screen playback the Mac completely shuts down and reboots. M1 Pro 16″. I can pretty much get it to do it every single time.” It doesn’t appear to be restricted to any browser both as customers who’re utilizing Safari and Chrome are equally affected.

Also, based mostly on the stories, it appears to largely affected the fashions with 16GB of RAM, however there are a smattering of stories of these with 32GB and 64GB fashions who’re affected as properly. Now, this isn’t to say that the laptops can’t deal with HDR movies. It appears extra like a bug if something, with some customers speculating that it could possibly be a difficulty with the AV1 decoding.

It is unclear how widespread this problem is, however there’s a likelihood Apple is conscious as a result of within the macOS Monterey 12.1 beta, customers are reporting that this drawback appears to have been fastened.

Filed in Apple >Computers. Read extra about Chrome, Laptops, M1, Macbook Pro, Safari and YouTube. Source: macrumors