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Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by indemnity »

eikenberry wrote: post #40
Xeoncross wrote: post #27

I really wish more people wanted screens that looked as good as their cellphone. Bright, sharp text, great color. We've had the great Apple Studio Display for years now, it's about time others came to fix some of it's short-comings like 27" size, 60hz and lack of HDMI ports for use with other systems. So many of us have to stare at a screen for hours every day and having one that reduces strain on my eyes is well wor…

We do, but many of us also want to play a game on occasion and GPUs can barely just handle 4k these days, let alone 6k+.

I game at 6K… I don’t play shooters so it’s fine. I turn off VSync, get 100FPS+ in my game of choice (WoW, admittedly and oldish engine). 4090 GPU.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by futuraperdita »

nospice wrote: post #45
Xeoncross wrote: post #27

I really wish more people wanted screens that looked as good as their cellphone. Bright, sharp text, great color. We've had the great Apple Studio Display for years now, it's about time others came to fix some of it's short-comings like 27" size, 60hz and lack of HDMI ports for use with other systems. So many of us have to stare at a screen for hours every day and having one that reduces strain on my eyes is well wor…

I don't think people care all that much about phones. It's just that phones are power-constrained, so manufacturers wanted to move to OLEDs to save on backlight; and because the displays are small, the tech was easier to roll out there than on 6k 32-inch monitors. But premium displays exist. IPS displays on higher-end laptops, such as ThinkPads, are great - we're talking stuff like 14" 3840x2160, 100% Adobe RGB. The…

Which ThinkPad has a 14" 4K 100% Adobe RGB compliant IPS display?

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by weiliddat »

Kristopher1337 wrote: post #99
acchow wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people run in some hiDPI mode so text doesn’t become tiny But 1440p on a 45” is not good PPI. That could be why you’re struggling to see text clearly

This interaction fully flushes out the problem. The math is not being done between size and resolution to determine PPI.

Yeah PPD is more useful, although for ultrawide I’ve also heard it’s common to have it closer than regular viewing distance, so that you can glance at side screens / information

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by thecopy »

ginko wrote: post #79
deminature wrote: post #74

Apple has updated Studio Display and XDR coming out soon, they just filed for regulatory approval in China, which historically has meant 1-3 months until release [1]. The updated models are expected to have a 2000+ zone Mini LED backlight and 120hz refresh rate, while the LG is old technology - 60hz and edge lit, plus the matte coating is anecdotally quite blurry and loses a lot of the detail of the 6K panel. May be…

The apple display will have a complete fantasy price. Why even bother waiting for that?

The XDR - agree - but not the Studio

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by Fluorescence »

futuraperdita wrote: post #122
nospice wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think people care all that much about phones. It's just that phones are power-constrained, so manufacturers wanted to move to OLEDs to save on backlight; and because the displays are small, the tech was easier to roll out there than on 6k 32-inch monitors. But premium displays exist. IPS displays on higher-end laptops, such as ThinkPads, are great - we're talking stuff like 14" 3840x2160, 100% Adobe RGB. The…

Which ThinkPad has a 14" 4K 100% Adobe RGB compliant IPS display?

As far as I can see, 4k Thinkpad IPS are DCI-P3. There are Yogas with 3.2k Adobe RGB tandem OLEDs.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by Mean_Mystic »

eikenberry wrote: post #40
Xeoncross wrote: post #27

I really wish more people wanted screens that looked as good as their cellphone. Bright, sharp text, great color. We've had the great Apple Studio Display for years now, it's about time others came to fix some of it's short-comings like 27" size, 60hz and lack of HDMI ports for use with other systems. So many of us have to stare at a screen for hours every day and having one that reduces strain on my eyes is well wor…

We do, but many of us also want to play a game on occasion and GPUs can barely just handle 4k these days, let alone 6k+.

That’s not really true. I tried out 5K which would reasonably be quite heavy, but honestly with a DLSS it’s super viable. If you get the gaming versions of these displays, they also have dual modes and in that mode a 6K display is going to be less heavy to run than a 4K one and a 5K display is going to be 1440p.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by jlokier »

MBCook wrote: post #97
dzogchen wrote: post #86

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They may have fractional scaling but font rendering absolutely sucks if you don’t have 200dpi or more. I tried using macOS on a 4K 27 inch monitor and it was pretty unbearable. Worse than a 1080p monitor on Windows or Linux.

They stopped shipping computers that have less than that. They clearly think that’s the minimum that’s viable. Personally, I’m fine with that. It’s 2026 and I don’t understand why people are using 1080p monitors for work.

Some people don't have a choice. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46698278

"The company I work at gives all new developers a pair of 1080p displays that could have come right out of 2010."

I have the same problem. The monitors at the office where I currently work are all low-DPI.

Work is quite irrational when it comes to spending decisions. It's not just penny pinching. They waste a lot of time and money at the same time as they block and worry about much smaller expenses. Asking them to provide one or two good, modern monitors at non-trivial cost would likely be described something as a "luxury" or "treat", which is how they described my personal laptop when they found out how much it cost.

At least I'm able to use my own laptop at the current job. It's much more powerful than anything the company would provide.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by BoredomIsFun »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #118
BoredomIsFun wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It needs to be independently measured, not just retold from the spec.

"I measured the average color error" "I was able to measure 640 nits" I don't see the problem.

Ok fine yes, I missed it, but average Delta-E measured without specifying what mode it was measured in, what is the maximum Delta-E (not average - I've used monitors with average dE below one with massive greenish/pinkish color tints, as maximum dE on some colors well exceeded 4), what was deltaE away from the center, what was gamma and colorspace coverage error, is pointless. Check prad.de, they do it right way.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by BoredomIsFun »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #119
BoredomIsFun wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Rtings good at measures, but bad at conclusions. Take their numbers and make your own opinion. Prad.de is better at that respect.

They do a good job of supporting whatever comparisons you want to make, which is useful if you have different preferences; however, I do think they have clear conclusions in many cases, to capture strengths, weaknesses, and "best of" recommendations.

Their, rtings.com "conclusions", "scores" and "recommendations" do not always correspond to their own numbers.

Re: LG UltraFine Evo 6K 32-inch Monitor Review

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

wolvoleo wrote: post #70
adrian_b wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a Linux user, I am confused when I hear other people talking about "scaling" and even more when they talk about being able to use only a restricted set of values for "scaling". For much more than a decade, I have not used any monitor with a resolution less than 4k with Linux. I have never used any kind of "scaling" and I would not want to use any kind of "scaling", because that by definition means a lower image qu…

It's probably called scaling because that's what other OSes do. For example macOS just renders at 200% and then scales down to the desired level. Linux is indeed way better at this.

macOS is better when you have a 216 dpi monitor. Every application works perfectly which you can't say about Linux.
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