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today's video is brought to you by Squarespace hey guys john here with TLD hope you guys are doing well I am back with some 4k content now initially when the Mac Pro came out I really wanted not necessarily needed but wanted a 4k display to go alongside it simply because I had fall in love with higher resolution gadgets whether it's a smartphone tablet or laptop the more pixels there are the more I seem to enjoy it now the problem with the Mac Pro at a 4k display is one prices war and obviously still are crazy expensive in - there really wasn't still is an officially support out of the box but the upcoming 10.9 that three version of Mavericks completely changes that now before I jump into the fine details of the video let me backtrack a couple weeks back I'd actually found the Asus PQ 3 2 1 q 4k display on an open box discount for around 2,200 bucks on Newegg which obviously is still expensive but was about 1,300 bucks off the actual selling price when the monitor initially came out with that said even with knowing that really wasn't a whole lot of support for 4k displays because the discount was so big I really couldn't pass it up so I picked one up so I could try it out for myself so I got it in was super excited I got everything set up got it running at 60 Hertz and after about 30 minutes to an hour I had it packed up and ready to go back so by now I'm sure you're asking why why would you return it if you loved higher resolution displays and what I want you to do now is actually make sure you are watching this video full screen so go to take a second click the full screen and make sure you're doing that and this is what it looks like running at the native 3840 by 2160 now don't get me wrong high resolution pictures and obviously 4k video look amazing on the 4k display and being able to have a full 1080p video window inside the actual display maxed out with tons more real estate is awesome but if you're looking at any kind of text or UI elements it is just simply way too small you essentially have to have your face glued up close to the screen way closer than you should be to make out the text and it really just wasn't a good experience so I had everything packed up I had the RMA ready to go but I got busy and kind of lagged on the return and sure and behold a couple weeks later apples seated out the 10.9 dot version of Mavericks which of course includes support for 4k displays so what I mean by that if anybody has used a retina MacBook Pro you know that even though it has a super high resolution display it actually takes that real estate and scales it down into a usable area that's super dense and super pixel filled so hopefully you're still watching in full-screen mode and now in addition to the native 3840 by 2160 there are four additional modes so first up is 3200 by 1800 and the crazy thing is is it actually renders the entire image at 6400 by 3600 and then scales it down to fit into the 4k display now obviously you cannot see that screenshot to the full potential in this video but I will have an uncompressed full resolution screenshot linked down below just in case anyone is interested in checking that out next up is a 2560 by 1440 mode so this actually renders the entire image at 50 120 by 28 80 and how it works as the text and UI elements are actually drawn in at four times the size to each way so essentially you got to visualize it as there are four pixels crammed into one pixel of real estate now the cool thing however is with applications that support this for video and photo that's actually drawn in at one time so you actually get the full resolution so like I talked about you could have a full 1080p window plane maxed out at full resolution and still have a ton more real estate to work with there's also 1080p and 720p scaling modes you can actually hack at 1080p high DPI mode before this came out but I really wasn't a fan of that something about a 1080p scale on a massive 32 inch screen just does not look good at all obviously 720p is going to be even worse now between the 1800 P and 1440p modes for actually doing work I really really enjoyed that 3200 by 1800 real estate there was a lot of room it wasn't as small as full native resolution but you could still get a lot done now as far as the 1440p mode I think most users would end up liking this the best simply because text and UI elements are most enjoyable it's nice and big nice and crisp and you don't have to sit super close to your screen to read anything so hopefully now you have a little better idea of how it works and if you are looking to pick up a 4k display in the future for your mac pro you can rest easy because there is solid support coming very soon now myself I'm a little torn because even with this that still maybe a month or two away before the official so release comes out and even though I really really really enjoy the high DPI scaling modes on this I don't know if the added real-estate is really going to increase my productivity as far as the price to productivity goes now another reason I'm leaning towards returning the ASIS mater is because with this support it also gives us a hint and hope that Apple should release a 4k Thunderbolt Display very soon and one of the reasons I am a huge fan of the Thunderbolt Display is the fact that it acts as a giant hub so in addition to being a beautiful monitor it also gives you extra Thunderbolt ports USB ports and acts like I said as a hub for your Mac Pro as many of you guys may have seen with my setup video I have the universal audio Apollo twins set up by a thunderbolt into these under Bowl display it's a nice clean quick access to it and with the asus monitor it kind of hinders my setup a little bit so that's one of the reasons I am looking forward to an updated Thunderbolt Display with obviously 4k support aside from that if you guys enjoyed the video you found it helpful or you just feel like being awesome make sure to hit that like button it is much 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thank you guys very much for watching if you guys have any questions on the Mac Pro 4k displays or tech in general hit me up with a question down below I do try to reply to as many YouTube comments as possible but it does get a little bit hectic sometime so the absolute best way to get a hold of me is on twitter at TLD today I am on there all the time and you will more than likely get a response also let me know what I should do with the 4k display should I return the Asus monitor and wait for Apple to hopefully come out with one of their own soon or should I keep it and cross my fingers that they roll out the 10.9 update very soon again this is Jonathan with TLD thank you guys very much for watching and I will see you guys later