I've now had this monitor for four days. I will update this review periodically as I own it longer.
I've had no sleeping/resuming issues at all as others have reported. I am using Windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 and the monitor 100% works flawlessly with both.
I give this monitor 5 stars because it accomplishes what it set out to do perfectly. But buyer beware, you need to know what you're getting with this beast. The 1080 vertical resolution doesn't bother me at all. I can now comfortably put three windows side by side to do my work and that alone is worth the price of admission.
Gaming wise this thing is fantastic. I have paired it with a Radeon Vega 64 and since it only has half the number of pixels a 4k monitor has, all games run beautifully. Freesync works from 48hz up to 144hz. I am finding most games can handle 3840x1080 rather well, and really recent games handle it perfectly. The view is so immersive, it's just fantastic.
This monitor has a DPI of about 80. If you're like me and have been using high DPI monitors for the past few years, this is a pretty, er, striking regression. Yes, you can really see pixels easily on this thing. No, fonts don't look that great (fonts look a little better in Ubuntu than Windows, but regardless nowhere near the beauty a high DPI monitor would provide). To me this is the only real compromise you need to make with this monitor. The gaming and productivity gains I get far outweigh this setback for me.
This monitor has no speakers at all.
I have it mounted on my monitor arm with no problems. The monitor weighs 33lbs which is the upper limit on my arm. Getting it mounted was quite the chore and nearly led to my wife divorcing me, but we did it.
UPDATE 1:
I've now been using this monitor for work quite a bit and I have to say I love it. I can fit everything I need comfortably onto the screen. No more switching desktops. It's been a great productivity and "staying in the zone" boost.
UPDATE 2:
I've now had this monitor for 2 months and you will have to claw it out of my cold dead hands. I. Love. This. Thing. My only complaint is how it changes sources, it's a bit tedious. My productivity, focus and happiness while working has increased so much with this monitor, and gaming is fantastic. I use Linux with a tiling window manager. To be honest when I'm in Windows or OSX then this monitor isn't quite as godly. The automatic tiling really helps squeeze out the full worth of this giant beast.
I've had zero issues with it. No matter what machine, OS or whatever, it has worked 100% perfectly.
I've added an up close photo of text in OSX. Windows looks very similar. This monitor does not render text well due to its low DPI.
UPDATE 3:
This will be my last update I think, I'm at about 9 months of owning it.
The arm I am using is the Loctek D7L.
Through some sheer luck I managed to get this monitor at work too. Now my life is pretty much complete.
I now use Windows 10 quite a bit at home and at work, and to manage the massive space I have found Divvy works pretty well.
Absolutely zero regrets buying this, it's simply stellar.
| Standing screen display size | 49 Inches |
|---|---|
| Max Screen Resolution | 3840 X 1080 Pixels |
