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Mac Mini M4 Pro Display Resolutions

31 points by croes 2y ago

altairprime 2y ago
Buried in an image halfway down the page is someone’s Apple Support outcome: “Apple are aware of the issue and it will be fixed in an upcoming update.”
- exabrial 2y ago
  How did they get Apple to respond??
  - altairprime 2y ago
    I have gotten some extremely deep engineering responses from 1-800-APL-CARE over the years, so presumably they just called and asked for support and received it. They've had that phone number forever!
andrewmcwatters 2y ago
It's clear that macOS's naïve resolution scaling is inferior to Windows native resolution and app scaling. On anything other than Apple display hardware (non-industry standard native resolutions), macOS looks comically big (1080p on 4k 32") or too small (4k native 32"). It's interesting that for the longest time Apple held a firm position of publishing the most elegant operating system, but their technical strategies that took them into the HDPI era are not aging well at all.
- musicale 2y ago
  In my experience, Windows does actually do better for non-integer scaling, and it still supports subpixel antialiasing (which Apple abandoned, much to the dismay of any Apple user with a 1080p display, or a 4K display larger than 24".) But I've been using ~220 PPI since 2012 and I never (ever) want to go back. I'm hoping 6K or 8K at 32" will become popular and affordable in 2025.
cmelbye 2y ago
I wish it weren't necessary, but BetterDisplay has been helpful with these types of issues in my experience. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
- musicale 2y ago
  At least now there's a "show all resolutions" setting in display preferences.
musicale 2y ago
Interesting - looks like it's not a regular 16x9 "5K" (5120x2880) monitor like the iMac 27/Ultrafine 5K/Apple Studio but is a "5K2K" 5120x2160 widescreen. Strange that the M4 mini doesn't support all of the resolutions that the M1 mini supported out of the box. Same discussion reported on 9to5mac: https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor/ https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor/

31 points by croes 2y ago

Buried in an image halfway down the page is someone’s Apple Support outcome: “Apple are aware of the issue and it will be fixed in an upcoming update.”

exabrial 2y ago
How did they get Apple to respond??
- altairprime 2y ago
  I have gotten some extremely deep engineering responses from 1-800-APL-CARE over the years, so presumably they just called and asked for support and received it. They've had that phone number forever!

andrewmcwatters 2y ago

It's clear that macOS's naïve resolution scaling is inferior to Windows native resolution and app scaling. On anything other than Apple display hardware (non-industry standard native resolutions), macOS looks comically big (1080p on 4k 32") or too small (4k native 32"). It's interesting that for the longest time Apple held a firm position of publishing the most elegant operating system, but their technical strategies that took them into the HDPI era are not aging well at all.

musicale 2y ago
In my experience, Windows does actually do better for non-integer scaling, and it still supports subpixel antialiasing (which Apple abandoned, much to the dismay of any Apple user with a 1080p display, or a 4K display larger than 24".) But I've been using ~220 PPI since 2012 and I never (ever) want to go back. I'm hoping 6K or 8K at 32" will become popular and affordable in 2025.

cmelbye 2y ago

I wish it weren't necessary, but BetterDisplay has been helpful with these types of issues in my experience. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

musicale 2y ago
At least now there's a "show all resolutions" setting in display preferences.

musicale 2y ago

Interesting - looks like it's not a regular 16x9 "5K" (5120x2880) monitor like the iMac 27/Ultrafine 5K/Apple Studio but is a "5K2K" 5120x2160 widescreen. Strange that the M4 mini doesn't support all of the resolutions that the M1 mini supported out of the box. Same discussion reported on 9to5mac: https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor/ https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor/