This is, presumably, why Apple’s Retina displays are 5K rather than 4K. Halving the native display resolution is easy peasy for GPU hardware - a small lift. A 5K Apple display has a native resolution of 5120×2880 and the default view mode is a “looks like” 2560×1440 desktop - razor sharp. (I do not game on my desktop Mac nor do I watch feature films, so a more traditional 16:9 aspect ration has little value to me here.) I’ve had this system up and running for two months now and I can say that, of all the displays I’ve ever used, this one is my favorite.ĭoing research to spec out the screen for this iMac replacement, I encountered a large number of people lamenting the use of 4K displays with Macs, noting that the Apple 5K displays, with a 218 pixel/inch density, allow for a computationally easy halving of the native display resolution to achieve an ideal desktop rendering. A perfect screen for my use cases as a general UNIX system and web development workstation. It is “ tall” in its normal orientation, but I’ve chosen to use it rotated which makes it look rather square. It’s an unusual display it is a 16:18 aspect panel with a native resolution of 2560×2880.
And I have, in the form of an LG DualUp 28-inch display.
That iMac’s beautiful 27-inch, 5K retina display was hard to part with, and so I wanted to give the new desktop system a very nice screen. Some months earlier I upgraded my aging laptop to a 2022 M2 MacBook Air. I recently replaced my aging 2017 5K Retina iMac with a Mac Studio, powered by an M1 Max processor and 32GB of RAM. (Well, there is an Amiga and a Lisa in that second photo down the page, there, so…) And, while this is primarily a vintage computing blog, not every post is of that nature. I found myself posting this information so frequently on forum threads and in video comments that I wanted to put it all together in one place so that I can share my experience and what I’ve learned with a single link.
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