Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/monitors-monitor-accessories

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piinbinary2• 6 months ago

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

__mharrison__• 6 months ago

I have a 42" 4k TV that I use as a monitor (in gaming mode). Not sure I would want anything shorter than that. (Of course, I have an eye issue, so the side-to-side is even more pronounced for me.

rahimnathwani• 6 months ago

I used to use a 40" 4k TV.

Now I use a 38" ultrawide, which is roughly the same width (in pixels and in inches) but doesn't require my head to move up/down as much.

I could imagine using a 52" ultrawide if it were placed further away from me (i.e. deeper desk). The extra pixels would make it effectively a retina display.

Marsymars4• 6 months ago

52" at that aspect ratio isn't just wide, it's also >50% taller than a 34" ultrawide.

It's akin to a 55" TV - basically the same width, but only 70% of the height.

simooooo• 6 months ago

I have a 57” ultra wide and it absolutely requires you to look around

reppap• 6 months ago

I think you would have to sit further back, almost tv watching distance.

gofreddygo• 6 months ago

And that would strain your eyes or force a bigger font. At that point, you'd be wondering, like me, on why I spent $$ to buy a bigger screen in the first place.

I got an open box lenovo 24 inch QHD monitor for years and it just works solid across windows, mac and various docking stations. I could imagine upgrading to a 27 or 30 inch but beyond that is just too much IMO.

Maybe taller, more square could be of more use than wider.

bityard• 6 months ago

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.

hanspeter• 6 months ago

Their point may be about viewing distance.

If the edges of the screen are further from your eyes than the center, the content and text doesn't appear at the same size. If you wear glasses, the edges might even fall out of focus unless you physically move closer.

piinbinary2• 6 months ago

I like having three columns of code open in my editor, but the left edge of the leftmost column (since code is left-justified) gets pretty far away from my face. Or I need stronger glasses, one of the two.

KaiserPro• 6 months ago

I think it depends on vision. I have a single 27" 4k monitor with vscode set to about 80% zoom.

But I'm getting older, so I might have to make it a big bigger soon.

saltcured• 6 months ago

Since well before the pandemic, I've have dual 28" 4K screens on my desk. When ordering them, I liked the fact that they had the same pixel pitch as my 14" 2K laptop screen. One monitor was like a borderless 2x2 grid of those laptop screens.

I found myself repositioning things so that one is in front of the keyboard as a primary screen and the other is further off to the side as a secondary dumping ground. I found myself neglecting the second display most of the time so it was just a blank background. Eventually, I noticed I wasn't even using the entire primary screen. I favored a sector of it and pushed some windows off to the edges.

Ironically, with work from home, I've started roaming around the house with the laptop instead of staying at my desk. So I'm mostly back to working in a 14" screen with virtual desktops, like I was 20 years ago. I am glad that laptops are starting to have 16:10 again after the long drought of HDTV-derived screens.

ardit33• 6 months ago

I have a 39" (almost 40") LG ultrawide, and it is the perfect size. Can't see how a larger monitor would fit a normal desk...

BUT.... this is perfect for folks that want to use one monitor for both work, and as/for entertainment /just normal tv watching in a living room.

stalfosknight• 6 months ago

Abysmally low pixel density. :(

BlaDeKke• 6 months ago

No scaling required? Great!

tonyedgecombe2• 6 months ago

Spot the Linux user ;)

Marsymars4• 6 months ago

Eh, it's about the same as a 4K display at 33".

masklinn8• 6 months ago

Which is a poor pixel density.

bsimpson• 6 months ago

4k@27" is borderline too coarse. 5k@27" is preferred.

plorkyeran2• 6 months ago

4k at 33" is awful too. 5k text is visibly better than 4k at 27".

throw0101d• 6 months ago

The pixels per inch (ppi) density is 129.

Some other specs: refresh rate, 120Hz; brightness, 400 cd/m².

tshaddox• 6 months ago

That's decent pixel density considering the size of the monitor. A 32" 4K monitor has slightly higher PPI at around 138.

jmarcher2• 6 months ago

I have a 40in 5k (32in 4k, but wider). IMHO, 138ppi is the bare minimum, but it really depends on a person's eyesight and preferences.

I would love a large-ish ultra-wide with > 160ppi. One day, maybe, that being said, by that time those things will exist and be reasonably priced, my eyes might not be able to appreciate the difference.

tonyedgecombe2• 6 months ago

It’s a fraction of what most Apple customers are used to.

2OEH8eoCRo03• 6 months ago

Nice. I have the predecessor 40" U4025QW and it's outstanding.

bhhaskin• 6 months ago

I second the U4025QW. It's fantastic and the built in KVM is great.

dkobia• 6 months ago

At 52" I now believe that there is a limit to the size of a monitor. This might have crossed it.

bigstrat2003• 6 months ago

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.

mixmastamyk• 6 months ago

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.

joombaga• 6 months ago

Yep. I have a MacBook air 13 and a Framework, and miss the extra vertical space when I'm on the MacBook.

Flockster• 6 months ago

Yes, I will never buy 16:9 again. On laptops 16:10 is already quite often and sometimes even 3:2 (Framework, Surfacebook).

For my desktop I am looking forward to getting a 3:2 monitor like the Benq RD280U

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html

lejalv• 6 months ago

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...).

samdixon• 6 months ago

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

smilebot• 6 months ago

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

usaphp• 6 months ago

jpalomaki• 6 months ago

Some people are complaining the matte finish on the LG ruins part of the experience.

trailbits• 6 months ago

The LG only has 60Hz refresh - this Dell has 120Hz and so seems to actually take advantage of the extra thunderbolt bandwidth.

madeofpalk2• 6 months ago

For context - this 51" monitor has 22% less pixels than the 32" Apple Pro Display XDR.

adamnemecek• 6 months ago

But those are retina pixels right? Like what is the max resolution of that display?

