It felt like I more actively had to move my neck around to look at the whole screen. It honestly took about a week to get used to the size. I had never been in front of such a large computer monitor. The size: After the typical lovely unboxing with Apple's insane attention to detail, I found myself looking at a huge XDR display on my desk. I'm back to running at the native 3008x1692 resolution. Unfortunately, it does not seem possible to use a custom scaled resolution like that with my new M1 Max-based MacBook Pro. That was all fine and great while I had an Intel-based Mac. Of course, the Retina 2x mode is only 3008x1692 on the XDR, so when I find myself wanting more screen real estate and am okay with sacrificing some sharpness, I use SwitchResX to move to a 3840x2160 scaled resolution. With the XDR, there's more resolution and a physically larger display, so this is less of a problem. Running at the native 3840x2160 was possible but everything was impossibly tiny. The problem with running 4K on my prior 27-inch display was that I always had to be running a scaled resolution to be able to see things large enough to interact with. I could rattle off the long list of specs but I'd prefer to just keep it simple and only mention the ones really important to me: 6K resolution, nano-texture matte glass, 1000/1600 nits with full P3 wide color gamut, as well as the stunning design and simplicity of it with just one cable to charge and run from my 16" MacBook Pro. Then the 32-inch Retina 6K Apple Pro Display XDR was announced. The LG 5K remained the only other good contender if your machine could run 5K over Thunderbolt 3 and you didn't mind the ridiculously glossy, reflective display and dull aesthetics. There weren't any new traditional 5K panels, just lots of ultrawide 5K displays being introduced. I had always kept my eye on the new computer displays ever since then but the options for non-gaming displays continued to feel stagnant. At the time it was a great 27" monitor with both Mac and PC support, 4K resolution and impressive color accuracy. But just to put it in comparison in front of the screen is my iPad and the table is 1.80m in width.For several years I relied upon my Dell UP2718Q 4K display originally described in my 2018 article, Building a Lightroom PC.
No I just need my Moom settings adjust to the new screen estate and I am happy again aligning windows.Īnd in relation to the Smartboard it still looks small. As I will travel next week there is not enough time to clean up all the cabling, that has to wait until I get back, but so far I am actually quite happy with the new setup. I can easily use both screens with good speed, which was nearly impossible without an eGPU. So now I can use the eGPU to power the Philips 499P9H as well as the 65" SmartBoard I have in my office while reducing the load on my 2016 model 13 Inch Macbook Pro which makes it actually quite fast again due to the CPU constraint of the small GPU. Once installed I was able to just switch to the screen resolution and off we go. So I stoped that approach and went to Philips, while they couldn't help me directly (telling me however problem is known), they at least pointed me to a tool called SwitchResX which can solve the issue. As they blamed it first on the eGPU and then on the Display, then on cables etc. I got totally wrong here, it took me several hours on the Apple support which in this case proofed to be complete waste of time. So finally screen and eGPU pro made it to my desk, and as a many year apple user I was expecting a more or less: Connect and Ready to go experience.
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