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One Month with the Best Monitor in the World: The New Dell 40" 5K120 HDR U4025QW
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- čas přidán 26. 02. 2024
- Dave spends a month with the brand new Dell 5K120 HDR monitor. For my book on life on the Spectrum: amzn.to/49sCbbJ
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0:00: 💻 Review of a high-quality 40-inch curved 5K120 HDR monitor by Dell, emphasizing the speaker's expertise and independence.
3:20: ⚙️ Opportunistic acquisition of a malfunctioning monitor leads to a troubleshooting challenge.
6:00: 💻 High-resolution Dell monitor offers immersive gaming experience but excels in productivity tasks.
9:00: 💻 Versatile monitor with multiple inputs, including USB-C for laptop display and charging, and unique iPad connectivity.
12:17: ⚡️ Impressions of using the Dell 40" 5K monitor for a month, including performance and connectivity features.
15:29: ⚡️ Cutting-edge color accuracy, lightning-fast response time, and innovative Thunderbolt connectivity.
18:30: ⚙️ High-performance monitor with advanced features like variable refresh rate and dynamic refresh rate.
People who obsess over monitor brightness are just nit picking.
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😂 nice
Aayyy! We're nitpicky but rightfully so! 😂 A lot of ultrawides lack adequate brightness so if you work next to a bright window, the screen can look dim. As an interface designer, accurate color and brightness is crucial because my whites look more like light gray... And think about how much whites and grays are our any app or website. It's a big issue if I can't tell them apart. 💀
Plus, I'm paying for these big windows for a reason. If I have to close my blinds and work in a dark room just to work effectively, it defeats the purpose. I might as well just live in a cave lol
@@katwdesigns your problem!
@@katwdesigns I always look dim. I blame my multiple LG monitors.
Oh and Dave, nice video editing and attention to detail - I appreciate paying attention to giving enough time for viewers to actually be able to read the hard coded text without having to rewind and pause the video, yet not having it on screen for too long where it becomes annoying. Keep up the good work.
that blend from the video recorded off of the monitor to the source video was just perfect :P
And having that all be true while watching at 2x is perfection
The NECs were sweet. I remember as a teen saving up from my summer jobs to buy a P750 and it trounced everything my friends had. NEC customer service was awesome as well. One time I had a later model exchanged for bad geometry even the service menu couldn't fix and they literally sent a courier (from Germany to The Netherlands, mind you) to pick it up and deliver a new one the next day, no questions asked. Their digital CRT projectors were superb as well, I continued using my XG-110LC well into the 2000s. Being loyal to the brand I also tried their first LCD monitors but they were pretty bland and I sadly moved on.
I still have a NEC 20" WGX2 lying around in my basement, which was a pretty good 16:10 IPS lcd monitor. But it was hard to get at the time (in the Netherlands) and relatively expensive.
Nec Monitors were quite good as long as they did not break down. Their printers were terrible and their support was lies and non existent. I managed a large IBM PC reseller service section in Sydney Australia in the mid to late 1980s and some NEC products were part of the sales offering. We had broken NEC equipment on every self in the building, all under warranty waiting parts. Nearly all printers and nearly all with the same fault. Broken paper feed knobs. Could we get spares. No. They were always "on the way" and "being produced now" as NEC Japan had not made any as spare parts. We stopped selling them. Nec was supposedly a very profitable going ahead company, yes, because it had no post sale support and warranty costs. But NEC disappeared from the market sometime after. This was not limited to NEC several Japanese companies had no post sales support. Unlike the US and European manufactures who had recommended lists of spares that should be carried depending on sales volumes and market penetration.
The monitor that I really wanted back in early 1994 was the Sony 17" trinitron. Unfortunately my parents were with me at the store. Dad freaked out that I was going to spend $1,200 (or so) on a new 17" monitor. I ended up leaving the Fry's with a NEC 4FGe 15" monitor. It was adequate. But certainly not worth saving that $500 delta.
The 4FGE claimed to be 15", but it was really more like 13.7" as I recall.
I had a NEC 3D early on and then got a deal on a new NEC 6FG. That was a 150lb monitor.
