Who can recommend me a monitor (screen) for Mac?

[MirrorProfiles]

Ordered an LG C4 42 and it’s SO MUCH better for the distance in working at. Colours, viewing angles, higher refresh rate all make it way better to use and it feels snappy and crisp. Main downsides are having to manually turn it on and off, lack of USB hub, and it’s not insanely bright (but still plenty bright). You can definitely tell Apple use LG panels in their displays, it feels familiar.

I set up my 32” dell screen off to the side as a kind of “MIDI workstation”. I don’t have room on my desk for a keyboard or other controllers, and day to day i’m not really using them. It was a bit of a pain hopping back and forth to tap midi notes and then change presets so this works nicely. Sitting closer to the 32” screen makes it a lot better than before, although the screen is noticeably worse than the LG TV IMO.

Next grumble is you can only use RME ARC remote at a time. I have a spare and it would be great to have it mirror my main one for when I’m sat at the side. Not a huge deal but it’s a dumb limitation.

 

[Mikael Dez]

I've decided that an external monitor is too much of a hassle for me and have ordered another iMac instead. Unfortunately, it's not available with the M4 Pro, but looking at the Geekbench benchmarks, the gain in multicore performance for me isn't so drastic as to justify the extra cost of the CPU upgrade as well as the inconvenience of an external monitor.

My college runs their whole film and graphic design program on iMacs since forever, but when I was in the Apple role I replaced the whole fleet with first gen M1s. The film professor was very skeptical about not having the word Pro in the name and pretty conservative specs (16gb ram, 8 core). He admitted after a year that the labs were running incredibly smooth and that the M1 iMacs seriously impressed him. I think that unless you’re doing some seriously intense shit, you don’t need an M4 Pro/whatever Apple places at the top of the food chain at that year