Just recently got a mac mini for free from my job. m4 pro chip, 24gb ram, 512gb ssd. Booted it up, set everything up, aaaaand what the fuck:>don't have a 1500 dollar display directly from apple? don't have the 5k resolution equivalent from dell? wanna get a nice cheap 1440p or even 4k res monitor? no, sorry, not good enough, all your shit is blurry as fuck because we don't support those resolutions. >want to fix that problem? sure buddy download this software betterdisplay off github. good shit right? we fixed apples mess for you.. that'll be 20 dollars plus tip to use the whole app. also our "Fix" just makes everything scale slightly less blurry, but not actually truly outputting at the proper resolution. plus tip. also when you do this you can't have HDR enabled. You get either slightly less retarded looking text or shit scaling with hdr. your choice faggot>nice logitech/non mac mouse you got there. we're gonna purposefully fuck the scrolling up so when you scroll once it barely scrolls at all, and when you scroll a bunch all at once it torpedoes you to the bottom of the page. if you had a magic mouse from apple, there's a setting for that specifically, but if you plug anything else in you don't get to see or configure that.>don't worry there's third party apps for that too! download them.. but they all have 7 day trials and disable themselves unless you pay 20 dollars plus tip.>wanna upgrade that storage? you don't have the right. should've gotten what you wanted out of the gate, stupid. you literally can't even bring it into an apple store and pay an exorbitant fee to have a cheap ssd thrown in. we just literally don't even do it. go buy an external drive you shit head. fucking moron idiot.who's fucking allowing this stupid shit? do apple fanboys really fucking shell out this much cash just to make their shit usable? what the actual fuck is this shit?
>>107680183Did you need to setup an online account like you do with windows 11 anon?
>>107680206anon i typed up this entire post on my windows 11 PC on a local account.
I have a Mac Mini and a 4k monitor. It looks fine. Am I blind?
>>107680183literally works on my machine anon1080 1440 4k etc all do fine, I’ve ran mine on a few different monitors >>107680206nope you can sign in but you don’t have to do some command line bullshit to say no
>>107680219M$ local account setup:>start the OOBE>make sure you don’t connect to a network>press shift+F10>type a powershell command you had to look up on a different system >reboot>try to run through the setup, if it doesn’t work there’s another powershell command you’ll have to try >once you’ve succeeded the system will harass you daily and during every major update about creating a Microsoft account>”let’s finish setting up your device”Mac equivalent:>click “don’t sign in” during setup>?????>profit
Had this problem with some trash 1440p display. Upgraded to a 4k hdr 144hz and it looks perfect. Base mini m4 and won’t even turn on the fan when I’m running Final Cut, after effects and a bunch of Ai browser tabs at the same time. My windows trash would coil wine and overheat over everything while blasting fans. >skill issue nigga
>>107680261or you could use rufus to make your install usb and just enable it by default
>>107680283Rufus is a windows only util anon. At some point you had to do it the hard way if you use jeetdows.
>>107680261i literally didn't do any of that. i just ran the disk and didn't connect to the internet. you really believe everything faggots on here say, don't you?
>>107680183I use a Mac miniI bought the 5K Studio Display because I’m hooked on what I think is a proper resolution in a proper size, but I also have a 4K 27” right next to it rotated 90° and it seems fineAlso I have a Razer 8KHz plugged in and its wheel seems fine tooBut most of my scrolling I do with an Apple touchpad between my keyboard halves>20 dollars plus tip cultureThat’s how we’ve rolled since the 80s, and it keeps niche software alive and getting updates. Be happy that it’s in 2025 dollars instead of 1987 dollars.>can’t upgrade the storageI don’t like it either, but if you had gotten this yourself you would have been able to buy as much storage as you want (or are willing and able to pay for). You’re in a weird position because yours was just given to you.>>107680206I did a clean install of macOS 26.2 on my laptop and somehow managed to accidentally bypass signing in with iCloud during the system setup>>1076802354K 47” with 1080p points (so, @2x or 200%) is fine (that’s what I use in Windows and Linux and on my laptop when it’s plugged into the horizontal external monitor), but everything’s a bit big
just dont use it theneverything you said was fake and gay besides the storage issue but thats a personal problem. make more money loserI spend more on property taxes a year than I do on tech slop
>>107680183Im using a 32" 4K monitor alongside mu 24 1080p and it looks great. It's not within the 'recommended' retina PPI range but still not blurry.So yeah fren I genuinely don't know tf u're talkinh about. HDR doesn't seem to work through HDMI but I think that's just my cable? So I'm using usbc to dp
>>107680183Sell it
>>107680183>buy kid phone because she needs to catch the bus>wants an iphone because girls are retarded>can't even set the fucking thing up without owning an iphone myselfGuess what kid, you're getting an Android
>>107680828You mean “can’t set up a child-account Apple Account without an adult Apple Account”?Good question, not sure if you can just have an Apple Account without having any Apple devicesChild accounts are likely buggy enough without having the extra wrinkle of a 0-device parent account
>>107680776>I don’t like it eitherBut you can upgrade the storage on a Mac Mini.
>>107680854I mean, yeah, technically, if you can source a gray-market SSD and I forget if soldering is requiredbut that’s beyond what I’m willing and able to do
>>107680183>even a work freebie ends up costing you a shitload of money.And people have the gall to ask why I hate Apple.
>>107680903this is /g/ so you might have heard “free as in speech” and “free as in beer”, but have you heard “free as in puppy”?
>>107680304At least it's free instead of having to pay some pajeet for a third party utility so that you can use your monitor and your mouse
>>107680219Or install win 11 education. I feel like I discovered some hidden windows version with how little it's spoken about as viable.
>>107680183I doubt you really have the mac mini. Seems like you heard about some issues but you don't know what exactly is wrong.So what's so terrible about 1440p display in macos?
I have a 1440p ROG Swift and it works perfectly with my M4 Max.
>>107681058It’s not retina Otherwise it should be fine
>>107681100Yeah it's 1x. Just like on windows and linux lol.
