I am retired, volunteering, and working with donating Apple devices to charities.
I was gifted a 2017 iMac, purchased new in 2019, which has a flawed screen. The damage was due to carelessness on the part of the owner & repairs would cost about $600.
Taking the less expensive route, I am investigating how much a 21” external monitor and adapter would cost (& which monitor and adapter are best) before passing this along to a charity for their disposition.
As I research this I found a thread on the Apple Support site about this and their discussion of which adapter and which monitor to purchase in order to get the best resolution. I found it all terribly confusing.
From Apple: The 13.3 " retina display of this MB Pro is capable of "2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors"; supported scaled resolutions are 1680x1050; 1440x900 and 1024x640.
Charging and expansion:
Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports with support for:
• Charging
• DisplayPort
• /Thunderbolt (up to 40Gb/s)
• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)
While on the one hand we don't want to spend the $600 for repairs, we don't want to cheap out on the monitor and adapter as we suspect that a good quality monitor and adapter will probably be less that half the price of the $600 repair.
We would be very grateful for any recommendations for 21" monitors and adapters that would allow us to pass this MBP on w/o spending $600 on repairs.
I was gifted a 2017 iMac, purchased new in 2019, which has a flawed screen. The damage was due to carelessness on the part of the owner & repairs would cost about $600.
Taking the less expensive route, I am investigating how much a 21” external monitor and adapter would cost (& which monitor and adapter are best) before passing this along to a charity for their disposition.
As I research this I found a thread on the Apple Support site about this and their discussion of which adapter and which monitor to purchase in order to get the best resolution. I found it all terribly confusing.
From Apple: The 13.3 " retina display of this MB Pro is capable of "2560-by-1600 native resolution at 227 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors"; supported scaled resolutions are 1680x1050; 1440x900 and 1024x640.
Charging and expansion:
Two Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) ports with support for:
• Charging
• DisplayPort
• /Thunderbolt (up to 40Gb/s)
• USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)
While on the one hand we don't want to spend the $600 for repairs, we don't want to cheap out on the monitor and adapter as we suspect that a good quality monitor and adapter will probably be less that half the price of the $600 repair.
We would be very grateful for any recommendations for 21" monitors and adapters that would allow us to pass this MBP on w/o spending $600 on repairs.
