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macOS optimizes for either standard displays (100-110 ppi) or Retina displays (200-220 ppi). Lastly, a 27" 4K display is an especially bad choice for a Mac. Essentially the OS is going to optimize its internal rendering for one or the other and then use post-render GPU scaling to resize that rendered output for the other display, which will cause that other display not to look as good as it could otherwise.Ĥ.
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Mixing displays with vastly different pixel densities, such as a 27" 4K display (163 ppi) and a 24" 1080p display (94 ppi) isn't a great idea due to how OS rendering works. And neither your system nor displays support the newer DisplayPort 1.4/HBR3 standard.ģ. That display will singlehandedly consume almost the full bandwidth available on a DisplayPort 1.2/HBR2 link, so you won't even have enough bandwidth left over to run a 1080p display as well, even if you were using a Windows system that supported daisy chaining in general. Even if the above weren't an issue, you have a bandwidth issue. Ironically if you install Boot Camp on a Mac to run Windows, a daisy chain works fine in that setup, so this is an OS limitation, not a hardware issue.Ģ. This has been the subject of complaint for years on this forum, Apple's forums, and elsewhere on the Internet. macOS does not support DisplayPort MST, which is required for daisy chaining. There are several problems with this setup.ġ.