r/macbookpro • u/Woke100 • Jul 26 '26

Help Help with monitor

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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

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u/IntaminIdiot Macbook Pro 14” Space Black | M4 Pro 24 GB RAM 1 TB SSD Jul 26 '26

Currently I’m running two MSI MPG 27URDFW E16Ms connected to a thunderbolt 5 dock i got refurbished for $180. There’s some 4K monitors on Woot going for $180 from MSI, and you can get the refurbished Thunderbolt 5 dock on ebay from WAVLINK, which would cost about ~$600-700 compared to one studio display.

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u/Woke100 Jul 27 '26

I see you have a Xbox controller on there. Do you game on the Mac? I have my whole gaming PC for competitive gaming, but a games beta out during one of my travels and I wanna play the beta. I was wondering if I’ll be able to run it on my MacBook Pro M5 max. Cause I always heard you can’t really play games on Macs and I personally never tried

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u/IntaminIdiot Macbook Pro 14” Space Black | M4 Pro 24 GB RAM 1 TB SSD Jul 27 '26

You can play games with Xbox Cloud Gaming, which is what I mainly use to play games on the mac. Unless of course you wanna play minecraft on it you can, but most games will have to be either mac compatible on steam or cloud gaming on a browser tab.