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4-display setup exams restrict of an excessive amount of display screen house


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At present’s featured Mac Studio setup might win the exterior show arms race — for greater displays and for extra of them. A 4-display setup displayed on social media will not be tremendous uncommon, however one sporting such giant screens is. This one pushes the restrict of an excessive amount of display screen house with two stacked 57-inch curved ultra-wide Samsung shows bookended by two 32-inch Samsungs in portrait (vertical) orientation. Yikes, that’s loads of display screen.

How a lot is an excessive amount of display screen house? Mac Studio drives 4-display setup that exams the restrict.

Enormous, curved


57-inch Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Sequence Curved Gaming Monitor

This large show is equal to twin 27-inch 4K UHD displays. The 1000R curved gaming monitor includes a 240Hz refresh charge, 1ms response time, DisplayPort 2.1 assist, Quantum Mini-LED, DisplayHDR 1000 and AMD FreeSync Premium Professional (LS57CG952NNXZA, 2023).

Execs:

  • Huge display screen actual property
  • Nice for gaming
  • Quick refresh charge and response time

Redditor Infinite-Sea-1913 (“IS”) showcased the wall of shows in a put up entitled, “M2 Extremely MacStudio & 4 UHD panels.” They appeared delighted their highly effective M2 Mac Studio Extremely may deal with the quartet of Samsung screens.

“I wasn’t certain the Mac Studio would assist them however I’m so pleased it did, two stacked Samsung Odyssey G9 57 inch and two Samsung M7D 32 inch, actually proud of the setup!”

Commenters weren’t so certain, nevertheless.

“My neck hurts taking a look at this,” one joked.

“OP has finished it: They’ve lastly hit the restrict of an excessive amount of display screen house,” added one other. To which IS replied, “Yeah with out the Aeron chair tilting I believe I might have neck ache, however to date loving it!”

However why do you adore it?

Then got here the query: “Why? (Severe query).” Why do you’re keen on this large mission-control-worthy wall of screens, somebody appeared to ask.

“I work with a ton of VSCode cases and Xcode together with numerous iOS and tvOS simulations, plus some terminals and Claude code,” IS replied. “This enables me to have the whole lot with out having to resort to varied digital desktops. Additionally I work with a second Mac Studio whereas the primary one is busy (the venture I work with takes 30 to 40 minutes to construct from scratch so I can simply change between Macs because of the built-in KVMs of the G9s [monitors].”

One other particular person joked they might by no means deal with all of the screens, needing only one large one to give attention to.

“I’ve ADHD and take prescription meds, so avoiding switching digital desktops has been incredible for my focusing, specifically since my mind doesn’t go different rabbit holes as a result of I chosen the fallacious digital desktop and now I’m chasing an entire totally different rabbit,” IS joked.

Getting cursor from display screen to display screen

Is there a fast option to get your mouse from one display screen to a different?” requested a commenter.

“Sure, Magic Trackpad mouse velocity set to 100% … mouse goes brrrrrr. Jokes apart, yeah, that’s not actually an issue with the trackpad — single swipe can take you anyplace. I switched from the MagicMouse and I’ve not regarded again. I did have so as to add a wrist relaxation, or else I might have gentle ache on the finish of the day, however yeah setting monitoring velocity to 100% did it for me.”

Geared up for work on the highway, too

Another person inquired about IS’s “working-on-the-go state of affairs,” as in, have they got a MacBook? IS replied saying they’ve a 12.9-inch iPad Professional and a 16-inch MacBook Professional.

“So when touring I can do 2- or 3-monitor setup relying on the desk dimension I’m on, however for a lot of the yr I’m a distant worker working from dwelling,” IS repled. “I may additionally plug in my MBP to this setup however the Mac Studios have been lots to date. My MBP is linked to an Ark monitor behind me however I solely use it not often possibly for macOS beta testing in the course of the summer time months or touring.”

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