I had Mitsubishi 750SB. No LCD can offer picture quality any close. But it was only 17"... So it had to go in april 2009, when was replaced by 1080p Samsung P2370. Since 2016 it's 4K LG 27".
the camera cut to the monitor with you still talking was a nice touch
2:07 "I was part of the NT GUI team that was responsible for adding multiple monitor support"
Dude, are there any of the good features in Windows that you're _not_ responsible for?! It seems if you pick any of the things that Windows has nailed from a useability perspective, it's got davepl's name all over it!
I gotta multimonitor support on windows is something that drives me crazy to this day. Which monitor number gets assigned to which monitor seems to be a nondeterministic mess.
Welcome to the club :) I have U4021QW for about a year now and LOVE it. Best investment and no back problems from twisting my body for looking on multiple monitors.
I swear he said 'parsec'. I started chuckling and was totally entertained. Well done Dave!
Got to keep the display chromulent.
Niche monitor geek jokes.
He had Trekkie shock from the massive pixel count.
He DID say it! I thought so, too, but now I'm sure!!
"The holy grail" ? I remember when the "pizza box" Sun workstations came with 20" black and white CRTs. That was the holy grail back then. 1 MB of RAM and a 100 MB SCSI hard drive ! That was heaven. Everything has been gravy since then.
Dam, I can remember humping one of those around to give demonstrations to customers. We had padded bags for all the individual components, but the monitor was a two-man lift.
@@davidclift5989 Yeah Sun was all proud of how small their computer was and then there was the huge monitor that went with it. It was very good for its time though. It gave the user enough screen real estate to view the analog clock beside a code window. LOL. Way nicer than a 13 or 15" CRT.
The "gravy" 👍seems to improve with every dip into the pot.
I had a couple of those NEC CRT's back when I worked for the oil company. They lent me one for home that they never asked for back and I used for a while after they were merged I was surplused. I am still using my Dell Ultrasharp from 2008 though not as my primary monitor it has been an incredible work horse and well worth what was a premium at the time but it wasn't curved and now I don't think I could go back to a flat monitor for my primary
I went to dual 40" HDTV's in about 2006 when TV's were finally suitable to use as a monitor. I still use 2 40" screens as monitors as well as a 23" touch screen. Love your videos and thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!
On the Mac, in HiDPI resolutions, you're actually driving the monitor at 2x the resolution you select. So 2560x1440 is actually driven at 5k; 3840x2160 at 8k, etc. If you use SwitchResX you can see the difference between 3840x2160 1:1 and 3840x2160 HiDPI mode (8k). Since there's no anti-aliasing anymore in MacOS, it makes a big difference.
I was running dual monitors in a DOS environment for debugging with Borland C++ and also with Clipper 5.x in the early 1990's. It was possible to have a VGA monochrome card and an ATI VGA Wonder in the same machine as they used separate memory addresses. If "memory" serves me you could run the monochrome VGA card at either B000 or B800. This configuration allowed you to have the app you were debugging on the color screen and the debugger running on the monochrome. Or you could do it the other way around and have the debugger on the color monitor and the application running on the monochrome. It was a much better environment for debugging a Small Grroup Insurance Proposal System with many complexities of different rules by state which drove product availability and rating. There was a presentation layer, a product availability module, and a rating engine that was used both for quoting new business and also used renewal rate calculations.
Yes, you remember correctly!
I was running both a monochrome and color display, both in graphics mode, so I could more quickly make sure my (custom!) graphics code worked on both.
It was painful to give up the monochrome display, but I eventually did to support 800x600 VGA, which required the full 64k address space (both 0xB0000 and 0xB8000).
Well, actually, I temporarily gave it up so I could double-buffer my graphics…
For me, the most impressive thing about W95 was its ability to _virtualize_ my double-buffered VGA code in a 640x350 window on a 1024x768 desktop, with the CPU utilization at less than 30% on a 33 MHz 486. (!!!)
Of course, it sucked so much in so many other ways, I’ve been a Linux user since ‘96, but hey, I give credit where it’s due.
@@altosack what distro do you prefer for your desktop PC?
