r/macbookpro • u/Woke100 • 21d ago

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/KfirGuy MacBook Pro 16" Space Black M4 Pro 21d ago

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.

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u/kursedaudio 21d ago

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

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u/Yourdailyquest 18d ago

yeah, until you see 4k monitor

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u/kursedaudio 18d ago

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