PunchyHamster• 6 months ago

good deal considering it's much smaller and twice the price

wmf4• 6 months ago

Not really. The Dell is 6144x2560 @ 1x while the Apple is effectively 3008x1692. The Dell can fit much more content on the screen.

kccqzy5• 6 months ago

If you just want 32 inches @ 6K there are cheaper options around, such as the ASUS ProArt PA32QCV: https://www.asus.com/us/displays-desktops/monitors/proart/pr... ASUS is a more well known brand. It doesn’t imitate the Apple aesthetic.

(It does seem like the resolution differs: 6016×3384 vs 6144×3456.)

selectodude• 6 months ago

That has a lower resolution though. Not by much but it’s a weird panel.

bragh2• 6 months ago

In EU, have not seen PA32QCV ever in stock anywhere.

npunt• 6 months ago

I recently got this after getting three copies of the LG 32U990A, which had serious light banding and uniformity issues. Loving the Asus.

a012• 6 months ago

I bought this right after it’s available, I like the screen but the Asus OSD is barely tolerable and I have to grow my patience because of it

M4R5H4LL3• 6 months ago

I have the Apple 6K 32” Pro Display XDR and a Kuycon 5K 27”. Both are great. Apple was $6,500 and the Chinese version was $400 on EBay plus the $100 stand. Kuycon has more types of input, and a remote. Frame and display quality are on par for a dev.

tw04• 6 months ago

$400 where? The cheapest I've seen the kuycon 5k is $800 before shipping, and the QA has been hit and miss with users having to pay to ship it back.

It's not to say it's a bad option, but it's definitely not $400 out the door.

zipy1244• 6 months ago

They aren't even close in comparison? Like 600 nits brightness vs 1000 (1600 peak) for one. Contrast ratios are very very different. It only supports HDR600. They are very different displays in person. Perhaps at low brightness on text they are similar, but outside of that they really aren't very similar.

throw453278• 6 months ago

Reviews are saying the Asus has an aggressively matte display, causing the text to look a little blurry.

spullara• 6 months ago

I wish they had an ultra wide with the higher resolution.

Lammy• 6 months ago

16:9 60Hz kinda sucks though :/

Yes I realize the Pro Display XDR has those same specs. 16:10 or 3:2 120Hz or 144Hz would be ideal to me.

brailsafe3• 6 months ago

I've got an eye on the CES Samsung Odyssey offerings at 32" 6k 165hz. I'd prefer 16:10 and currently run two 16:10 30" displays, but nobody making them.

tortilla• 6 months ago

I posted about the new Kuycon 28” 3:2 aspect 4.5k monitor I discovered recently today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46647190

master_crab• 6 months ago

Is this a grey box replica of the Mac 32in? Because I’d interested if it is.

swiftcoder5• 6 months ago

This has pixels the size of my hand

This is 128 ppi, which would be considered "retina" at a viewing distance of 70cm (27in).

Are you really sitting 2 feet from a 52" monitor? I'd have to cutout a curve in the front of my desk to sit that close

buckle8017• 6 months ago

Curves in the front of desks is a thing.

https://www.upliftdesk.com/curved-corner-standing-desk/

ramraj07• 6 months ago

I literally have this monitor already and these pixels are humongous. Even at 3 feet away. Also the viewing angle degradation is too much, so much so that it irritates to look at the edge of the screen from the center. A very poor monitor indeed.

dwb2• 6 months ago

This is 128 ppi, which would be considered "retina“

If by “retina” we mean “pleasantly sharp”, not by me. I’m never buying less than the 218 ppi of my Apple Studio Display unless I absolutely have to. I’m totally spoiled.

dzink• 6 months ago

Those look like the monitors used on the F1 movie, which is strange, considering it was an Apple production and they maybe should have used apple monitors for product placement . I guess it is a testimony about Kuycon from Apple.

wtallis• 6 months ago

You should look at pictures of Apple's Pro Display XDR. The Kuycon monitor is an obvious rip-off of that in terms of styling, especially the ventilation on the back.

toephu22• 6 months ago

clickclack?? sounds like a shady referral link. will not click.

raphlinus• 6 months ago

On the official Kuycon site, it says "Since 2023, Kuycon has partnered exclusively with ClickClack.io to bring its innovative line of monitors to customers outside of China[...]". I'm seriously considering getting one of these.

jitl• 6 months ago

i bought mine from there

m4632• 6 months ago

pixels the size of my hand

Sometimes this is refreshing. (display joke there, heh)

this is a big monitor.

Many UIs don't scale particularly well with very high resolution. So you get UI elements with super-fine text or icons.

Some linux console fonts are almost unreadable with just 4k, though recent releases seem to be addressing this.

also old games.

for comparison, I think this is basically the dell 43" monitor with pixels on each side (16:9 -> 21:9)

the height of the panel is similar, the width is higher (plus curvature)

Dylan16807• 6 months ago

There's an awkward zone where scaling doesn't work well. But if you have a screen that can do nice high levels of detail, then you can run older UIs at exactly 2x and they will look just as good as they ever did. An Apple Pro display is a good fit here, offering 218 pixels per inch compared to a "traditional" 96.

malfist• 6 months ago

You must have really tiny hands considering the pixels are smaller that .2mm by .2mm

seanmcdirmid• 6 months ago

LG has a 6K 32 inch also, although a few hundred dollars more.

stein1946• 6 months ago

First time I hear about this Kuycon, the pricing seems phenomenal and the quality as well. I will probably buy one by the end of the week.

It's odd that we don't get to see a lot of high quality OEM monitors.

thatwasunusual• 6 months ago

the pricing seems phenomenal

I'm in Norway, and I wonder if I see different prices than people from elsewhere in the world? Here it says $1.7K, and I can get the LG UltraFine 6K 32" for $2K, with the benefit of being bought from a Norwegian retailer (think guarantees and shopping security).