Full stack DOS application sounds like a tech stack 1 level deep :-D
@@andynn6691 It was a Insurance quoting system written in Clipper 5.x ( a compiled version of dBase) There were modules for product availability and a rating engine. The front end was Clipper 5.x with console/io functions that we wrote in C. We also used a CAS 2.0 fax library so that our agents could fax quotes directly to clients. We were using Blinker for compiling and linking. The data was stored in dBase .dbf files using the foxpro .cdx indexes as they performed better. The software was distributed to insurance agents around the country on 3½ and 5¼ disks that we created on our own disk duplication machines and mailed out. Not bad for the early 1990's 🙂
Same here on and 286 with a VGA card and old monochrome card, does anyone remember control keys to switch back and forth between monitors, it’s not important but it just bothers me I can’t remember it.
OMG Dave you just made me flashback to the 90s...I had the same NEC Multisync display. I even got to take it home, to power my home PC.
As to two of those monitors I know that trading floors will use them, but not side by side. They will be stacked on top of the other.
Love all your gear in the background. You are making me want to pull out my original Apple I that is signed by Jobs and Woz!
There is a software called Synergy that will let you mouse between 2 computers. Mac and Pc.
I also work on Linix , but steal your speed a bit
Microsoft has Mouse Without borders, works the same, only windows though
that's not the solution to the problem though. the question is to swap the screen input.
Synergy is for continuous experience for two different systems with single mouse/keyboard and clipboard sharing. Bought out by Logitech iirc. People say it works, but haven't tried it. So it may be the one for the OP to try out.
There's also lots of various software for one-system multimon setups. Display Fusion, Actual multiple monitors, etc. the latter having lots of options including which window opens where, grid setups, hotkeys, etc.
I can imagine two of those dell monsters one-above-the-other :)
@@GottZuseful if you have one monitor per machine but only want one kbd/mouse.
Samsung released a dual 4k ultrawide that I really want. I love my 32:9 for everything. Can't beat an OLED, but I am with you on PPD. I have 20:15 vision and feel that true seemless PD requires zero visible aliasing at standard viewing distance.
I have the older brother of this monitor (the non-120 Hz 40 inch 5k one). It's pretty nice as well. It's absolutely enormous.
I keep waiting too, or this DELL, Samsung Qled gen 2 Odyssey ?
love everything about it. The 50/50 split, the docking station, the sharpness and colours. what's not to love?;)
I got a gen 2 odyssey ark in early december and can say its a pretty serious screen, i dont edit videos so cant comment on color accuracy but it is massive and really immersive, tons of features i wont utilize but the multi screen is sweet@@lucasrem
I will pretend I never watched this video and I know nothing about the new perfect Dell monitor that I’m drooling over.
Love the history and review of this, I equally am super excited about this release! I also just bought and read your book and it was profoundly helpful in understanding certain parts of myself, for which I thank you greatly. ♥
My favorite ever monitor was the Sun branded 17" Sony Trinitron. I hung on to that for many years!
I had 2 Sony Trinitron's that I also held onto for a long time, loved those things and the only reason I don't still have them is they were too big/heavy for me to bring when I moved states
When did you finally part ways with and why?
Part of me still misses CRTs.
The Trinitrons were great, but once I noticed the two horizontal lines (from the damper wires), I could never "not see them", and it drove me crazy. I had to replace them.
I’ve still got my Sun Trinitron. The 1152 x 900 resolution was a bit odd, but it was a fabulous picture for its day. Also that funky D shell size B connector with the coaxial ports and 13 pins or whatever it was had to be the strangest video interface cable o the planet. It was kind of cool that Sun used Apple ADB for the mouse and keyboard cables.
broken kit was a valuable commodity in the 90’s for me because we had a way of getting it swapped for brand new kit - the same piece of broken kit may go through the system more than once each time providing a new bit of kit
I bought a car from a friend for £500 back in 2001. When he dropped it off he told me there was a surprise in the boot. Turned out to be an IBM P76 24 inch monitor. It was an absolute beast of a monitor (I had to buy a new computer desk to support it) and would do 1600x1200 at 75Hz, could support up to 120Hz at lower resolutions, had BNC inputs as well as VGA and supported driving the beam directly to do pin-sharp vector graphics CAD style. All my friends were stuck at 1024x768 30Hz so everyone wanted to use my computer when we had LAN games.
