This article was published on March 7, 2014

Apple’s first Mac OS X 10.9.3 beta boosts support for connected 4K displays at retina resolution


Apple’s first Mac OS X 10.9.3 beta boosts support for connected 4K displays at retina resolution

Apple has seeded the first beta of its OS X Mavericks version 10.9.3 to developers, and 9to5Mac reports that the update brings in support for users with Macbooks connected to 4K-resolution monitors.

Basically, Mac users can now natively set their 4K displays to run the Mac OS at a pixel-doubled retina resolution, resulting in much sharper content on your bigger screen. Before this update, content from the Mac showed up only on a larger scale with window elements spread out.

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9to5Mac also reports that the beta now lets the retina Macbook Pro support 4K displays with a refresh rate of 60Hz, which would make the display feel much smoother compared to an output of 30Hz or 24Hz.

Apple building support for driving 4K displays at ‘Retina’ resolution, 60Hz output from 2013 MacBook Pros [9to5Mac]

Image via 9to5Mac, thumbnail image via Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images

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