Curved widescreen monitor for Macbook Pro

[272BHP]

I am looking at getting a 34 - 38 inch curved widescreen for office work but it is an absolute nightmare trying to figure out the different models.

Amazon product details rarely say if these are USB-C or Thunderbolt or if they provide charging for the Macbook - if they do they hardly ever specify wattage.

Can anyone recommend one? As black friday is coming up I need at least a couple to hot list.

[mikef]

Dell 3818DW provides power to the MacBook Pro and USB3 signal to the monitor via a single USB3 cable. It also acts as a KVM, so you can switch screen, keyboard and mouse to other inputs (to any two of DP, HDMI1 and HDMI2 as well as the USB-C input)

The only disadvantage of the single cable is that the USB ports on the monitor are limited to USB2 speed, which is why I now use a Thunderbolt dock between MacBook Pro and monitor

[272BHP]

Ouch that Dell comes in at over a grand I was looking for something around the 600 mark

[mikef]

Dell’s DW3818 is regularly on sale a bit under a grand. Maybe on Black Friday? Not sure what you’d get from other makes at a lower price point, hopefully someone will be able to recommend

[anonymous-user]

Please tell me if I’m missing something here, but does the monitor have to power the MacBook and be USB-C etc?

I use a 2019 MacBook Pro with the dual USB-C ports, and I have it plugged almost permanently into a pair of 24” Dell IPS monitors when I’m at home.

I have a £15 adaptor that sends my MacBook USB-C output to the monitors HDMI inputs, and also charges the MacBook, does all the USB inputs for external drives etc. Works perfectly.

When I dock my MacBook at home, I just plug the 2 USB-C cables in and that’s it. Powered, connected to the dual screens, and plugged into my printer and external drives etc.

[VEX]

Bought Mrs Vex WFH desk a Dell U3415 Ultrawide a couple of weeks ago and she enjoys working on it. £550

I want one to, but also Dell have the new P3421 for £579 and the sound bar for £14.

It is connecting to window pc's but via HDMI so should work with Macs too.

[E36evo]

Have a look at the Philips 346B1C its around £400 and gets great reviews. I use with a MacBook Pro or Dell Latitude just the one cable to swop over which chargers the Mac and Dell. I have a high def web cam, Jabra speaker, WD drive and iPhone charging cable, Lan cable all connected to the dock.

For me it works really. Just a couple of minor things to lookout for.

1) The power switch is hard to find when you want to completely power off
2) The Mac finds itself on the network due to having both the wired cable and wireless connection active, which generates an error message followed by renaming itself. Easy to stop by not using the cable or turning the Wi-fi on and off.