The best feature: a degauss button that made a loud twang when you pressed it and made the screen wobble for a few seconds.
I ran that monitor for nearly 10 years as it was head and shoulders above any flat screen you could get at the time and eventually had to replace it with a Dell Ultrasharp U2311 after I dropped the P76 whilst cleaning and the case shattered and one of the circuit boards cracked. 😭
I had a magazine clipout of this monitor (Hitachi superscan 21") on my cubicle for over a year before I could finally afford to buy a used one for $1400 with shipping (early 1998). Lasted me well over 10 years. The degauss button - it had it too!
Back in the days as a Tech support I used to come across employees using their tube monitor which was capable of around 75 hz. Problem was it was set to 30ish hz... They didn't notice the flickering. I was wondering how many headaches they had each days. So I quickly fixed that display setting. They never complained about the horrible flickering.. Just amazed me as I could spot wrong display settings from a mile away.
This new monitor your are test driving is just incredibly awesome.. I would love to get my hands on it.. But for you to take advantage of it I guess I would also need to get an RTX 4090.. that is looking at a total of € 4500,= at local prices here (NL)..... Guess I'll have to wait and keep using my Dell curved S3220DGF which is pretty good..
I had an ingenious Frankenbuild in 1987: A MacPlus, modded with an SE motherboard, an internal SCSI harddisk and a PC PSU and a fan, partly hiding behind an E-Machines "The Big Picture", a 1024 x 768 17" display with a slow phosphor, that had an asymmetric back so that the Mac just showed enough so you could access the Floppy drive. Word 4 was king for years on the Mac. An amazing step up from WordPerfect 5.1. Sadly no longer have it :-( Around 2001, I upgraded my Apple 13" Trinitron (gorgeous) to a Sun 17 inch LCD that lasted for many years. That was a rock solid display.
13:30 As the owner of a Samsung Odyssey G9 OLED 49" 32:9 widescreen, I can relate to the feeling. The embedded software on this thing is terrible! Way too complex when all you want to do is switch inputs or maybe go to split view mode. And as soon as you unplug a device, it forgets all the settings and you have to reset everything! On the other hand, the display itself is beyond words, truly amazing. So it's sorta worth it!
I love your channel, feels like watching my ideal future self talk about tech. Thanks Dave!
So awesome man! Great show! Thank you!
Lovely review. Does the M2 support the full 120Hz 5k2k over Thunderbolt? I have not been able to confirm this anywhere.
I've had this monitor for 2 weeks. I work in Logic Pro 80% of the time. It's a great upgrade from my 1440 LG 34". I'm able to use it at it's native 5120x2160. Sharp, perfect size for music production.Highly recommend it!
I'm running 3x 40" ultrawide LG monitors off a Mac Studio. They are the 40WP95CP-W so only 5K72. Having 10 feet worth of diagonal monitor is something you get to live with easily. I could never go back.
I'm a mere mortal with vertically stacked 21:9 3440x1440 monitors, but I agree - ultrawide monitors are my only solution to both gaming & productivity. The only reason I would use a 16:9 monitor these days would be if I were a streamer with a dedicated vertical chat/stream monitor on the side.
72 hertz !!!
just a TV !
My neck would hurt unless that whole 10 feet was probably 10 feet away lol. I use a Samsung 55" QLED for a monitor and that's hard to be closer than 3-4 feet...
@@lucasrem It's a Mac, I'm not gaming on it.
@@smiththers2 if your neck hurts if you regularly use it, that's a health issue.
My eyes are 35 inches from the centre of all 3 screens. I use the very outside edges of the outside monitors for things I don't use regularly like CCTV monitors and stock readouts.
Whatever I'm doing like editing photos or video will be in the centre monitor. The inside edge of the outside monitors will be open folders of things I need and whatever I have playing on CZcams.
Thanks for the tip! I just ordered one based on your review.
Hope you enjoy it!
I have 2x Dell 27" 2K monitors, giving me a 5120x1440 desktop. Combined with a 4 port dual 4K KVM serving 4 PCs, this gives me a comparable desktop at about half the price.
This might be my new favorite channel and I barley understand your ramblings of relics from yesterday year but damn is it fascinating to learn. Thanks Dave!
