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Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by awakeasleep »

account_taken wrote: post #54

Are these as good as the Apple Cinema Display? Still haven't found anything with text as crisp my ACD (waiting for ACD retina). I've seen better for graphics but not text. Dell Ultrasharps for example are awesome for graphics and yes better than ACD but for programming the anti-glare on Dells is annoying like looking at a vampire from Twilight in the sunlight.

Boy will that be a rough day for my checking account. I think we're looking at a multi-year wait though, considering the difficulty Apple is having shipping 27" iMacs with the same old display bonded to the front-glass.

I remain optimistic though. We won't need 300dpi on standard computer monitors, because we sit so much further away from them. My current cinema display still looks pretty decent compared to 'retina' portable devices.

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

mwill wrote: post #100
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #20

I have a Crossover 27Q (similar to this, probably sourced from the same place as other brands on ebay: Catleap, Shimian, wherever Monoprice is getting them, etc). Gorgeous minimalist metallic shell. Swivel display. Adjustable height. $375 from Ebay. Pixel perfect. I can't exaggerate how amazing these displays are. They're the same LG panels used in Apple Cinema displays at nearly a third of the cost. It's wonderful t…

About the HDMI/DVI issues, heres an overview of my (possibly incorrect) understanding, for those wondering (Note the resolutions listed can be fudged a bit by messing with display rate, ie it may be possible to get a single link dvi to display 2440 1400 @ 33hz) DVI-A/I/D Single link supports up to around 1920x1200 * DVI-I/D Dual Link supports 2560x1600+ * HDMI * HDMI 1.3 supports up to 2560x1600 * HDMI 1.4 supports u…

I don't doubt this info, it jives with what I know, but I know that HD4000 will not drive this display over HDMI on my friends mobo (which coincides with the other anecdotes I've seen).

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by akurilin »

Osiris wrote: post #16

I hope this is a trend towards higher resolution monitors and displays in general.

I'm there with you. I'd proverbially kill for something like a 27" Thunderbolt with a 260+ PPI that I could actually afford. I don't think it's happening for a long time though.

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by thomasbk »

wmf wrote: post #46
joe_the_user wrote: post #3

What I'd be curious about is when PC laptops with equivalent resolution are going to arrive?

High-DPI doesn't work in Windows (officially it does work, but if you try it you'll find that every app is broken), so that's effectively an unsellable product.

I've been using high-ish DPI in Windows for a few months now ("Windows XP style"), and I pretty much never encountry any problems. Only apps I've encountered that don't scale are some Java apps.

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by muhfuhkuh »

still wrote: post #71
tnorthcutt wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So will a cheap mini displayport -> DVI adapter like this: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&c... not work for one of these displays, coupled with a Macbook Air (2012)?

I bought Apple's dual link adapter ( http://store.apple.com/au/product/MB571Z/A/mini-displayport-... ) . Was on special at a local store. It's not without problems, particularly awaking from sleep sometimes leading to "static" image blur requiring reconnection of the adapter.

Odd, I bought the dual-link adapter from monoprice and I thought I got gypped when my wife's Yamakasi Catleap would wake from sleep that way. I guess mini-displayport is just flaky in general.

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by midko »

SquareWheel wrote: post #66
ars wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get the Asus PA248Q. It's a calibrated IPS monitor, 24" 1920x1200 (i.e. 16:10). I have one and it's great.

I really like 16:10, not sure why 16:9 is so much more common.

16:9 are physically smaller and use less material yet able to maintain the same screen size specification as a 16:10 monitor. Hence such difference is often missed/ignored by the ordinary customer and hence manufacturers are able to get away with this. In other words, 16:9 monitors == higher profit margins

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by gavanwoolery »

mwill wrote: post #100
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #20

I have a Crossover 27Q (similar to this, probably sourced from the same place as other brands on ebay: Catleap, Shimian, wherever Monoprice is getting them, etc). Gorgeous minimalist metallic shell. Swivel display. Adjustable height. $375 from Ebay. Pixel perfect. I can't exaggerate how amazing these displays are. They're the same LG panels used in Apple Cinema displays at nearly a third of the cost. It's wonderful t…

About the HDMI/DVI issues, heres an overview of my (possibly incorrect) understanding, for those wondering (Note the resolutions listed can be fudged a bit by messing with display rate, ie it may be possible to get a single link dvi to display 2440 1400 @ 33hz) DVI-A/I/D Single link supports up to around 1920x1200 * DVI-I/D Dual Link supports 2560x1600+ * HDMI * HDMI 1.3 supports up to 2560x1600 * HDMI 1.4 supports u…

To add to this problem, some graphics cards (such as ATI/AMD's Eyefinity) only have two display clocks and cannot output over hdmi/dvi without a special active (non-passive) adapter.

Re: Monoprice Announces 27-Inch 2560 x 1440 Monitor for $390

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Post by stickydink »

dantiberian wrote: post #19

One thing to be aware of is that all of the cheap 27" monitors I've seen (including the Monoprice one) have a DVI-Dual link cable only. If you have an old Macbook Pro then it will have a port for this built in, modern Macs don't have this and PC's may do. I tried to skimp and buy a cheap passive Dual-Link DVI - Display Port adaptor but it didn't work so I had to buy an active one. I'm pretty sure that Dual-Link DVI a…

I tried a bunch of cheap DisplayPort -> Dual-Link DVI cables with my 27" Shimian, and none of them worked.

I gave up, splashed $100 on the official apple (active, USB powered) one, and it worked straight away.

It did work straight up with my PC desktop though (almost all decent new GPUs have DL-DVI output), so you don't always need to compromise with a wire purchase.

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