To be clear; I have never tried either of these monitors, so I can't tell if either is any good. :D

kombine• 6 months ago

Is there a significant benefit for programming in going from 4K to 6K on a 32" display? I'm currently on 27" 1440p and looking for more screen estate for my neovim setup.

Tepix2• 6 months ago

If you make the fonts smaller, can you no longer read them because they are too small? Then you need a bigger monitor, not a higher resolution.

If you can no longer read them because they are too pixelated, you need a higher screen resolution.

stephenr2• 6 months ago

On macOS: crisper text.

roblh• 6 months ago

Is this some kind of OEM Apple display? Or did they just put all that effort into machine out those spheres in the back of it so it looks like one?

sulam• 6 months ago

I have a smaller version of this and it's pretty good as a display.

I'm somewhat disappointed with it as a hub/KVM. It's better than having to swap cables, but just barely. It can't handle any high bandwidth USB devices I've tried (Focusrite Scarlett 2i2, a DSLR via capture card DSLR and a Logitech webcam). The downstream USB strangely isn't even sending down a keyboard and mouse to a PC, I ended up having to get separate dedicated KVM for those. It worked fine with a Thunderbolt to my Macs, but that's not surprising. I'm not sure how it would work with two Macs (one would have to be HDMI or DisplayPort and use that downstream USB port). I could try that but it's not my use case.

ninkendo2• 6 months ago

Yeah… Not sure of your model (I have the U4025QW), but mine is so close to perfect as a KVM between a Mac and 2 PC’s, if only the KVM had one more USB output port.

It takes 3 video inputs, but only 1 dedicated USB output. But oh, one of the video inputs is really Thunderbolt, so you get USB over the same cable and it works… but only if your machine supports this (for many laptops this is fine.)

But that’s 2 machines max in the KVM, while the monitor has 3 selectable inputs…

It would have been nicer if they could’ve added one more USB output, so you could have KVM match the display input for 3 machines with a single toggle.

(I have a Mac, a work desktop, and a gaming desktop, and I can toggle between the Mac (thunderbolt) and one of the PC’s, and the kvm input will follow the display’s. But I have to pick which PC I want to plug the downstream USB cable into… so I bought a little $15 USB A/B switch to help. So Mac keyboard always works, but when switching between gaming PC (hdmi) and work PC (DP) I just have to remember to toggle the A/B switch along with it to make the keyboard go to the right host.)

apetrov• 6 months ago

Interestingly it has Thunderbolt 4 (40Gb), 6K typically saturates 30-31Gb, which leaves less 10Gb/s which isn't a lot especially assuming 2.5Gb network. Looks like a perfect case for TB5 and given its price.

gouthamve2• 6 months ago

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.

cosmic_cheese3• 6 months ago

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.

kccqzy5• 6 months ago

Same! My employer offered a choice of 32-inch and 40-inch monitors. I “upgraded” from 32 to 40 but I regretted it. I just don’t make use of the extra horizontal space effectively.

peppersghost93• 6 months ago

I'm still rocking a couple of 30 inch dell 2560x1600 monitors. They're about the perfect size and not dealing with scaling in Linux is nice. I'd pay a ton of money for a modern equivalent.

kcrwfrd_• 6 months ago

I run a 42” 4k at 1:1 pixel ratio and I agree. It’s a little too big, but it does nice double duty for gaming and watching tv.

5120x3200 in 30” would be awesome.

switchbak3• 6 months ago

That was my issue with multiple monitors years ago - I'd be cranking my neck over too often (looking at logs, etc). I vastly prefer an ultrawide where I can put logs / monitors on the side flexibly.

I have a 34 inch now, and feel like I could use more space - but it's nice to know there's an upper bound. Do you feel like there's still room to go beyond 40, or is that the sweet spot?

gouthamve2• 6 months ago

I honestly think 40 is the sweet spot.

estearum• 6 months ago

3x27” high-PPI displays in portrait orientation is the winner and no one does it

The center display is always actually centered. The short edge of a high-PPI 27” screen is wide enough for actual normal width browser or IDE usage, but now you get much more vertical real estate on that window.

Not nearly as much neck movement as an ultra wide and since the entire array is pretty square, the neck movement is way more balanced.

ProZsolt• 6 months ago

I went from 34"(3440x1440) which felt a little bit small to 38"(3840x1600) and it is nearly perfect. I can have my main window in the middle and 2 or 4 smaller windows (logs, chat, youtube, etc) on the side.

The only thing I want now is double pixel density.

Mixtape• 6 months ago

Seconding this. I have one for my work desk, where (surprisingly enough) it made a lot of sense. The DPI isn't as big of an issue as people make it out to be if your workflow doesn't depend on high density, but the curvature definitely could benefit from being a bit tighter. You need a fairly deep desk or a keyboard tray if you don't want to be turning your head a bunch.

That being said, having this in combination with PowerToys FancyZones has been fantastic. At any given time, I'm usually running 1-4 main working windows plus Signal, Outlook, and an RSS reader. This gives me more than enough real estate to keep them all available at a moment's notice. I have roughly 40% of the screen real estate dedicated to Signal, Outlook, and my RSS client, with the interior 60% being hotkey-mapped to divide in different proportions. Compared to my old setup (one ultrawide plus two verticals) it's been awesome.

2OEH8eoCRo03• 6 months ago

I sometimes think that my 40" is too much because the extra space just ends up hosting distracting junk like Slack.

