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Great review. Are you returning the monitor? Also, have you kept the Kinesis 360 keyboard and did you get used to the plam pads? Personally, I'm using the palm pads of the Advantage 2.
I kept the 360, but am currently using the Advantage 2 again. I never got used to the 360 palm pads.
Although I haven’t used these monitors, my experience with high dpi on windows and Linux has been a nightmare compared to OSX. It’s surprising me the non Mac world hasn’t made this a bigger priority.
Modern Linux DPI support is a nightmare. It's a shame, since if you just run and old-school software stack (X11; minimal window manager; xrandr to adjust DPI if you hotplug a monitor), then it has much nicer font rendering than Mac OS. This is particularly frustrating since I've been using high DPI displays since the CRT days. Everything horribly regressed about a decade ago, and still isn't back to 1999 standards.
Where things go haywire is mixed resolution. It's best avoided :-\ Hence now I have a 28" 4k external screen which is exactly like four 14" FHD screens of my laptop, so the DPI stays strictly the same.
Great review. Are you returning the monitor? Also, have you kept the Kinesis 360 keyboard and did you get used to the plam pads? Personally, I'm using the palm pads of the Advantage 2.
Yeah, I’m returning it. I kept the 360, but am currently using the Advantage 2 again. I never got used to the 360 palm pads.
Re Kinesis: I have mixed feelings as well but in the meantime I got used to the 360 model. With the old palm pads, it feels more like the Advantage 2. I'm a bit sad that I didn't order the pro model. I really liked my Advantage 2 as well, but I can't go back to it as some electronic part seems to be damaged. It just seems to send random characters without touching the keyboard.
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It's been pretty amazing how stagnant the monitor space is. I too am really craving an 8k@120 monitor, although there's a decent chance I'll balk at the price.
It’s crazy how much of a regression there was in resolution and picture quality when we went from CRT to LCD displays. In the late 90’s you could get a CRT that did 2048x1536 no sweat with great color and decent refresh rate. Then suddenly LCD displays became the standard and they looked awful. Low resolutions, terrible colors and bad viewing angles. The only real advantage they had was size. It took a decade or so t…
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Not for tmux + firefox
Unless people are far more sensitive than I am, I don't see how >60Hz is needed for a desktop workstation environment. High frame rate is really only noticeable for very fast reaction time gaming. 4K 120Hz may be noticeable if editing ultra high frame rate video on a video editing workstation, but if you are a video production crew with a camera capable of recording at that framerate, you probably already know that.
Friends dont let friends buy Dell monitors.
Why is it that pretty much all displays in the PC world have such dismal pixel densities (< 226 ppi)? It would be nice to be able to shop for a new desktop display without having to give up Retina in macOS.
Slightly off topic but I can’t wait until there’s a 120 Hz 8K monitor. It’s the only thing holding me back from upgrading from 4K. I wonder if the current limitation is on the panels, cable bandwidth or absurd price tag…
8k@120Hz is going to need one heck of a video card
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What is your actual use case apart from technology fetishism?
I guess you could look at the use-cases for 120Hz displays on MacBook Pros. It's useful for smoother scrolling amongst other things. I'd like a display that has parity to my laptop but is just bigger so I can fit more on it.
Previously, I actually often felt motion sickness when scrolling through code on small 60hz laptop screens. Had no problems with larger (> 23") desktop screens, though.