Nobody can explain it better than the guy behind the code. It lets you trick macOS by mirroring the contents of a fake 5K display of the right aspect ratio onto your actual 1440p screen. Macworld’s Jared Newman highlights BetterDummy, a clever utility that addresses this limitation in a roundabout way. Macs don’t provide HiDPI (or Retina) scaling for sharp text on monitors with less than 4K resolution, including those with a 1440p resolution (2560 by 1440 pixels), and existing workarounds for Intel-based Macs don’t work with M1-based Macs. Even the iPad can connect to external displays, though its utility remains a bit limited. It remains quite surprising that there isn’t an option for those who can’t afford and don’t need the $6000 reference-monitor quality of the Pro Display XDR to pair with a MacBook or Mac Pro, even two and a half years after Apple released its foray back into the external monitor market. Here’s what I wrote (an attempt to explain why 4K 27” displays aren’t great). I wonder if there might have been a better display market had Windows not pretended 4K was 5K. By default, macOS uses the display’s native resolution while Windows scales to pseudo 5K. When I wrote about this, I noticed that macOS and Windows treat my 27” 4K display differently. Ideally we’d have that same variety with 5K displays. Before Retina was a thing, Casey and I could choose from a variety QHD displays. While I’d also love to see Apple release a not ridiculously expensive but still very expensive monitor, I don’t think that addresses the problem. For my money, the completely embarrasing monitor situation Over the last year or two, Apple has been doing a phenomenal job of filling the holes The LG still seems to have problems, and the Apple Pro Display XDR costs $6,000. It’s the responsiveness under load that just kicks the shit out of anything else I’ve used in the past 30 years.Options for retina-quality monitors to attach to your Mac. If you’re still waiting for 20 cores so be it, but even the current Pro/Max are just nuts and it isn’t just benchmark stats. I think part of it is the macOS scheduler which does QoS to split work between P and E cores, combined with the speed at which M1 can create/destroy Swift objects (some order of magnitude faster than intel at that apparently). I’ve yet to find anything that makes app switching, UI response, etc. Ran cinebench r23 benchmark last night and whilst running it general multitasking responsiveness was… imperceptibly different. Maybe it doesn’t render as fast as a high end desktop, but switching apps, multitasking, and actual responsiveness under load is insane. Never mind 20 cores, this 10 core is the most responsive machine I’ve ever used. If you like macOS on intel you’re in for a shock. … and you can use display scaling on any high-dpi panel for weird and wonderful sizes.Īll I can say is go play with a new MacBook Pro. I mean my round-edged MacBook Pro 14 display native res is… That said macOS does work with some wierd-ass display sizes due to the way retina scaling works and the fact that a lot of Apple displays are weird anyway. The gestures are one of those Mac-isms that might change the way you work I use my MacBook by itself a lot more than I can stand to do with PC laptops specifically due to the swipe left/right and I carry it over to the desktop when I have multiple screens attached You can have essentially side by side desktops at a swipe without needing to turn your head, and without giving up vertical space If you’re not using a trackpad with macOS and making use of three finger swipe left/right for multiple desktops (and 3 finger swipe up/down for expose/app expose)… you’re missing out. Having had (and still have -but replaced for Mac use with a 4k 27") a 21:9… for macOS I’d honestly go a nice high-dpi 16:9 or 16:10 - and get a trackpad.
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