Today’s featured Mac Studio setup may win the external display arms race — for bigger monitors and for more of them. A 4-display setup displayed on social media is not super rare, but one sporting such large screens is. This one pushes the limit of too much screen space with two stacked 57-inch curved ultra-wide Samsung displays bookended by two 32-inch Samsungs in portrait (vertical) orientation. Yikes, that’s a lot of screen.
How much is too much screen space? Mac Studio drives 4-display setup that tests the limit.
This big display is equivalent to dual 27-inch 4K UHD monitors. The 1000R curved gaming monitor features a 240Hz refresh rate, 1ms response time, DisplayPort 2.1 support, Quantum Mini-LED, DisplayHDR 1000 and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro (LS57CG952NNXZA, 2023).
- Massive screen real estate
- Great for gaming
- Fast refresh rate and response time
- Pretty pricey
Redditor Infinite-Sea-1913 (“IS”) showcased the wall of displays in a post entitled, “M2 Ultra MacStudio & 4 UHD panels.” They seemed delighted their powerful M2 Mac Studio Ultra could handle the quartet of Samsung screens.
“I wasn’t sure the Mac Studio would support them but I am so happy it did, two stacked Samsung Odyssey G9 57 inch and two Samsung M7D 32 inch, really happy with the setup!”
Commenters weren’t so sure, however.
“My neck hurts looking at this,” one joked.
“OP has done it: They’ve finally hit the limit of too much screen space,” added another. To which IS replied, “Yeah without the Aeron chair tilting I think I would have neck pain, but so far loving it!”
But why do you love it?
Then came the question: “Why? (Serious question).” Why do you love this massive mission-control-worthy wall of screens, someone seemed to ask.
“I work with a ton of VSCode instances and Xcode including various iOS and tvOS simulations, plus some terminals and Claude code,” IS replied. “This allows me to have everything without having to resort to various virtual desktops. Also I work with a second Mac Studio while the first one is busy (the project I work with takes 30 to 40 minutes to build from scratch so I can easily switch between Macs thanks to the integrated KVMs of the G9s [monitors].”
Another person joked they could never handle all the screens, needing just one big one to focus on.
“I have ADHD and take prescription meds, so avoiding switching virtual desktops has been fantastic for my focusing, specially since my brain does not go other rabbit holes because I selected the wrong virtual desktop and now I am chasing a complete different rabbit,” IS joked.
Getting cursor from screen to screen
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Is there a quick way to get your mouse from one screen to another?” asked a commenter.
“Yes, Magic Trackpad mouse speed set to 100% … mouse goes brrrrrr. Jokes aside, yeah, that is not really a problem with the trackpad — single swipe can take you anywhere. I switched from the MagicMouse and I have not looked back. I did have to add a wrist rest, or else I would have mild pain at the end of the day, but yeah setting tracking speed to 100% did it for me.”
Equipped for work on the road, too
Someone else inquired about IS’s “working-on-the-go situation,” as in, do they have a MacBook? IS replied saying they have a 12.9-inch iPad Pro and a 16-inch MacBook Pro.
“So when traveling I can do 2- or 3-monitor setup depending on the desk size I am on, but for most of the year I am a remote employee working from home,” IS repled. “I could also plug in my MBP to this setup but the Mac Studios have been plenty so far. My MBP is connected to an Ark monitor behind me but I only use it rarely maybe for macOS beta testing during the summer months or traveling.”
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- 57-inch Samsung Odyssey G9 monitors (2 stacked)
- 32-inch Samsung M70D 4K monitors (2 in portrait orientation)
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