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Comment by rlam2x51 | Hacker News Reader

My favourite feature about this release is that support for ultra wide monitors dramatically improved.

I bought a MacBook Pro (M5 Pro) in march and was shocked that it did not work properly with my LG 38WN95C-W Monitor (3840x1600@144Hz via USB-C).

This has been fixed with macOS 27. I finally can use the native resolution + HiDPI with my monitor.

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Oh! How's the text rendering now? In macOS 26 I had to return a new ultrawide because macOS hates non-retina displays and text was blurry af. Worth trying now?

Yes, it fully works for me!

Terminal:

  system_profiler SPDisplaysDataType

Output:

macOS 26:

  Displays:
    LG HDR WQHD+:
      Resolution: 6400 x 2666
      UI Looks like: 3200 x 1333 @ 120.00Hz

macOS 27:

  Displays:
    LG HDR WQHD+:
      Resolution: 7680 x 3200
      UI Looks like: 3840 x 1600 @ 120.00Hz

144 Hz works as well.

I had to undo some of my previous configurations (0: disabled, 2: default)

  defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

Apple lists ultrawide display support as a feature:

  Ultrawide display support. Now you can get higher resolutions on ultrawide displays, such as 5K at 120Hz. And your display arrangements stay exactly as you left them, for a seamless experience every time you plug in.

Copied from: https://www.apple.com/os/macos/

Previous discussion about macOS 26 Problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569502

Thank you very much!

I got a MacBook a few weeks ago, first Apple computer I have ever owned. I was so surprised when I plugged my 4K monitor into it, there didn't seem to be a way to run it at native resolution and all the text was aliased.

macOS has no problem running 4k displays for like forever. We're talking about ultrawide non-retina screens, and these had various problems.

They hide native resolution on a lot of displays.

Text is blurry on those as a result.

Thankfully, my desktops all run x11, so Apple’s fractional scaling brainrot hasn’t spread to my Linux or BSD’s yet.

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