I also have a mild take that large screens make screen real estate cheap so less thought goes into user interface design. There's plenty of room just stick the widget anywhere!

cosmic_cheese3• 6 months ago

It'd be pretty interesting to compare how much the amount of information one can cram onto their ~27" screen has changed between 2005 and 2025, with the comparison points between between a Mac running OS X 10.6 and a Mac running macOS 26, which I think is a particularly salient and apples-to-apples comparison since Apple was selling 30" 2560x1600 displays back then, which are close cousins to modern 27" 2560x1440 displays.

My gut feeling is that the difference would be around 30-40%. Information density of the UI of OS X 10.6 and contemporary software was much higher than today's tabletized "bouncy castle" style UI.

fidotron• 6 months ago

This is why multiple monitors win: put the distractions on a whole other screen.

maxglute• 6 months ago

Maybe it's a head turner vs eye mover thing. It's a lot less fatiguing moving eyes, which might not be option for glass wearers. I sit 2 feet away from my 50 inch OLED and moving eyes is much less work than windows management. Otherwise it is very workflow dependant, i.e. working on visuals or schematic diagrams.

fridder• 6 months ago

hmm, good to know. I have an lg 40in 5k2k that I rather like but this tempts me

swiftcoder5• 6 months ago

When I owned a 40" monitor, I had to get a deeper desk and sit pretty far from it. Even then, I couldn't game on it, because games shove the HUD and minimal into the corners, and they were too far to the side to keep an eye on.

Can't picture a 52" being usable as a PC monitor, really.

bilsbie2• 6 months ago

Let me ask you ..Would it work better with a standing desk? It seems like moving around would feel more natural standing up.

qwertox2• 6 months ago

I have one and while it makes you generally more movable, you shouldn't stand all the time; it's just as unhealthy as permanent sitting.

qwertox2• 6 months ago

You'll get used to it. I have 3 24 inch monitors side by side. Center one is usually the editor, right one documentation or more editors, left one browsers with info.

rconti• 6 months ago

Yeah, I'm on a Lenovo 5k2k 40" UW and it's never occurred to me to want something wider. Though I will admit I definitely noticed the loss of total real estate vs my old 3x 27" setup.

goshx• 6 months ago

I've been using a 49" monitor for almost four years. I have the center window taking half of the screen, and on the sides I have my email, messaging clients and other things I like to monitor from time to time.

Kinda like this: [ | | ]

I am on mac and I use an app called Magnet to manage the windows. I will only change this setup for a larger monitor.

alchemist1e92• 6 months ago

it's almost like it's flat

It is almost. 4200R means the circular radius is 4.2 meters for the curve. That’s too big a radius for using as a desk monitor that large imho.

esafak• 6 months ago

I never got into the ultra wide thing. Where the 8K monitors at?? We've been stuck on 4K for ten years!

hhh• 6 months ago

they’ve been around for a few years, as well as 5K and 6K

masklinn8• 6 months ago

Sadly they're not super common which makes them expensive, and I don't think I've seen any that wasn't 16:9. The world has decided to go with refresh rates rather than resolution.

seiferteric• 6 months ago

I have a Samsung neo g9 57" which is like 1/2 an 8k monitor (or 2 4k monitors side-by-side) which is sweet since I use picture-by-picture mode to have my work computer on one side and my personal computer on the other side.

ghshephard2• 6 months ago

I have the SAMSUNG 49" Odyssey Neo G9 G95NA - but despite spending literally dozens of hours - I was never able to get text to work clearly on it - either Mac or PC - tried both the DisplayPort, HDMI - tried all the (many) HDMI cables I had at home, and a couple expensive Monoprice cables, firmware updates, monitor resets, every setting I could figure - no luck. Text is just ... fuzzy in a way that it isn't with any other monitor I've ever owned - kind of a deal breaker when I spend all day in tmux.

phaser• 6 months ago

Maybe this is the living room dumb-TV that I was waiting for

nerdsniper4• 6 months ago

It has pretty poor HDR performance compared to similarly priced TVs.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/u3225qe

api• 6 months ago

Still would love a true AMOLED monitor that's decently large. Doesn't need to be this big. One with perfect contrast ratio.

ajross• 6 months ago

Looks nice enough. But seems pretty steep. The 42" TV I bought five years ago for $260 does basically the same thing. Slightly more vertical space (albeit at a lower DPI) and somewhat less horizontal. But it still supports four 80-column text windows without a sweat.

Late stage FAANGery is watching 20-somethings try to find ridiculous junk to spend money on.

Hikikomori• 6 months ago

My old crt can show letters and numbers.

LegitShady• 6 months ago

dont believe them - this only has 1 thunderbolt port, not 52

MarlonPro• 6 months ago

Expansive and expensive at the same time!

_zoltan_• 6 months ago

another meh display from dell.

if you truly want a great display for productivity, I can't recommend the Samsung 57 enough. 240hz, 2x4k in one panel. it's great.

mrandish• 6 months ago

I've found ideal monitor size and resolution depends greatly on viewing distance and relative position. I use a 38" ultra-wide and it's almost too wide - but I have it 'floating' on an adjustable monitor arm so it's only about 24" from my eyes and a bit higher than most monitor stands would allow. The monitor arm is key because once I put a full ergo split keyboard at a comfortable arm-rest distance, a normal monitor stand sitting on the desk would force the monitor to be too far back.

For the full breadth of a 52" monitor to be comfortably viewable for detail work, I'd have to be farther back enough that the difference between 4K and 6K wouldn't be meaningful. It's kind of like how 8k resolution can provide meaningful value in a head-mounted display two inches from your eyeballs, but 8k on a 65" living room TV seven feet away from your couch viewing position is pointless because even those with 20/10 vision can't resolve the additional detail at that distance.