I too have a Dell 38" with a Macbook and love it, excellent review this will be my next screen, thanks Dave.
I ordered one this week for Music Production. Wanted something big but not too big, that could take thunderbolt for display with my mac studio and my dell xps laptop, that had good image quality and a higher than 60hz refresh rate. My main need was being able to have my arrange window and mix window and track window all displayed when i need them while having enough space to not feel cluttered.
I ordered mine 1 week ago. I'm glade to here from you, that I seem to picked the right monitor. Thanks for making such videos.
It should have had 1600 height, this is basically a downgrade to the 38" ultradwides from a few years ago for anyone who cares about screen estate.
How is 2160p in height a downgrade?
O.L.E.D. or G.T.F.O.
I've always been a fan of the Apple/Dell 16 by 10 monitors -- the Apple 30'' Cinema Display is still one of my favorite monitors -- especially the later upgraded ones. The fact that Dell still makes a variant of these just goes to show how good these monitors were for the time. These monitors are approaching 20 years old now.
I’m running 3 Dell monitors from 2008,still going strong.
Just a small correction: when the term "Retina Display" was introduced by Apple for the iPhone 4, Steve Jobs said it needed to be about 300 dpi at the distance a phone is typically held.
The lowest ppi they have called Retina is 218.
I rocked a SGI 21" with BNC connectors for years. It was the holy grail around the turn of the century. My last CRT.
This is what I'm getting - HP E45c G5 44.5-inch super ultrawide.
I'll also add a couple of smaller screens at the sides, but haven't decided what models they'll be.
Upgrading from a 49" 4K TV that I've been using for almost 5 years.
I do not play games on any of my computers, just work stuff.
Yep, just bought a LG 35 4K inch curved display to go with my Win 11 desktop. I enjoy being able to split the screen with two or more programs displayed at once.
4:49 Actually typing “Sony Trinitron” as a defiant response to the NEC, right as you disclose what you bought for your home office after researching the NEC. lol
Well that did it. I'm going to order one of these when I move into my new office later this year. But the throwback to the Sony Trinitron was a treat, miss that thing to this day :)
As a Dell Ultrasharp user, I can confirm that they are great... when work pay for them lol. The KVM features are the bomb and the PBP modes are the killer feature for the ultrawides, splitting the screen up for multiple inputs, giving you "multiple monitors" again when you need it.
I started with dual monitors on Windows 98. It was nightmare with poor support and drivers. I clearly remember getting it to work once with my initial setup (one supported Matrox card and one not quite supported card driving a LCD-screen). Worked OK though as soon as I got two supported cards.
Since then I've always had multi monitors getting bigger and better over time. My preference is not a curved screen, but one main screen in the middle and smaller screens on the sides. Suits my needs better than one huge screen. I find it very convenient to place utilities windows on one (or two) of the smaller screens while the main screen is used for whatever I'm working on.
Just replaced my last really old 24" Dell and currently I've a four screens setup with a 30" as the main display, two cheap Lenovo 2560x1440 screens on one side and a LG Dual Up (2560x2880) on the other. My next upgrade will most likely be the 30" main screen which is getting old and could benefit from a resolution upgrade.
Oh Dave, you just took me back through 30 years of my computing career . The NEC Multisync, the Trinitron, the huge amount of space they took up in the corner of my desk
What exactly is great about it? It has some nice features but everything it does is beaten by another monitor. Very often several of its features at once. What's the price?
The best review of 4025QW I've found till now
Great insight, Dave! So glad I finally found an old I.T. kindered spirit who speaks our world so well. Your videos are amazing! Keep them coming!
This is one of few monitor hubs that provide the power required for my Dell Precision laptop since I need 130W and this can output 140 W. It has meant I could rip out so much extra equipment and do everything from this one display. I do wish I had a 1 ms or 2ms response time, but I don’t really use this for gaming so it works out okay.
