The gorgeous Retina displays on the latest iterations of this famed Apple product are truly a sight to behold, and regardless of whether you use it to professionally edit photos or stream Netflix, you have to acknowledge that these screens are simply awesome.īut the MacBook Pro tops out at 15 inches-meaning that some people are simply out of luck if they need a larger screen for work or play. The on screen menu is pretty crappy too, but you don't really need to use it for any reason.Anyone who’s used or tested the latest MacBook Pro will tell you that if it gets on thing right, it’s the screen. Too bad, especially because it's clearly marketed to Mac heads. While the display can show two screens, like HDMI input and thunderbolt (!) next to each other, the mac drivers for virtual displays are crap and the feature completely unusable. If you do any work with a horizontal timeline, like video editing, this thing is amazing. You might get a little dizzy from this giant display at first, but it's nice to have all that breathing space. It feels a little cheap but once it's set up you forget about that. It's 34' wide, which is like having 2 smaller screens next to each other (next to your Macbook). We also recently added this LG 34um95 (beast) to the studio. Get a mini display port to display port adapter and you're good. Watch out for the cables though, there are reports that HDMI causes issues w/ Mac. Not very convenient to quickly switch… oh well. Even though Dell offers no drivers for Mac, rotation is supported in system prefs. It's pretty cool that you can turn the monitor to portrait mode. Wire cutter calls the Dell (other good recommendations) Good screen. We have 4 (one 27' that's over ten years old and still in circulation) at the office. A 5k is probably just around the corner, and I'd expect the 72dpi screens to be marked down. But it seems like they are overpriced at the moment. The world has to catch up and defaulting to seeing pixels makes my work less sloppy.Ĭinema displays are great. I prefer my macbook screen retina and the big screen 72dpi. I would say that buying good screen that lasts ten + years can run the same price as throwing out a cheap one every couple of years.)

(Edit: This is slightly off-topic for this thread I skipped over the $300 price tag requirement.

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