For detail work I find my best ergo seating position is up close with my legs tucked well-under the desk and my stomach almost touching the edge of the curved desk inset. This allows my forearms to be supported comfortably on the desk. I also have my desk surface a little lower than most and my Aeron chair a little higher, putting the top of my legs almost touching the underside of the desktop.

swframe2• 6 months ago

I use 2 32" 4K which cost about $800 for both monitors. The small gap between the monitors is annoying but I can't really justify paying $2k more. Also there is a samsung dual 4k that is about the same price as the dell.

Moving my head to see everything doesn't bother me. I also have a setup with 3 32" 4k which I find a little too wide but in that setup 1 monitor connects to different computer.

t1234s• 6 months ago

Is 130PPI useable at a 1:1 pixel ratio or would this monitor need to be run at a 2:1 ratio

NoSalt• 6 months ago

"Unlock unparalleled productivity"

LOL

bluedino• 6 months ago

I wonder if this would work for me. I sit 36" from 43" 4K TV, I run it scaled at 125%

I think I'm already at the edge of how big of a monitor I could use without spinning my head all around. But the curvedness of it might make up for it.

bhouston• 6 months ago

Very large monitors are amazing. I’ve been rocking a single OLED 48” monitor for my MacBook Air M3. It is killer and I can not go back to smaller screen sizes. I just wish it was 6K or 8K instead of my current 4K. And if I do upgrade it will be to a 52/55”.

ChrisMarshallNY• 6 months ago

I use a 49-inch LG ultrawide. 5120 X 1440, at 60Hz. Had it for a number of years. I think it was about $1,100, when I got it.

It seemed too big, at first, and I split it, but got used to it at full width.

I don't really care that much about pixel density or super-high framerate. I'm old, and don't really game. For software development, it's great.

toephu22• 6 months ago

How far are you sitting from that monitor then?

I'm only like 2 feet from my monitor so it doesn't make sense to go any bigger than 30"

quotemstr4• 6 months ago

Yes, but there's got to be some point at which it makes more sense to switch to a VR headset.

owenversteeg• 6 months ago

$2900 seems pretty reasonable to me considering the size. Works out to $416/sqft, which is much cheaper than Bay Area real estate.

I never understood the draw of these huge monitors until I had to do CAD for work and now I understand. Giant monitor + SpaceMouse is a gamechanger. My current monitor is 36” and I could easily use more width.

burnt-resistor• 6 months ago

So I use a 49" Dell U4919DW (5120 x 1440 @ 60Hz) with an Anker 777 powered Thunderbolt hub to support a MBP, but also use it directly with a lab Windows box. I can't see spending $3k on a monitor because this one was $1100 + $157.29 tax and shipping in 2022. I threw on a 4 port USB-C hub that clamps on the front bezel, so it has reachable ports.

I guess this almost replaces the Anker, but lacks Ethernet.

flyinglizard2• 6 months ago

I have the 40" (5K) and it's perfect. Replaced a 27-32-27 setup (the 27"s being portraits, the 32" landscape). For my coding and office work, absolutely no reason to go wider. Highly recommended.

Note the 40", and probably this one too. support MST which makes the display appear as two monitors to the OS and is great in terms of window management without going too fancy with custom software.

joshstrange3• 6 months ago

Interesting, I'm on 3x27" 2K monitor (same setup as you, portrait, landscape, portrait) and while it works very well for me, I'd like to replace it with just 1 screen (or 3x 4-5K monitors but that is less interesting to me). I already have custom window management software that I use so it wouldn't be hard to switch to sub-dividing 1 monitor to get a similar experience (I think).

Maybe I should look into the 40" 5K monitors, thanks!

flyinglizard2• 6 months ago

Losing the bezel is great, and the Dell 4025qw that I have has also an IPS Black panel which is a vast improvement over what I had before - Dell U27-something (4K IPS), 3219Q (4K IPS). And it's 120hz. I really enjoy it.

randerson• 6 months ago

Likewise. I've had the 40" version for about a year. Higher DPI than the 52". It replaced 2 x 27" monitors and I'm glad I made the switch. I generally have 2 apps running side-by-side just like before, but with the ability to go full wide-screen for movies or gaming.

This monitor really does everything. It's crisp enough to read text on all day, unlike many gaming monitors. But the 120Hz is decent for gaming whereas most 5K+ monitors are only 60hz.

JakeStone• 6 months ago

I've got big monitors, that I hook up to my work laptop and my own laptop. I make it work with a kvm hub. It's really sweet, for my use.

I keep a browser, an IDE, and a terminal pretty much side by side on the bottom one. I keep slack, email, and a clock on the top monitor. I also place pullout tabs from my IDEs on the top one.

Thing is, no matter the cost range, I generally have to replace the KVM hub about once a year. I've just come to accept that as a part replacement cost. <shrug> This thing has its own KVM hub internally. Maybe I'm just rough on my KVM, but if someone puts significant wear and tear on this monitor, I'd imagine that part would wear out, which seems like a potential money sink if you have to keep calling the warranty folks.

For me, it's too much of a risk, but YMMV.

bdavbdav• 6 months ago

If it’s at all representative, I had to replace 2 of the dell ultra sharp super ultra wides due to failing USB C hub / PD parts. I gave up at that point.

jval43• 6 months ago

My 49 inch Dell ultrawide is failing too. One USB port is already dead, and the other ports have just now started to develop intermittent issues as well.

GardenLetter272• 6 months ago

On the other hand, I've had one for 5 years and it's still going strong.

Will definitely buy again.

zenethian• 6 months ago

I really want more monitors that are taller and have 3:2 aspect ratio.

rsync• 6 months ago

Eizo makes a square 1920x1920 monitor:

https://www.eizo.com/products/flexscan/ev2730q/

... available on Amazon last time I checked ... they also make a square 2048x2048 monitor for ATC:

https://www.eizoglobal.com/products/atc/sq2826/

... although I think it costs $5k or so ...

zuhsetaqi• 6 months ago

I use the BenQ RD280U. It’s as wide as a 27” 16:9 and as tall as an 32” 16:9. I really like the aspect ratio and I’m using two of them.

nerdsniper4• 6 months ago

RTings has a very in-depth review[0] on this product line, ranking it tied for #6 for "best office monitor".

