How does the quality of the screen on the LG compare to the iMac 5K when you have them side by side. I am not into gaming at all either, but I do need crisp text as I do a lot of writing of curriculum. My photograpy is a hobby, but I do like to hear about the color accuracy. I do like the looks of the Ergo stand.
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I’ve got three of these and I think they’re great.
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Text is sharp, maybe a little bit less than the 5K Retina display but most definitely not noticeable from seating distance. But what impress me the most about the LG is color accuracy. Colors are natural and balanced. Color uniformity is GREAT. My 5K Retina display has red tinting on one side of the screen and blue on the other side since day one. The 32UN880-B does not.
Sometimes I run it at 4K but most of the time I change resolution to match Retina 5K screen size.
Same boat. I have a 27" Dell 4K and the same thing but in 24" as well, situated side by side. I have the 27" "main" monitor directly parallel to the desk, with the 24" "crooked", off to the side. I keep my "info" stuff on the smaller monitor (browser with emails, notes, collateral, etc) and the 27" is for the actual "work". I love the setup, and I would be really thrown off it it was all on one bigger screen. I'm sure I COULD get used to it, but boy am I bad with change!
OP: I imagine any decent 4K 27" would serve you well. Spend a little more for a thunderbolt monitor if you want to keep cable clutter to a minimum.
Let us know how it looks with text, because that one would likely also be my future pick.. I am quite sad that we can't get 5k2k ultrawides with proper specifications yet.
Yes, I can move my cursor from my external monitor to my ipad without issues
There‘s a good chance my display arrives days or week after the Mac Studio so I may have to resort to trying to use this via the hdmi connection (because I know I won’t be able to stop myself from powering the Mac up)
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I found it to be well suited to MBPs due to the variety and number of ports, it even has an ethernet. But the panel itself and color gamut coverage isn't the best out there, even among consumer display it is below average. For the Mac Studio the computer itself has enough I/O ports already so I think this Dell isn't exactly a great match, unless you also plan to plug MBPs to the same desk interchangeably.
I do like the variety of ports; then I could plug everything into the monitor. But you are correct, the Studio itself has enough I/O ports. The color gamut would be important because I use Photoshop and Lightroom. Which monitors could I consider that have a better color gamut? The color gamut on the U2723QE is as follows:
Color Gamut - 100% Rec 709, 100% sRGB, 98% DCI-P3
Unless I'm either missing something or looking at this the wrong way (which is possible), I think these numbers are pretty good.
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I just got this. Has anyone else had it? And what do you think? I'm leaning toward keeping but I'm not sure...
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any recommendation for a monitor stand that can fit the Studio below? With a clearance height of 9.5cm for the Studio, seems like it might not make sense to have the monitor place above the Studio - monitor position will be way too high for comfort?
I guess if the Studio is not going on the desk, then having ports in the display will be helpful like you say.
Then for color critical work it depends which medium is the most important to you. For print (pre-press or photography) I would say Adobe RGB 100% is the target to aim. If a photography workflow intends mostly for web / multimedia consumption than print delivery, then *maybe* this Dell is rated more or less right.
Personally I see Dell’s UP line more suited for photography. Even an older and cheaper model like the UP2716D has proper ARGB coverage and has out of factory uniformity compensation.
Then there is the ability to hardware calibrate and even feed a LUT to the display that would be needed for critical works, but of course your mileage varies if that’s necessary. Overall Dells even the mid to lower models have pretty good out of factory calibration so it cannot be that wrong.
I am not expert and was told that it doesnt affect the quality - for me, I have my 4k connected using HDMI.
You should avoid HDMI for color critical workflows, because it doesn't show the whole range of RGB colors (blacks and whites).
However in a new video he says that newer Macs send full range color gamut even through HDMI so it shouldn't be a problem:
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HDMI *could* output the same image as DP (over type-C or not) when done right. The problem is with recent macOS it is not always the case, at least not “out of the box” easy. I myself would deem a direct type-C to DP cable to be the least problematic way to connect, as far as recent Macs are concerned, especially on MacBooks without built-in HDMI.