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I use an LG 5k at work and it's fantastic. It's bright, clear, has great color, and is 2x retina resolution. It has a glossy screen but is bright enough to compensate for it in most circumstances.
There are two models out there, ones from the first batch and a recent re-release. The recent ones supply 94w of power through the Thunderbolt 3 cable whereas the old ones (which I have) only do 87w I believe. This is only relevant if you have a 2019 16" MacBook Pro as those ship with a 96w power brick and thus can draw more than the 15" models.
I have never used an Ultrawide so I don't know if that would be good for my workflow or not. It would be fun to try, but to be worth it I would need to be able to run it at 2x resolution.
Thanks for the reply. Looking at it blown up in size it's remarkable how many mistakes there are.
Can you elaborate on how it's improperly built and how it could be better?
We just started using MJML (https://mjml.io/) at my work and I can't say enough good things about it. You write your emails in their pseudo-HTML markup language and it outputs valid HTML markup that works in basically every email client, including all the variants of Outlook. They offer a nodeJS CLI tool as well as a very nice WYSIWYG tool for MacOS.
Thanks to this I hope to never have to hand-write or outsource another HTML email again.
I've ordered 2 MacBook Airs and a 13" MacBook Pro for my mom all from the Apple refurb section of the store. All of them looked and worked perfectly fine. I treat products from Apple's refurb site as basically good as new.
I think, at least in the case of Sketch, it probably had something to do with them changing their file format to proper JSON which is easier to diff. I just signed up for Abstract and just found out about Kactus so I need to see how these tools work in practice.
Thought this was worth sharing on the off chance your Mac Pro makes the cut: http://dosdude1.com/sierrapatch.html
I agree with the other suggestions here, adding more ram is easy but if you're already at 16 or sometimes even 8gb you won't notice much difference.
The biggest improvement you can make is putting in a solid state drive (SSD). If your hard drive is currently an old-school spinning disk putting in an SSD will make it feel like a new computer. I would recommend the following:
I'm happy to help with more details or assistance if you go down the path of an SSD upgrade. Good Luck!
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The LG 4K/5K are close. They support the P3 colorspace as do the Macbook Pro's retina displays. Do you use a color calibrator at all? If not I would suggest it.