0: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/dell/u3225qe

drob518• 6 months ago

That’s the 32 inch, not the 52 inch.

nerdsniper4• 6 months ago

Yes, thank you for pointing this out - I should have said it explicitly. It's why I said "product line" rather than "product". I thought the 32" vs 52" distinction would be clear for anyone who clicked through.

I also didn't realize that at the Dell store webpage, clicking the "32 inch" option actually slightly changed the product line - from U##26 to U##25 (as the 52" option is the only model associated with 2026), and generally I only consider UltraSharp's of different sizes to be "approximately equivalent in quality" if they share the same model year - and nothing yet shares the 2026 model year with this 52" option.

zipy1244• 6 months ago

Their best office monitor is actually another Ultrasharp....

nerdsniper4• 6 months ago

Interesting! If you sort their monitor reviews[0] page by "Office Rating" the top monitor is the ASUS ProArt Display PA27JCV with a score of 9.0

But their "The 5 Best Work Monitors of 2026"[1] lists a Dell Ultrasharp in the #1 rank and the Asus ProArt does not appear in the recommendations at all. The info cards imply that the recommendation rankings might result from a weighted blend of "Office Rating", "Text Clarity" and "SDR Brightness". However, the ProArt outscores the Ultrasharp in both "Office Rating" and "SDR Brightness" while exactly matching the Ultrasharp's score in "Text Clarity".

So the "The 5 Best Work Monitors of 2026" appears to be a somewhat subjective list, rather than purely a result of objective measurements.

0: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews

1: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/by-usage/busines...

bilsbie2• 6 months ago

Would the latest Mac minis work with this?

wmf4• 6 months ago

Yes.

nennes• 6 months ago

Size and pixel density concerns aside, one downside of larger monitors is the power draw. This burns 64W, which adds £3 to your monthly electricity bill if used for 8hrs every weekday. It's not a terrible amount, but I can run 3 micro pc servers 24/7 for that cost.

quotemstr4• 6 months ago

Imagine living in a so-called "civilization" in which your productivity is limited not by time or tools but by how much it costs to buy photons to shoot into your eyeballs.

elevation2• 6 months ago

I run a pair of the 43" model listed on the page (U4323QE). Coming from a desk full of 24" 1080P screens which I used with no scaling, the selling point for me was that the DPI was similar (~114, no scaling needed) while the total real estate was larger.

This 6K panel seems like it would scratch a similar itch.

r0b05• 6 months ago

Is the PPI not too small with the 43"?

I have a 4k 27" which has nice PPI and I was considering this 43" as a replacement but the pixels looked quite prominent in youtube reviews.

elevation2• 6 months ago

The PPI is small, but this is what I wanted because it better supports native resolutions with no scaling on legacy apps I run.

To preserve the PPI you're used to, you'd want 8K resolution as you approach 50".

madmod9• 6 months ago

I have 3 27" 5k monitors in portrait and a 32" 4k horizontal above those. It is all mounted with vesa cheeseplates to manfrotto magic arms on t slot aluminum attached to a C stand with manfrotto super clamps. I also have two genelec studio monitors which sound amazing.

All of that cost less than this one monitor.

novaleaf• 6 months ago

what's the make/model for the monitors? my setup is getting long in the tooth.

madmod9• 6 months ago

Two PA27JCV and one LG ultrasharp (it was cheap because it was broken and I repaired it) and the 4k monitor is a samsung which I cant recommend. (Open box was cheap though)

byproxy2• 6 months ago

What Genelecs are you using??

EnPissant3• 6 months ago

Not OP, but I have 2 8020D + a subwoofer.

If I had to do it all over again I would have 2 8030C and no subwoofer.

madmod9• 6 months ago

They are the tiny 8010s. I don't produce much with this setup so accurate near field monitoring was all that I needed. I love how crystal clear the high end is with these. I bought them used and they were pretty beat up. I take them traveling so as an anti theft measure I painted them neon green and covered them in stickers to make them look cheap. They are mounted on magic arms to the aluminum extrusion. I also have some random Klipsch subwoofer. I send them a balanced output from a yamaha mixer at 192khz.

maest• 6 months ago

All the brand naming makes this read like something from American Psycho.

cheschire• 6 months ago

Or Fight Club

otterley• 6 months ago

In case you don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

nine_k• 6 months ago

The brand names are there, I assume, to show that it's not some cheapskate setup jerry-rigged from salvaged parts. Because even then it's still less expensive that the giant Dell monitor.

I frankly don't understand the point of such monitors. If they are placed reasonably near, they don't fit human FOV well, and the periphery is seen distorted. If they are far enough away, the pixel pitch goes well past the angular resolution of the eye.

pluralmonad• 6 months ago

It does read exactly like Bateman in my head, but didn't pin it down until you helped. Still, that Dell monitor is pretty crazy itself.

madmod9• 6 months ago

Force of habit. The film industry values brand recognition of gear highly because reliability is important. There are a lot of cheaper equivalent parts which could be assumed which wouldnt accurately illustrate my point. I spent around $450 just on the hardware to mount the monitors and it is still cheaper than this dell monitor.

lm28469• 6 months ago

Gear fetishism is a serious disease, and the symptoms are obvious

timcobb• 6 months ago

I'm seeing only manfrotto here

lanthade• 6 months ago

Perhaps, but I value this simple explanation of the setup because it serves as a "these parts work well for this purpose" testimony. I'm already familiar with Manfrotto quality but not in this use type. It's nice to have my horizons broadened.

