What's your favorite Mac Monitor?

[ScreenSavers]

Just posted in the Mac Pro section, although the question goes for Mac Mini as well... Thanks!

What's your favorite Mac monitor?

I finally got monitor the setup I've been wanting for years- dual 30" Cinema displays with my 5,1... And they are so hot I can barely use them in my office at 1/4 brightness. It got to 88º F this afternoon, and I can feel heat coming at me from the monitors... I'd like to keep the same general...

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[richmond62]

The three flat screens I fished out of a rubbish bin!

A friend of mine at the local bank phoned me to say they were installing new monitors; so, round I went
and, Bingo! 3 perfectly respectable monitors saved from a landfill . . .

Mac monitors are expensive to the extent that the benefits do not justify the difference in price.

 

[harriska2]

40” Samsung 4k. Loooove it. Hubby has a Dell 27” he really likes.

 

[Osamede]

LG Ultrafne 27" 5K works pretty well - 5 months so far...

 

[ScreenSavers]

LG Ultrafne 27" 5K works pretty well - 5 months so far...

That uses a thunderbolt connection, right?

 

[Osamede]

That uses a thunderbolt connection, right?

USB-C "thunderbolt 3"

 

[ScreenSavers]

USB-C "thunderbolt 3"

No way to use that with a classic Mac Pro, unfortunately.

 

[gusping]

Using two 4K monitors atm - LG 32UL750 and LG 27UK650. The former is a VA panel with questionable colour shift (but I do no photo/video editing) so it's fine, and the latter is a great all round 4K IPS panel. I only just got the 32" monitor, and having 'looks like 2560 x 1440' scaling on a 32" 4k monitor is heaven. Perfect sizing. Always struggled with it on the 27". One is connected with a USB-C cable, the other with a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.

 

[richmond62]

No way to use that with a classic Mac Pro, unfortunately.

Most converters seem to go the other way round: USB-C port on computer to VGA/DVI/HDMI for a monitor.

HOWEVER: you could try a bit of "transgender" stuff:

Maxhood USB C Type C Female to Female Adapter, Straight Tiny USB-C USB 3.1 Type-C Female to Female Coupler Adapter Connector for Laptop & Tablet & Mobile Phone (USB C F/F)

Maxhood USB C Type C Female to Female Adapter, Straight Tiny USB-C USB 3.1 Type-C Female to Female Coupler Adapter Connector for Laptop & Tablet & Mobile Phone (USB C F/F)

www.amazon.co.uk

My warped sense of humour finds it rather funny that a gender-changer is called "Straight", but that's just me.

AND a USB-C to VGA/DVI/HDMI for a monitor.

 

[Steve Jobs.]

LG 27" 5k display.

 

[gusping]

LG 27" 5k display.

Do you use the 'looks like 2560 x 1440' scaling option?

 

[ScreenSavers]

Do you use the 'looks like 2560 x 1440' scaling option?

I still don’t think I can connect that to a cMP.

 

[paddylaz]

Don't even have my Mac mini yet, but my favourite monitor is my Dell S2419h. Outside of apple, finding a monitor with a nice glossy display is getting harder and harder. Matte is dominating.

If you're watching in a dark/light controlled environment, nothing beats the 'pop' of glossy.

 

[Steve Jobs.]

Do you use the 'looks like 2560 x 1440' scaling option?

Yep that's the setting I used!

Though recently with the COVID-19 stuff, my work let me expense an LG 5k display to use at home so I've been using that more (also at the 1440p scale).

 

[Stephen.R]

Though recently with the COVID-19 stuff, my work let me expense an LG 5k display to use at home so I've been using that more (also at the 1440p setting).

I find it hard to believe Apple hadn’t already given you a display for use at home... I mean it’s the least they could do for a returned from the dead former CEO and Chairman.