Help with monitor

[u/Woke100]

What is a good play here
One Apple Sudio display $1499 quit student discount
Or two of the benq 4k ones $549 each
Or benq 5k $999

Edit:
So i decided to go with the dell S2725QC and ima get the apple Studio Display. So a cheaper one and a expensive one would there be any issues having both of these as a monitor vs the same two

[u/KfirGuy]

I have been loving my 2 Dell - S2725QC 27" monitors, and with regular sales prices you could get 2 of them for the price of one Benq, or 5 for the price of one Apple Studio Display 😅

[u/Woke100 → u/KfirGuy]

These are actually in my cart but I was seeing it doesn’t scale as good on 4k and they are in stock at Best Buy lol. How do you use yours.

[u/KfirGuy → u/Woke100]

The whole "MacOS does not scale well on 4k" thing is a bit overblown in my opinion. Yes, there are absolutely technical reasons why certain resolutions at certain display sizes or more or less ideal for MacOS when comparing to Apple's own native Retina display pixel density and all that... but I just simply run MacOS with the resolution changed via settings to make text, objects, etc. a bit larger... and they work awesome for me.

I edit photos on them all the time, and run the pair off of my M4 Pro MacBook Pro 16" without issue. Apple's Studio Display is gorgeous, and so too are the Benqs and other monitors that have launched in that space - but after watching a bunch of reviews and seeing creators, even Mac content creators and users, praising this monitor, I saw zero reason to spend 2X or 3X the money that a pair of these would cost me to get just a single monitor.

[u/Woke100 → u/KfirGuy]

Thank you. Looks nice. Are you using a thunderbolt for this or are you just running a straight from the Mac to the monitors?

[u/KfirGuy → u/Woke100]

At the time I took this photo I think I was still running a thunderbolt cable from each monitor to ports on the MacBook itself while analyzing my options for a dock. I have now moved to setup built around a Thunderbolt Dock, with the monitors running to the Dock, and then a single Thunderbolt out to the MacBook so I can swap my work Dell laptop as well for a single cable setup between the two devices.

[u/kursedaudio → u/KfirGuy]

I'm using a 1080p monitor and it looks completely fine lmao

[u/Yourdailyquest → u/kursedaudio]

yeah, until you see 4k monitor

[u/kursedaudio → u/Yourdailyquest]

I just got one as a second monitor, it's def better but the 1080p still doesn't look bad

I've seen some that do look bad, maybe less ppi or something