Apple doesn't have a specific DPI that they mention for retina displays, but the lowest they use seems to be around 220 or so for desktop/laptop (it is higher for tablets and phones). They did mention 300 DPI for phones at one point, which is close to 120 dots/cm, which might be where you got your number. Windows used to expect 100 DPI displays, and so most monitors today with close to 100 DPI don't usually need any pixel scaling. Note that Apple originally tried to only do 200% display scaling originally, resulting in some of the earliest 5k monitors since they were doubling the 2.5k resolution that was the limit of the DVI connector (and are the typical resolution of a 27" monitor today).
I'm probably just a few months behind your upgrades. I remember a dual monitor card called the Matrox 400 that I used for many years. Dual 21" NEC Multisync setup was awesome but you needed a solid desk with room behind it.
Hopefully we get an OLED version, LG will drop one next
The dell 3223q IMO is the best value monitor. Perfect size, fast, 4k, low price. Has some HDR issues, but is fine for casual gaming. OLED monitors would be considered the best if you are seeking graphic/refresh fidelity. HDMI 2.1 support for future proofing.
I love the NEC and Sony CRT monitors back in the 90s.
That very NEC monitor is the reason I have a bad back! It weighed a ton and lifting it badly was a good way to get yourself a bad back as I proved.
The old days of hitting the degaus button and the potential flicker if your lighting was not optimal.
I always made a point of getting my users the best monitors I could buy because people are looking at for 8+ hours a day.
The first 5 minutes of this video might be the greatest monitor review ever.
most macheads I know including myself use dell displays when we needed more than one input that the Mac displays offered. it was like that back in the day. the LG offerings are cool, but the ultrasharps never cause me any issues.
I have the U3818DW since 2017 and love the KVM. I added an usb hub to the back and hooked up my DAC/Headphone Amp, Mouse, Keyboard, Microphone and Webcam to it. The usb-c connection connects it to my work laptop and DP to my private PC
Seems we've had very much the same journey on displays! I started my snobbery with the Wyse VT-420 displays connected to VAX-VMS that provided 48 lines of text rather than the pedestrian 24 lines. I had the same series of NECs, Trinitrons, and Viewsonics (multiple sizes) before going LCD. Dell UltraSharp has always been my go-to as their professional screens, particularly the factory color calibrated ones were workhorses! I also went to the 34-inch Dell curved. Recently, I've switched to the Samsung NEO G9 49" for my personal workstation, relegating the Dell 34" to my WFH desk, but this new Dell looks amazing!
Thanks for your video and consistently engaging content! For those of use who've been around since Windows and before, I can relate to so many of your topics. Also, was thrilled to see you were a Corvette guy as well!
Great informative history lesson. Re-assures me I'm that alone being that old. Actual monitor in context starts at 11:45
I have a 23 inch Acer 1080p monitor with the 1060 video card on my 12 yr old desktop. I wanted better graphics so l replaced the 1060 6 GB with a 6650xt 8 GB video and brought a LG 27 inch 1440p monitor. I didn't know that LG has an program to split screens up to 8 displays. I should have brought a 32 inch to use four screens for gaming. I love my LG monitor. What happened to Acer? They used to built good monitors.
I loved the Amiga. So far ahead of its time. I couldn't believe how far behind MS was, even in the 90s. I guess they needed Dave to get things up to speed, and they did. I also love Visual C++ / Visual Studio... and Pinball and of course, the original Task Manager.
I am using three computer (two laptops & desktop) 4x34" curved monitors and I use one mouse and keyboard using all six screens via Sharemouse a software KVM via my local network. Awesome tool the works on Mac and PC.
This likes exactly what I have been looking for. However, the only thing I wanted it does not have is OLED
Like you, I'm a bit of a snob for monitors too. I started with a Sony CPD-1304 CRT monitor for many years. I loved the vertically flat screen, and excellent blacks compared to the lesser monitors my friends were using. I moved to Samsung 17" 191T afterwards, and finally a Dell 30" capable of 2560x1600. Now I'm thinking of either this 40" Dell or maybe the 40" LG.
First time viewer to the channel really enjoy this format of product review with a bit of story telling here and there
I actually was one of the very first people to get a 4K display at my office and I actually did come up with a project to work on that required it.
Here's the rub though it was a 30 Hertz monitor . I swear sometimes I think we went backwards from CRTs to LCDs
Just purchased this monitor 🤦🏻♂️ I hope I don’t regret it!
