These 4K monitors are suitable for all sorts of specialty applications there are some for gaming with high refresh rates, some for designers and photo editors that offer large colour gamuts, and some that are ergonomically designed to be comfortable to work at for long periods. I guess the lesson there is YMMV.Everything we've selected here has one main thing going for it – affordability. I think I have the same computer as emptythought (Mid 2012 retina MBP), and it's usually driving a 2560x1600 display, however mine never gets hot enough to want to spin up the fan unless I'm playing games or doing bulk image processing or something.
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Mine gets offensively hot even just driving a second 1080p display.(although i have the retina model from the next year up).
But if it is, yes, reducing the resolution will reduce the load on the GPU. Depending on what kind of design work you do, it may not be an issue at all. Rendering more pixels is more work of course, that only will really be an issue if you're doing things that involve updating the whole screen a lot, like video work or 3d/games. But how much more depends on how taxed the GPU is. This will use more power, and thus make more heat. But if there's an external display plugged in, it always uses the discrete GPU. The MBP switches between the more power-efficient integrated GPU (integrated into the Intel CPU) and the better preforming discrete GPU (by AMD in your case, or NVidia in more recent models) "as needed". Posted by emptythought at 5:02 PM on March 17, 2015 If you don't have 8+gb of ram now would be the time to buy at least that much(and you'll probably make the cost of it back when you sell the machine) You're also going to have your vram, and likely a bunch of ram populated all the time. It just wont be good for anything but editing 30 or 24fps video(which will have some ugly pulldown/stutter) or static graphics/photo work.
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Mine gets offensively hot even just driving a second 1080p display.(although i have the retina model from the next year up).ģ0hz means lag, yea, but you SHOULD get the real full resolution right now. You might want to put it on a laptop stand, or something. It SHOULD switch to the dedicated GPU right when you plug the cable in, but i know from experience that it doesn't always.īear in mind the machine will get quite hot even with just chrome running or something with the big gpu spun up all the time. BUT, big but here, you want to get this and select dedicated graphics before you plug the cable in. It should do 4k30hz over displayport, yea. posted by jeff-o-matic to Computers & Internet (16 answers total) I am a self employed designer, so I need to make a decision soon. I'd be willing to consider other monitors, but I want a good quality for less than $1000. Use the same monitor later in the year after I buy a new top of the line MBP, and make use of the full HD resolution capability. to order a 4k monitor NOW, that I will use in the meantime at sub-optimum resolution. Some articles are about forcing older machines to support 4k. Stuff I've read online is tech jargon or specific issues I'm not fully grasping. I want to order this online, and want to know for sure if it will work with my laptop. So I'm willing to change resolution, deal with some lag in the meantime. I do not need 4k resolution now, I just need a working external monitor. In the meantime, until I buy the new MBP, I need a monitor that works reasonably well. In the future, I know I will be able to enjoy full super-HD.
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