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Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by moltar » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:14 PM UTC

system2 wrote: post #182

A 4k 32" monitor is $300. Why pay $700 for this when we can use a similar one? Is it just the ratio?

Any you’d recommend in this price range? I’m looking for something like MacBook “retina” quality. Thank you.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by kposehn » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:14 PM UTC

JimRoepcke wrote: post #157

I received one last week. Works great on my M1 MBP. I have a 16:9 monitor above the MBP and the LG to the right of it, but now I want to get a keyboard, trackpad and webcam so I can swap the positions of the monitors and have the LG as my main monitor. My only complaint is it’s not as wide as a 27” monitor despite having the same resolution as Thunderbolt Displays / 27” iMacs. So the pixels are smaller. The width is…

Were you able to get proper hidpi scaling on it without artifacts/blurriness or are you just letting it run at native scaling?

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by wodenokoto » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:17 PM UTC

So this is two 16:9 stacked on top of each other. Each with 2560x1440 resolution and each … how many inches?

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by p1esk » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:21 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #134

throwawaymaths wrote: post #35

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I'm double-extending vscode: top monitor gets the code, bottom laptop screen gets the terminal (vscode click-to-goto file/line in stdout/stderr output is just too powerful)

why can't those be put in different spaces and just switch between spaces using keyboard. Whats the advantage of putting terminal in another monitor. This has puzzled me for a long time as to why ppl use multiple monitors at all. Is the idea that your peripheral vision is monitoring terminal window ?

I have two 32" external monitors connected to my 17" laptop, so I use 3 screens: the laptop screen is usually for browser/slack/email, first external monitor is for Vscode code editor, second monitor is for tmux (watching a bunch of ML experiments on GPU servers).

I don't want to use different spaces on the same screen, to me it's like context switching, and I don't like that. I prefer to have everything open in front of me, so I just turn my head slightly to see what I need to see. It's like having a large work table where I can fit all my tools and materials.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by mdp2021 » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:25 PM UTC

pcurve wrote: post #186

mdp2021 wrote: post #115

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According to what you are writing, it is much bigger than your display: if your display had a 27'' diagonal, and was 25'' wide, it would be 10'' tall. (Which makes little sense: it would be a 5:2 proportion.) So it would have an area of 250 sqi. Versus the ~350 sqi of the LG. (It is quite a jump: the rounded √2 jump, 5:7, Ax proportion, "do it twice to double".) The steeper (or flatter) the proportion, the less the a…

'if your display had a 27'' diagonal, and was 25'' wide, it would be 10'' tall." 10" tall? I think your math is off. My monitor is P2175Q. Dimension with bezel 25.2 x 16.7. LCD alone is 23.5 x 13.25".

> I think your math is off

How? Have you verified it? √(625+100) = ~26.9

You brought the measurements of your 16:9 : yes, one of the points was that a 27'' diagonal with a 25'' side cannot be 16:9, and is in fact more like 5:2, as written. Going from 25'' to 23.5'' makes a lot of difference in proportions.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by layer8 » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:30 PM UTC

I’m waiting for a 200+ DPI OLED monitor with something like 4500 x 3000 resolution.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by orthoxerox » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

I wish USB-C single cable solution would become standard on all screens, along with a built-in USB/BT hub. Then we could revisit the idea of thumbstick PCs. I am not a big fan of laptops and would gladly carry a Mars bar-sized computer with me instead.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by karamanolev » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:34 PM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #219

lambdaba wrote: post #158

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3:2 is ideal, Microsoft's Surface Book series have it

I believe I’d slightly prefer 16:11 if that existed, but it’s pretty close to 3:2.

3:2 is 16:10.66, so basically the same as 16:11.

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by locofocos » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:36 PM UTC

iLoveOncall wrote: post #68

chrisseaton wrote: post #57

Wow these are the worst possible product photos - does it have a bezel in the middle or not?

I think it's pretty evident from this photo that it does not: https://www.lg.com/us/images/features/mnt-dualup-ergo-28mq78... It should also be obvious given that it is not 2 monitors but a single 16:18 monitor...

I have one- I can confirm, no bezel. It's just a single contiguous panel as far as I can tell. I does have software support for feeding 2 inputs into the top/bottom, but by default it just hooked up as a single monitor. Looks great!

Re: LG 28-inch 16:18 DualUp Monitor

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Post by iblaine » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 8:37 PM UTC

sbf501 wrote: post #103

My cervical vertebrae are cowering in fear. I'd rather twist left to right and put the burden on muscles, than over-articulate my neck.

In my experience, 27" monitors on top of each other will hurt your neck and/or eyes, and side by side is more comfortable.