The 5 Best Monitors For MacBook Pro - Fall 2020
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The best external monitor for MacBook Pro is the ASUS TUF VG27AQ. It's mainly designed for gaming, and it delivers great overall performance for most uses. It's well-built with amazing ergonomics, allowing you to place it how you like.

It uses an IPS panel that provides wide viewing angles, great for sharing your screen with others. It performs well in most brightly-lit office environments as it gets bright enough to combat glare and has decent reflection handling. It has a flicker-free backlight and some nice extra features like built-in speakers. If you're going to use it for gaming, it has an outstanding response time, a very low input lag, and it has native FreeSync support to reduce screen tearing.

Sadly, it doesn't have a USB hub, so you can't charge your MacBook and display an image from it with a single cable. It's not ideal for photo editors as its coverage of the Adobe RGB color space is a bit limiting, and there's noticeable color bleed when displaying vertical bars of solid colors, which isn't good for photo editing. On the upside, it has excellent gray uniformity, so solid colors across the screen look great. Overall, this is the best monitor for MacBook Pro we've seen.

The best monitor for MacBook Pro with an ultrawide screen is the LG 34GN850-B. It has a 1440p resolution with a 21:9 aspect ratio, offering you enough space to open multiple windows at once. Although it's mainly designed to be for gaming, it offers good overall performance.

It's a good office monitor as its IPS panel provides fairly wide viewing angles. It gets bright enough to combat glare and has decent reflection handling. It's also very good for content creators as it has excellent coverage of the Adobe RGB color space used in photo editing and great coverage of the DCI-P3 color space used in most HDR content. It also has great out-of-the-box color accuracy, so unless your work demands the most accurate colors possible, you won't need to pay extra to get it calibrated.

Sadly, it doesn't have a USB-C input that would optimize the user experience for a MacBook Pro owner. Still, it has two USB 3.0 ports, so you can charge your devices while working. It also has excellent gray uniformity, so solid colors across the screen, such as on a web page, look great. All in all, most people should be happy with this ultrawide.

The best monitor for MacBook Pro in the budget category is the ASUS ProArt Display PA278QV. It's mainly designed to be an office monitor, and it offers great all-around performance. The 27 inch, 1440p screen helps deliver clear and crisp images, and it's great for multitasking.
 
It has one of the best stands we've seen. It has an incredibly wide swivel range, so it's really easy to place it in an ideal position. It has an IPS panel with very wide viewing angles, which is great for sharing your screen with others. If you work in a bright environment, it gets bright enough to combat glare and has good reflection handling. The out-of-the-box accuracy is very good, and it has amazing screen uniformity, although these may vary between units. Even though it's limited to a 75HZ panel, it's good for casual gamers as it has a really quick response time and low input lag.

Unfortunately, it doesn't support HDR and has a low contrast ratio, so it's not ideal for watching movies in dark rooms. It has some nice extra features, like built-in speakers and a USB hub. However, it doesn't have a USB-C input. All in all, this is a great option that won't cost you much, making it one of the best monitors for MacBook Pro in the budget category that we've tested.