Pretty please, I'd like there to be more commercial e-ink monitors, not just the $2K Dasung Paperlike 253. And if it's not asking too much, color too.
BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
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Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#42I still don't get why there aren't enough monitor panels that are 5K so they can fit with Macintosh's retina standard. What ends up happening is the scaling is done at an incorrect multiple so the dpi causes text to be blurry and not clear. I guess will have to stick with my LG Ultrafine for another year.
Until recently, you had to make trade-offs between physical dimensions, pixel density, and refresh rate. Almost nobody prioritized pixel density. But now DisplayPort and HDMI have enough bandwidth that you can have 120 Hz 5k/6k displays, so maybe resolutions higher than 4k will finally become common.
Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#4360hz refresh rate? That's unfortunate. Love the 3:2 aspect ratio. But I would expect at least 100 - 120hz these days.
Vast majority of 120+ Hz displays are 1080p only. That's for gaming. 4k at 120 Hz will need DisplayPort 2.0 and a powerful GPU to provide that bandwidth (40 Gbit/sec). Practically useless for its intended purpose (coding). Will increase the cost for no benefit. Waste of money.
I like to be able to scroll and read at the same time. To do that comfortably you need at least 120hz.
Vast majority of $250+ monitors are 100hz or over. This is not a cheap monitor, I think expecting a better refresh rate is a reasonable expectation.
Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
For every unit of height, there is 1.5 units of width. A traditional monitor is 16:9: that means for every unit of height, there is 1.77 units of height. It sounds like a small difference, but it means a ~15% increase in height. ex. my Visual Studio Code would show 70 lines of code instead of 60. This is an especially good tradeoff for code, because we tradtional line wrap at ~80 characters, which leaves large swaths…
Maybe I’m old, but traditionally monitors where 4:3 until mid to late 2000s when they shifted to 16:10 then 16:9.
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#46Not sure if 3:2 aspect ratio is really optimized for programmers, but it might be something well appreciated by photographers since a lot of cameras (digital and film) use 3:2 aspect ratio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_image_resolutions_used...
Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#47I would definitely appreciate the extra vertical space but I wish it was 32 inches. I don’t know if many people can comfortably use the native resolution with 100% scaling on a 28 inch screen.
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#48I still don't get why there aren't enough monitor panels that are 5K so they can fit with Macintosh's retina standard. What ends up happening is the scaling is done at an incorrect multiple so the dpi causes text to be blurry and not clear. I guess will have to stick with my LG Ultrafine for another year.
I use a similar monitor to this and I don’t notice the difference between 4K+ at 28” and the Retina display on my MacBook. The difference between the 4K and a 27” QHD that I sometimes use at work is quite noticeable.
Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
For every unit of height, there is 1.5 units of width. A traditional monitor is 16:9: that means for every unit of height, there is 1.77 units of height. It sounds like a small difference, but it means a ~15% increase in height. ex. my Visual Studio Code would show 70 lines of code instead of 60. This is an especially good tradeoff for code, because we tradtional line wrap at ~80 characters, which leaves large swaths…
Maybe I’m old, but traditionally monitors where 4:3 until mid to late 2000s when they shifted to 16:10 then 16:9.
Right on my cusp, I still remember salivating for one of those straight from the Jetsons 4:3 LCDs (1997? 9? Only 9/11, so I may have been seeing them late / out of context).
First 16:9 was probably 2006...got the first ever MacBook Pro as my graduation gift
It informed some conception I had of the iPad as a platonic ideal (first 4:3 monitor in years)
Re: BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
For every unit of height, there is 1.5 units of width. A traditional monitor is 16:9: that means for every unit of height, there is 1.77 units of height. It sounds like a small difference, but it means a ~15% increase in height. ex. my Visual Studio Code would show 70 lines of code instead of 60. This is an especially good tradeoff for code, because we tradtional line wrap at ~80 characters, which leaves large swaths…
Maybe I’m old, but traditionally monitors where 4:3 until mid to late 2000s when they shifted to 16:10 then 16:9.
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