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Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by smilebot »

samdixon wrote: post #24
lejalv wrote: post #21

This has pixels the size of my hand, and it fully covers my field of view. Not my cup of tea. What I do recommend (having bought one) is the Kuycon G32p, 32 inches @ 6K. Incredible quality and unbelievable value for money ( https://clickclack.io/products/in-stock-kuycon-g32p-6k-32-in... ).

this looks like a rip off of another monitor that I can't quite put my finger on...

And no extra charge to have an adjustable stand! How do they make money?

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by gouthamve »

I just setup mine today, and I am not sure I recommend it.

I went from a 40" to a 52", and I'm just moving my head waaay too much and my shoulders hurt. It is curved, but very little imo, it's almost like it's flat. I'm going to try it for a week before making the call on whether to return it.

I feel like this needs a workflow where you do work in the middle and use the fringes for other applications that you rarely look at. Otherwise you're moving your head waaay too much and squinting a bunch.

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by mixmastamyk »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #19

The smaller sizes would be nice if they had a 16:10 option. 16:9 just isn't a very nice aspect ratio imo, the extra height on 16:10 is much better.

To whoever needs to hear it, I will never buy another 16:9 monitor. Vastly prefer the 3:2 on my Framework and also liked an old 4:3 I had. Also great in portrait.

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by bityard »

piinbinary wrote: post #2

I have a 34" ultrawide and it is huge. I can't imagine a 52" - the edges would be so far away that it must be hard to read text without physically moving left/right

Do you... usually read content in a full-screen window on that thing?

I only have a 27" monitor and sit about 2.5 feet away from it and I move my head _slightly_ to focus on different windows. But that's the reason I have a larger monitor, so I can have a bunch of normal-sized windows open at once.

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by usaphp »

lejalv wrote: post #21

This has pixels the size of my hand, and it fully covers my field of view. Not my cup of tea. What I do recommend (having bought one) is the Kuycon G32p, 32 inches @ 6K. Incredible quality and unbelievable value for money ( https://clickclack.io/products/in-stock-kuycon-g32p-6k-32-in... ).

Lg has a similar model: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/lg-ultrafineevo-32-6k-nano-i...

Re: Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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Post by cosmic_cheese »

gouthamve wrote: post #32

I just setup mine today, and I am not sure I recommend it. I went from a 40" to a 52", and I'm just moving my head waaay too much and my shoulders hurt. It is curved, but very little imo, it's almost like it's flat. I'm going to try it for a week before making the call on whether to return it. I feel like this needs a workflow where you do work in the middle and use the fringes for other applications that you rarely…

Based on personal experience, I think the upper bound for comfortably useful size at normal sitting distances is probably about 32", and even then I think there'd be better returns on adding vertical pixels to a ~27" monitor. A modern equivalent to the old 16:10 30" 2560x1600 monitors (ideally 2x scaling 5120x3200) would be great for example, but one could also imagine a 4:3 or 5:4 monitor with the same width (~23.5") as current 16:9 27" monitors.
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