Macbook pro 2017 13" -worth getting a 4K UHD monitor for?

I’d say you’re on the right track, suefromrandolph

i have a 4k monitor and I love it- of course it’s a 42 incher

What you’d need to look for in a monitor is the panel technology

eg, not TN or TFT but IPS. And of course the monitor should support hdr( deep colour)

dolby vision or whatever else they use these days. You also want something that’ll produce a good black level and a good colour depth. Actually, yes, your MacBook Pro 2017 will support 4 k video output, maybe a little better either via thunderbolt 3, Or USB-c. It may do displayPort or Mini DisplayPort or even hdmi 2.0 but you might need an adapter for that.

good gracious,if you wanted to, you could even plug it into your living room tv. I dont know how that would work for telecommuting. You’d probably have to add a webcam... but it is quite possible... I’d also look at ones known to be ‘’mac friendly”

anyways all the best to you

john b

Yes it’s good. I think Apple was going for size+price + weight on the MacBook Pro 2017 13” . To have a 4k screen in there plus the graphics card built in to support it would have added to the cost And upped the weight a bit I suppose. No biggie but it would have been nice to have that option. The built in screen would do about 2k absolute max with 1440 x900 native resolution. Oh well- apart from switch res x that’s all I got

jb