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This one kills me. With COVID, I'm now stuck working from home. I literally spend all day staring at my work Macbook Pro's small screen with a glorious but unused iMac screen sitting five inches behind it.

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Same here - using my MacBook Pro when working from home. I was very fortunate though to get me a Dell 2415Q in January. While not being quite as good as the iMac, it is a good "retina" screen. Can only recommend it.

Previously, I would sometimes use screen sharing to use the desktop of my MacBook onto my iMac, but due to its slow speed, that is only an emergency measure.

Any experience on 24" vs 27" for the same 4k resolution?

The large the screen, the less the resolution in ppi gets. I have seen a 28" 4k screen at a mac - much more fuzzy as the pixels get larger. Actually, to get the same ppi as in the iMac, you would need a 22" 4k screen. So the 24" works in scaled mode, which gives about 2300 horizontal points, this is still reasonably sharp.

Why don't you work on your iMac?

Many people are only able to work on machines provisioned by their companies. Even if you could get your home iMac provisioned during Covid, you may be wiping out all your personal data and now you are dedicating a machine you paid for to your company.

It's my personal machine and I can only use work-provisioned computers for (entirely reasonable) security reasons.

Cmd-f2 on your iMac (while plugged into your MacBook over usb-c), will allow you to use your iMac as an external display.

This doesn't work on iMacs after 2015 to my knowledge. Do you have any reference, that Apple brought the feature back?

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