The erosion of the Mac experience

Re:The erosion of the Mac experience by wishfish on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:20PM (#32542899)

There's probably a list somewhere on the internet but I've never seen one. When I went monitor shopping six months ago, I used the Macrumors forum heavily. There are long threads on the forum for monitors which didn't work well because of edid or other factors. That's how I ended up with an Asus ProArt 4k instead of the Dell I initially wanted. Everyone complained about how MacOS handled the Dell but no one had a bad word for the Asus.

Though it was a little frustrating to me that I had to monitor shop in the first place. I bought an MBA to start some iOS projects. I wanted to use my still great 1080 IPS Dell screen that I had used for years with Windows and Linux. But MacOS looked absolutely horrid on it. I know MacOS prefers higher resolution screens, but I was surprised it couldn't manage to handle a ridiculously common resolution.

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Re:The erosion of the Mac experience by bradknowles on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:13PM (#32543421)

All the Dell monitors I've ever tried have worked just fine. Including the lower resolution models. On those, you don't get the Retina crisp display, but it still works.

Of course, I avoid HDMI like the plague. I only use DisplayPort unless I have no other option, and then I don't hold out much hope that the display maker did anything right.

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