InMice2• 6 months ago

I get bonkers annoyed using just two monitors with macos or windows. multi monitor management... nothing behaves how i want it to, apps never open where they should etc etc. I havent tried it on desktop linux enough to know if it's any better - maybe at least id assume have the most configuration control on linux.

How do you do it? I always give up in frustration. 100% would keep the genelecs :)

ninkendo2• 6 months ago

I can only speak for the Cinnamon desktop environment on Linux Mint, but it’s very simple:

- Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on

- Switching the focused window to the other monitor is Win+Shift+Arrow Keys

So if I clicked to open an app, it’s on the monitor I’m already looking at. If I used a keyboard shortcut, win+shift+arrow is super easy and simple.

The fact that it’s a stupid simple rule means I can get way better at just doing things by muscle memory… I don’t have to worry about being outsmarted by the window manager.

Frotag• 6 months ago

On KDE and things like opening app on active monitor / desktop work fine. Only complaint is that on older versions, the taskbar on secondary monitors would sometimes disappear.

For reference I have 3 monitors (2x 4k, 1x 1080p) and am currently using Debian / Wayland and Ubuntu / X11.

sourcegrift• 6 months ago

On linux i3 I've bound my workspaces to default to a monitor and my apps to default to a respective workspace. Very very productive

madmod9• 6 months ago

I use AeroSpace on mac os for tiling window management with spaces mapped per monitor so that eg space 1 is my top monitor woth my email and chat and space e is on the left for my obsidian, spaces asdfgh are my center monitor for code and terminals, and spaces zxcvb are the right monitor for browsers. I dont stick to this organization rigidly and when I'm doing odd tasks like cad or developing an app I break the patterns and put things on whatever monitor is convenient. I try to stick to a few common apps in the same spaces however.

pragmatick• 6 months ago

I'm using DisplayFusion on Windows and am very happy with it. Haven't found anything similar on Linux that works as well.

nottorp• 6 months ago

I generally don't close the applications i use on an ongoing basis :)

This way you only have to drag them to the monitor you want them on once on startup. Which on os x at least is not very often.

wincy• 6 months ago

For Mac I spent $0.99 a long time ago and bought Magnet on the App Store which lets me move windows and resize using hotkeys. For windows I aggressively use windows key + left/right to move the windows around, with 4 displays you just have to remember their ordering and eventually it becomes muscle memory to get it to snap where you want it. It mostly moves left to right, in my case.

sergiotapia• 6 months ago

What fixed it for my was switching to Omarchy and using wayland (what it comes with). I don't bother very much with positioning or window resizing anymore. Give it a shot!

deepsun2• 6 months ago

Interesting, manfrotto's website has a cookie notice with two buttons: ALLOW ALL and ALLOW SELECTION.

However, there's no selections -- there's only a description of hundreds of cookies they store (e.g. 73 in Marketing section), but there's nothing to select, it's only text.

buzer• 6 months ago

There seems to be grey deny button at top-right on first view but it disappears if you select the details. You need hide the details first if you want to click it.

whyenot• 6 months ago

I'm not sure what your point is. This monitor is less than 1/2 the price of Apple's Pro Display XDR with nano texture glass.

madmod9• 6 months ago

This monitor is not aimed at the same market segment as the pro display xdr which values high brightness, accurate color, and higher than normal contrast for hdr content mastering. In my opinion for productivity there are much cheaper setups which provide more ppi and more pixels per dollar.

FireBeyond2• 6 months ago

Not for nothing but 6K HDR @ 120Hz is likely a large part of the cost of this monitor.

I don't know if I'd put it on my desk, I got somewhat used to my setup - I had 2x4K 27" 144Hz monitors with very thin bezels (LG or Asus?) that I then traded in when I got a ProDisplay XDR. I do wish for higher refresh, and maybe more screen size.

turtlebits• 6 months ago

And you can get at least 10x 24" 1080p monitors for the price of a single 5k monitor.

Being on the leading edge of tech costs money.

That said, your mixmatched PPIs would drive me nuts.

madmod9• 6 months ago

The relative distance of the top 4k monitor actually makes it work pretty well. I use that for chats and email and dashboards that I need to keep an eye on.

sixtram• 6 months ago

could you share an anonymized desk photo?

madmod9• 6 months ago

Sorry I don't have any without work stuff in the image. If I do post it one day I will reply to this.

andrei_says_• 6 months ago

I would love to see a photo of that setup.

perfmode• 6 months ago

Like that? https://gemini.google.com/share/3dbf617a1e07

madmod9• 6 months ago

Haha thats amazingly confusing when you look closely.

I'm using baby pin reciever plates on 4080 extrusion with m6 thumbscrews into drop in t nuts. There is only one c stand. The extrusion is actually two parts in a cross. The speakers are on the horizontal extrusion mounted on magic arms. My momitors are angled slightly upward and the bottom is a few inches lower than standard desk height.

Mistletoe• 6 months ago

Gemini with the Genelecs, nice.

libertine• 6 months ago

I was going to comment about the price, but you kind of wrapped it up.

It's like the most popular form of innovation nowadays is just marginally nicer products with a massive premium on them - and I don't get how this is sustainable. Or maybe there's just way more people with massive amounts of disposable income than I realize...

There's no breakthrough of like "here's an amazing product, and by the way, it's for everyone".

This whole culture of scarcity, scalping, hoarding, FOMO, premium, it's so played out I'm literally done with it. This is paired with terrible customer support that takes customers for granted.

Very few companies seem to value their customers, and don't want to squeeze them. Tech, cars, consoles... You name it.

So this is my current stance: I'm out of the market for the foreseeable future, unless something breaks and I need to replace it. Even the "nice to have" stuff is down to almost zero.

sigy2• 6 months ago

I disagree with this take. Particularly because this isn't just a little more of this or that. It's a well-integrated set of features that should have already been on the market in some form, but wasn't really. And it's also a premium setup in terms of each feature individually. It really does feel like the whole is more than the sum of its parts in practical terms.

