{"id":18034,"date":"2017-05-19T14:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18034"},"modified":"2017-05-19T14:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T18:11:19","slug":"retina-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/19\/retina-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Retina Monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyliss.com\/2017\/5\/17\/retina-monitors\">Casey Liss<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.caseyliss.com\/2017\/5\/17\/retina-monitors\">\n<p>As I write this, there are three general options, that will work with most modern Macs[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there are two options for those with a fancypants MacBook with USB-C[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you look at Marc&rsquo;s chart, you can see what the issue is. Displays over 24\" that are only 4K land in &ldquo;the bad zone&rdquo;&mdash;more resolution than non-Retina, yet not enough to be full Retina.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as I can tell, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT207448\">only the 2016 MacBook Pro<\/a> can drive a 5K display. For 4K at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/4k-5k-displays-buyers-guide-mac\/\">decent refresh rate<\/a>, you need a mid-2014 or later MacBook Pro.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casey Liss: As I write this, there are three general options, that will work with most modern Macs[&#8230;] [&#8230;] Additionally, there are two options for those with a fancypants MacBook with USB-C[&#8230;] [&#8230;] If you look at Marc&rsquo;s chart, you can see what the issue is. Displays over 24\" that are only 4K land in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[838,839,30,100,1381,83,201,1154],"class_list":["post-18034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-display","tag-displayport","tag-mac","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-10-12","tag-retina","tag-thunderbolt","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18035,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions\/18035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}