I was an early multiple monitor adopter as well. I used two networked Win2k PCs (each with its own monitor) along with a KVM switch (minus the V). Now-a-days, my main Linux box has two big monitors and between VNC and Virtual computers, I can control any computer in the house.
My original background was in design (now in IT), and I am extremely sensitive and picky with monitors. I really appreciate all the beautifully saturated colors using this video, as it looked great on my 32 inch 4K LG.
A few years ago I stopped using computer monitors. I switched to 48" OLED TVs. I never look back, 4K 120hz HDR, Screens are further from my eyes, and I have more free desk space. The colors, refresh rate, and sound are perfect. The price is lower by factor than a good monitor. The only disadvantages I can think of are no desktop background image, autohide taskbar, and Windows dark theme is necessary to protect them from burn-in. Also, I wrote some code to control inputs, sleep, wakeup, pixel recovery, and disabling Google Movies. Network control API is limited on smart TVs, so I ended up using ADB to control them. That was fun and joy for my masochistic side.
Love your channel. We are about the same age and have similar experiences, albeit I was not a Microsoft wiz kid. Watching this made me remember my Sony Trinitron 21 monitor I had that like you was my last CRT monitor. The size was huge but the weight is what killed me. I am a large strong man and hauling that thing around was a huge PIA. I also remember the tow feint lines that all Sony Trinitron CRT's had. I think they were for a filter or something but they were there when the monitor was mostly all white or a very light color. So fun going down memory lane with you.
Interesting what you said about seeing a high-res screen at IBM and caring about pixel pitch.
This Dell 5K120 HDR U4025QW: 138 pixels per inch
Apple Pro Display XDR: 218 ppi
Back in 2003 the IBM T220 was 204 ppi. And $8,400.
Nostalgia! My Commodore Plus4 still works. I loved that computer. The cartridges, the cassette drive, the built-in spreadsheet and word processor, two games on cassette. So fun.
I remember going down to the local computer store (remember those) and plunking down $1050 for a NEC Multisync 17". This was back in the day when a dollar was still worth 50 cents. I never regretted the purchase, and there was no complaint from my wife once she saw the screen. The monitor you're reviewing is likely cheaper than the NEC after accounting for inflation. I wish I needed it.
Hey Dave, you can switch monitor inputs through Dell Display Manger if you install it on your PC and Mac. You'll have to install the software on both. The mac software has a smaller supported model list but yours will be in there.
I have been running a U3419W for about two years now. It's hard to go back to dual 27" monitors at the office. Though I do have a 27" in portrait at home now I use mainly when working at the house. Thanks for the great content, Dave!
I feel it. Long history with multiple displays, 20", 17", and 14" CRTs in the 90's. Part of the niche audience with 2 Macs, 1 PC and 5 displays wrapped around me, preferring one keyboard and mouse. I've upgraded 2 displays to higher refresh this past year but can't give up my 23" Apple Display from 2005.
Ive been using a Dell D3221QS, 32" 60hz curved 4k for 3 years or so now. I got it for work and after seeing it in person my boss got one for himself as well. I absolutely love this display for productivity work so i can just imagine how much better their new model is. 120hz is the only thing i wish this had. It sits above a trio of 360hz alienware monitors, and by comparison it feels "laggy" i guess is the best way to describe it
I'd go a bit further on PPI, I have a 4K 28" and can still perceive the pixels at 157PPI even though I need new glasses, but a 4K 24" at 185PPI does appear almost seamless. The modern Macbook Pro at 254PPI is god-like, apart from the slow pixel response. I REALLY want a monitor close to that.
Using such high PPI requires using scaling in Windows or you end up with vision issues like me. Scaling is super problematic so I stick to 93 PPI for work and I love it. Maybe Next one will be around 140 if those exist with 50% upscale when the apps and OS will have a better support for this functionality.
Love your channel, but man, 11 minutes into this 20 minutes video and finally we start with the DELL.
Had to set the stage so you could appreciate the Dell!
