iPad Air Monitor For Ipad Air 4

[ricksen24]

Hi Guys,

Wondering if anyone could recommend me a monitor for my Daughters iPad air 4

I understand certain ones have black lines at the sides and at the bottom visible?

We are looking for something in the 27inch area

As high a resolution as affordable

I'm confused and would appreciate any help!

Cheers

 

[retta283]

The iPad air 4 uses an aspect ratio slightly wider than 4:3 so you'd have to get a 4:3 monitor to have (almost) no black bars without stretching. I am not aware of anyone who still makes 4:3 monitors, the biggest and best you can get for reasonable price is a Dell 20.1" from 2006 or so with 1600x1200 res.

16:10 monitors will have smaller black bars than most standard 16:9 monitors, but they are a bit rarer. You can still find them but not as abundant. 16:9 is available everywhere but has the most black bars. I'd get a 32" 4k monitor, that will give you about 26" of viewable screen area.

 

[ricksen24]

The iPad air 4 uses an aspect ratio slightly wider than 4:3 so you'd have to get a 4:3 monitor to have (almost) no black bars without stretching. I am not aware of anyone who still makes 4:3 monitors, the biggest and best you can get for reasonable price is a Dell 20.1" from 2006 or so with 1600x1200 res.

16:10 monitors will have smaller black bars than most standard 16:9 monitors, but they are a bit rarer. You can still find them but not as abundant. 16:9 is available everywhere but has the most black bars. I'd get a 32" 4k monitor, that will give you about 26" of viewable screen area.

Thanks for the info

Could you point me in the direction of something?

Im not a DELL fan for no reason known to man haha

 

[retta283]

Thanks for the info

Could you point me in the direction of something?

Im not a DELL fan for no reason known to man haha

What sort of price range are you looking at? There's a lot of high-end options at this size for over $1,000, the cheapest I've seen myself is the BenQ EW3270U which comes in between $450 and $600 depending where you buy it. There could definitely be similar priced monitors that I am unaware of, hopefully someone else knows them or I could even have a more in depth search later.

 

[AutomaticApple]

I understand certain ones have black lines at the sides and at the bottom visible?

I'm pretty sure they all do (not to mention that the screen looks stretched) because iPads do not have proper external monitor support at the moment.

 

[ricksen24]

My Insane iPad Pro Setup with iPadOS! - YouTube

Something like this we are after but its jsut slightly expensive that screen i think

 

[ericwn]

External screens in the way they are currently supported on iPad to me only make sense in use cases with really bad eyesight.
The oversized touch interface just doesn’t cut it anywhere close to extended display mode.

 

[ricksen24]

Another stupid question

Could you cast say a game on the ipad to an imac screen?


So you can play the game on a bigger screen?

 

[getrealbro]

There are a FEW iPadOS 14 apps that take advantage of 1080P and larger external monitors — without the annoying black bars. In general these apps are for presentations (e.g. KeyNote and PowerPoint) or video (e.g. Amazon Video, Netflix, etc.).

Ironically these apps show how Apple COULD have implanted external monitor support for the iPad Air -- but didn't The presentation apps not only take advantage of a larger/wider external monitor. They don’t just mirror the iPad screen, they display the presentation as a “2nd” monitor or projector would on a Mac.

GetRealBro

 

[TomOSeven]

It's not a good experience to connect an iPad to an external screen.

I have a ThinkVision 16:10 monitor with an integrated USB-C hub that charges the iPad and does display + peripherals all on one display, so that's as good as it gets, and it's still a bad experience. You can't extend displays, you can't use the external monitor as a second screen, you can't even use it as the only screen. All you can is screen mirror. And since the apps are optimized for a smaller screen, that's just a whole lot of wasted space. And of course the black bars are yet more wasted space. And so are those rounded edges.

The only legitimate use I can think of: watching Netflix on a bigger screen. Yay.

If I were you, I'd just get my daughter a Raspberry Pi 400 and a cheap 1080p 27" monitor (both combined can be had for a like 200 dollars) if she needs a bigger screen and proper operating system.

 

[MevetS]

You might find this of interest: https://www.macstories.net/stories/beyond-the-tablet/12/#external-displays