{"id":46306,"date":"2025-01-03T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T02:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=46306"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:35:50","slug":"m4-mac-issues-with-ultrawide-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/03\/m4-mac-issues-with-ultrawide-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"M4 Mac Issues With Ultrawide Monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/12\/30\/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor\/\">Filipe Esp&oacute;sito<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/12\/30\/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor\/\"><p>As noted by many users on the <a href=\"https:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/thread\/255845196?cid=em-com-watches_email_thread-view_the_full_discussion-en-us-11282023&amp;sortBy=rank\">Apple Community forums<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/macmini\/comments\/1hatxb2\/comment\/m1bbo97\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=web3x&amp;utm_name=web3xcss&amp;utm_term=1&amp;utm_content=share_button\">Reddit<\/a> and even corroborated by a <em>9to5Mac<\/em> reader, the M4 Macs seem to break support for some ultrawide monitors. More specifically, those with 5K2K (5120 x 2160) resolution.<\/p><p>According to these reports, M4 Macs don&rsquo;t display the proper resolution options for these monitors, which makes the interface and text look blurry. The same monitors work just fine with older Macs, whether Intel or Apple Silicon. But when connected to an M4 Mac, they no longer work in HiDPI mode &#x2013; which upscales the interface to make it sharper.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Some users have managed to enable HiDPI using third-party tools such as BetterDisplay, but this causes other drawbacks such as the refresh rate dropping from 75Hz to 60Hz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/15\/m4-macs-cant-virtualise-older-macos\/\">M4 Macs Can&rsquo;t Virtualize Older macOS<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/08\/high-power-mode-for-m4-pro-macs\/\">High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/30\/macbook-pro-2024\/\">MacBook Pro 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/29\/mac-mini-2024\/\">Mac mini 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/15\/apples-stale-mac-displays\/\">Apple&rsquo;s Stale Mac Displays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/22\/best-mac-monitors-and-displays-2024\/\">Best Mac Monitors and Displays 2024<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipe Esp&oacute;sito: As noted by many users on the Apple Community forums, Reddit and even corroborated by a 9to5Mac reader, the M4 Macs seem to break support for some ultrawide monitors. More specifically, those with 5K2K (5120 x 2160) resolution.According to these reports, M4 Macs don&rsquo;t display the proper resolution options for these monitors, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-01-04T02:06:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"5ccd3e50-8193-44bc-bb65-a0e985ee6d26","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-04T02:06:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AXM0-UIGTRLy7ZaDphe5tJg","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":[2583,2709,131,838,30,557,100,2598,83],"class_list":["post-46306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-m4","tag-betterdisplay","tag-bug","tag-display","tag-mac","tag-macmini","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-retina"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306","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=46306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46307,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46306\/revisions\/46307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}