Mac Mini M4 Pro Display Resolutions

Buried in an image halfway down the page is someone’s Apple Support outcome:

“Apple are aware of the issue and it will be fixed in an upcoming update.”

Interesting - looks like it's not a regular 16x9 "5K" (5120x2880) monitor like the iMac 27/Ultrafine 5K/Apple Studio but is a "5K2K" 5120x2160 widescreen.

Strange that the M4 mini doesn't support all of the resolutions that the M1 mini supported out of the box.

Same discussion reported on 9to5mac: https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/30/m4-mac-ultrawide-monitor/

I wish it weren't necessary, but BetterDisplay has been helpful with these types of issues in my experience. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

It's clear that macOS's naïve resolution scaling is inferior to Windows native resolution and app scaling. On anything other than Apple display hardware (non-industry standard native resolutions), macOS looks comically big (1080p on 4k 32") or too small (4k native 32").

It's interesting that for the longest time Apple held a firm position of publishing the most elegant operating system, but their technical strategies that took them into the HDPI era are not aging well at all.