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How do you even use 5k resolution? No zoom?
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If you have a 5k iMac….
Apple have marketed their monitors/iMacs as 4k/5k, but in reality they are not.
Yes you can run a 24” at 4k or a 27” at 5k, but everything is microscopic.
Natively they all run in highDPI or retina mode, like an iPhone/ipad.
Which means a 4k is 1920x1080 and a 5k is 2560x1440 (half of 4 or 5k).
It will be on a 24” screen….
Post in thread 'More screen real estate with a 4.5K iMac over a standard 24" screen?'
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...er-a-standard-24-screen.2296691/post-30546036
Yes, they are: Apple have just chosen a very confusing way of describing the user interface scaling.
Nope - it's the other way around. Unless you've jumped through hoops to enable "low resolution" modes, what Apple calls "2560x1440" is actually 5210x2880, but with with fonts, icons, vector graphics etc. drawn using double the number of pixels so that they are the same physical size on a 27" 5k screen as they were on an old 27" 2560x1440 screen. Unless you're using ancient, pre-retina software that doesn't understand retina mode, those pixels are used to add detail and 5k mode shows far more detail than you'd get on an actual 2560x1440 screen.
Just take a screen shot, count the pixels and zoom into some text or graphics to see that all of those pixels are being put to good use.
Sounds like you've selected "5120x2880" mode thinking that you need that to get 5k resolution. You don't. Apple, in their infinite wisdom, decided to use names like "2560x1440" to mean different UI scales.
Go into display settings and set the screen mode to "larger text". Ignore the stupid pop-up that says "2560x1440" - you're still getting the benefits of 5k/220ppi resolution.
Its only the system/menu/dialogue fonts and buttons that get affected by this - within any application you can use the zoom or font size settings to cram in as much or as little text as you like.
Just like this:
That's with a pair of 5K displays, Studio Display from Apple and the LG Ultrafine 5K both 5120x2880 on Mac Pro 7,1.