Great review. I have a Dell HD curved 38” monitor about 5 years old. I may upgrade to the new 40”. Hopefully it will be better than the old one
Dell makes a nice monitor. I’ve had a U2420 for over a decade now. No problems and still going strong.
never got into ultrawide or curved but loving my current 3x 4k 43" 16x9's 60/60/144 hz setup. and yes after being spoiled on these i cant work on anything less. had to have work get me something i could be comfortable on.
I've never seen a 43' monitor. I think I'd get tired walking back and forth to see everything.😉
@@JohnPMiller lol yeah i meant inch. i can never remember which symbol to use. ' seems more appropriate since it is less than '' . but 43" is not that far off now that we got 100+ inch and laser projectors. pretty sure 8k or 16 k would work well with a 516 inch screen.
Nice to see you had the U3818DW. My current monitor for two years now, using the KVM to connect to my 2012 12-Core Mac Pro 5,1, 2018 i7 Mac mini and my Lenovo work Laptop (connected via the HDMI through a Dell Dock). It it is hard for me to go into the office and use a 24" display ever again. I can do everything on this display. Thinking I will get that 40" to pair with an Mac Studio next year when I finally replace my 2018 mac mini
I worked at Computerland in the early 80's and absolutely loved my Sony Trinitron. Then the Sony Rep showed me the two horizontal grey lines at 1/3 and 2/3rds of the screen which were caused by something called a shadow mask.
It wasn't noticeable if you were running a white background on windows but any other background colour displayed them, and I could never unsee them.
Damn OCD.
My final CRT was a "22 inch" Hitachi, it wasn't flat but it was capable of crazy-high refresh rates and weird high resolutions meant for radiology way beyond what my video card could handle with 3D acceleration. I did a 3-year lease-to-own deal on it so it cost like CDN$3600, and it was totally worth it.
Dave, I'm swithering between this and the LG 5K2K 40" Ultrawide. Would you recommend that versus this?
Which one you have picked up and how it is going?
Apple retina lowend threshold is 300ppi per 10-12" of viewing distance. An iphone has a PPI of 400+. iPads are around 260 ppi. Their Studio display is about 220 ppi.
I have 2x 32inch displays. They give me a width of 1,450mm (57inches). They sit further away from me than usual, and I get a huge amount of my desk back. The largest wide screen is very much smaller than these 2 monitors together.
Im not a huge stickler about the colors or the brightness, but I will shell out the big bucks to ensure that I don't see any blur (my current monitor actually costs more than my pc just for that)
I think it should be possible to use Logi MX Master 3 and have the functionality you mentioned: "move the mouse to the corner of the monitor and simply switch the display to another source." This Logi functionality is called Logitech Flow, and it even works on devices that are using separate monitors.
Nec Multisync 2 was a solid display
I commented that before you got to it. Sweet.
Also viewsonic p815 was solid.
New to the channel. Impressed to the brim with the quality of information and clarity of delivery. Also come from Amiga background and got very nostalgic seeing the old computers in the background. Obviously subscribed and left a like! looking through your archive now and exited about the future videos. Thank you!
I used our 2020 WFH stipend to purchase a standing desk and my first 32” Ultra-Wide IPS curved display, I’ll never go back to dual heads. And I’m one that adopted dual very early, 1993-ish on my Sun workstation, a Sparc 10 iirc with dual frame-buffers. Had two of those Sun monitors that took a forklift to get them on the desk. People though I was nuts, “why do you need two?”. Fast forward a decade and everyone wanted two. I’m over it, UW IPS any day.
The IBM 3290 Displays were pretty nice for their day. Worked on those while working in a NOC and having side by side sessions or quad sessions was ahead of its time
I'm not yet convinced that one wide-ish monitor is superior to dual 27"' 4K. Dual 32" is too big, requiring too much neck movement, but 27" seems like the sweet spot for eyeballs. I also often want to put a different computer on each monitor. One 50", that can show 3 different 4k sources side by side would be ideal. I have a 32" and 27" at the moment. The 32" is nice for watching Dave's Garage, seems about the right size for his head, but I can't handle the asymmetry, duals need to be identical.
IMO, 32” monitors are the new 27” monitor. I would like to see Apple standardize on 32” 16:9, 120Hz, 4K displays. My LG 32” 4K is great. But I’m a but envious of ultra wide curved displays. I’ll check it out. The color looked good too.