Before buying this, you need to wait until a professional with a colorimeter and a lagmeter evaluates this monitor if you remotely care about color accuracy or gaming. Resolution isn't the only consideration when buying a new monitor.
Lots of hackers only care about having enough pixels to legibly represent characters in their tiny coding font.
Sure it is! Reading on a monitor is pure torture ever since I bought a Retina MBP. If this is anywhere close to being affordable (realistically: no) I'd buy it for that reason alone.
> Sure it is!
So you'd be fine with a 3840x2160 monitor that has a 5Hz refresh rate? Or one with a 500ms lag time? Or one that only displayed in grayscale, or in 8-bit color?
Resolution is perhaps the most important consideration, but by no means the only one.
In this new high-res world, virtually all desktop monitors are just broken. Ugh, I am typing these very words right now on a 30" Dell 3008FWP, and I want to gouge out my eyes...
Incidentally, my review of my wife's Seiki: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/seiki-4k
4K at 24" is really interesting, however. Not necessarily because I want to use a small monitor again, but rather because it's a sign that we are slowly inching toward high-DPI large form-factor displays. And I've been waiting for that to happen for a decade.
Next would be extending that pixel density to 30" (~6K) and larger (~8K). Then I will celebrate a bit.
The win with a ~200dpi 24" 4k will be OS X-style Retina upscaling, not simply screen real estate.
(2) Being too large is relative, my 30" 2560x1600 quickly became normal sized. For the additional pixels the additional inches of a 39" seems about right.
(iii) HDMI at 30Hz is just fine for anything but gaming. I used to have an IBM T221 that also ran at 30Hz and it was no problem at all for text and video. Some people expect there will be mouse lag, there wasn't.
2) 39" is not way too large. I want 50" on my desktop.
iii) Yeah, HDMI 1.4 is limiting, but 30Hz makes it still usable for non-gaming. DisplayPort? I guess I won't balk at it, but just give me HDMI 2.
I am critical of the monitor for other reasons: a) it doesn't power up on DPMI on and has a splash screen, 2) it has a semi-glossy screen and professional monitors should be matte, and iii) it's HDMI 1.4.
This isn't about real estate; it is easy to buy a big monitor, but about pixel density.
Additionally, you can take that extra size and just sit a little bit further away from it.
I want to buy a couple of monitors and mount them. But there's just one small thing stopping me. I don't know if it's just me, but something feels wrong about rotating a monitor with such a prominent logo.
If I was a screen manufacturer I would have a speaker bar on the bottom that has the logo and a few easy brightness controls on it - total Fisher Price usability.
I would then add in a feature for the pros - have it so the speaker/controls bar can be folded up under the screen.
In that way people that like their bling logos could have the logo on view, those that just want a panel can have no distractions.
If engineered nicely you could have USB and video inputs on the drop-down bar made accessible from the front.
At most they could make the logo easily removable, too me that would be a fair compromise.
My coworker got the new Dell XPS 15, which has a QHD+ 3200x1800 screen. Just a heads up to coders, unless you plan to hunch your back or get new glasses, very few of you will enjoy the screen as much as you think you would.
The only major culprit so far has been Dropbox, which is infuriatingly frustrating to use at HiDPI. So bad it makes me want to move everything to SkyDrive or Google Drive.
Support on Windows isn't perfect, but most programs handle it well by now.
I code all day in Sublime on a 2560x1440 13" laptop at 1.5x scaling (Asus UX301LA-DH71T).
We're almost back to 10 years ago, yay.
For the majority of games 4K won't pose an issue whatsoever with a modern high end video card.
With a Titan card from nVidia, maxing out at 20 FPS on Unigine, it's pretty depressing. We need to see a 2 to 3x fold performance increase in graphics cards for gaming to be realistic on 4k screens.
my how far we've come from the good ol' days of CRT
I have one beside the same size thunderbolt display and I like the monoprice one better (it seems to have a more effective anti-reflective coating).
In comparison, in a 2560x1600 24" monitor you'd get either quite big/ugly double-pixels, or scaling artifacts of non-integer multiple scaling.
I'm after screen real estate and want to see a lot of code at the same time. Does anyone have any thoughts about replacing my 30" work monitor with a 55" TV with a lot more resolution?
It seems like if you do not do gaming, you should be fine.