I don't feel FOMO. I'm thinking more "why did it take this long?"

michaelmcdonald• 6 months ago

Would love to see a picture of this setup and your thought on the brands / models you have. I’m in the market for new monitors / setup and yours sounds very much like something up my alley.

port112• 6 months ago

I would pay the premium to have just this one monitor, although I find it too large.

And that’s fine for me: that different people want different setups. I’d never want a multi-monitor setup if I can avoid it, where others say it makes them more productive and whatnot.

m4632• 6 months ago

That sounds like an ergonomics nightmare.

You should strive to sit with your head balanced on top of your neck, with your arms relaxed at your side and elbows at 90 degrees. wrist rest. good seating position. no donut cushion. etc

tilting your head back to look at a monitor above or to the side will use muscles to hold your body in place and misalign your spine/etc. leads to fatigue/stress/long-term issues

shell0x2• 6 months ago

1. I don't think I'll ever buy Dell again. My current monitor is a Dell S3221QS 32" screen and it has vertical lines and starts flickering on both the Macbook M1 and the Mac Studio with the M4 Max chip after some time, which is a known issue[0][1]. It also defaults to YPbPr colors rather than RGB/SRGB, so the colors look off. I'm using HDMI to HDMI connectivity currently.

Part of it is also my fault as I thought a monitor would work with any computer.

2. That aside, what are you all using for window management on these large screens? I'm currently using Rectangle on Mac, but I was wondering if there's a better way.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/1221mz2/dell_s3221qs_... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/n8ei34/dell_s3221qs_f...

user68858788• 6 months ago

Spectacle for Mac and power toys for windows.

I’ve been using a single large monitor for a while and it’s been great with window managers. The biggest downside is when playing games full-screen.

AceJohnny2• 6 months ago

Counter-anecdata: I have 2 Dell U2720Q (Ultrasharp 27") bought in 2021 and they've been great.

That said, I've always stuck for Dell's upper-range Ultrasharp (U prefix in models) monitors, being slightly wary of their cheaper series which the S in your S3221QS implies.

antod• 6 months ago

I have a 13yr old 27" Ultrasharp still going well.

+1 to only buy Ultrasharp if buying from Dell. The others can be junk.

funkychicken• 6 months ago

I’ve been a big fan of the big dell curved displays. The U4025QW has been a solid single monitor

wlonkly5• 6 months ago

Yes, the flickering problem is definitely an S-series issue.

SanjayMehta• 6 months ago

One of my Dell's would randomly decide that the mini DP connection has no signal, and rebooting the MacBook Pro was the only way to restore it. HDMI would work just fine.

ghshephard2• 6 months ago

I've gone the other direction - and after having struggled with other various monitors (the worst is easily the SAMSUNG 49" Odyssey Neo G9 G95NA - both cruddy capability (should have noted before buying it has no Power Delivery) as well as easily some of the blurriest text ever) - I've decided I will only ever buy Dell Monitors. Every one I've purchased (5 of them) in the last 15sh years has been a flawless performer - no hardware failures either.

Every monitor on every desk at work (around 3000 desks) is a Dell U3821DW - no broadscale systemic complaints that I've ever heard of.

I'm currently using my 4K 27" Dell P2715Q that I bought for $400 back in December 2017, and I've carried (physically) with me from office to office from Michigan to the Bay Area - thing runs for 10+ hours a day (minus weekend) for 8 years running. Eventually it's going to have to give in- and when it does - definitely going to buy another Dell (probably the U2725QE 27" 4K)

wooptoo• 6 months ago

Yap I can confirm, Dell's P (professional) and U (ultra) lines are excellent and work flawlessly. The S (standard?) line not so much.

seanalltogether• 6 months ago

I'm kinda the same. I have a Dell monitor and a Gigabyte monitor side by side and my mac constantly loses the connection to the gigabyte monitor. At least once per day I have to unplug my video link to the gigabyte monitor to get the mac to rediscover it, this never happens with the dell one.

kstrauser3• 6 months ago

I bought a brand new Dell monitor through Amazon’s Dell Store (i.e. fulfilled by Dell themselves and shipped to me directly from their warehouse). The HDMI port broke a couple months later as it was sitting undisturbed on a desk, which was a common problem mentioned in its reviews. Dell flat out refused to replace it, saying that their database showed a different owner than me. Remember, they themselves shipped it straight to me. Amazon did right and let me return it even though it was already past the return period.

I will never, ever buy Dell hardware again. They’re dead to me. And when the IT department at a previous job reported to me, and a Dell rep cold called me to offer us a business plan, I politely explained why I’d rather gargle broken glass than risk my reputation on a vendor who doesn’t understand what a warranty means. That felt pretty good.

davsti43• 6 months ago

Are you referring to this store - https://www.amazon.com/stores/Dell/page/9B75DD0E-9F42-4B9B-A... ?

neebz• 6 months ago

For window management, Aerospace has been a game changer for me. I could never work with multiple monitors before that.

gnfargbl• 6 months ago

Have you tried disabling GPU temporal dithering via BetterDisplay or StillColor? I had a similar problem with a different brand of monitor, and this has been the only reliable fix.

ysleepy• 6 months ago

This helped with my S2722QC.

Also: https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000331897/apple-m-p...

shell0x2• 6 months ago

Thanks, StillColor seems to do the trick!

port112• 6 months ago

I bought a refurbished P24-something, basically the last 4K monitor I could find that was 24” or smaller — 4k @ 27+ looks bad for me. That Dell has been amazing. Just a counterpoint :)

aljarry• 6 months ago

I had a strange problem with Dell P2720DC (27'' 2560x1440) - the whole outer edge of the screen would flicker if I used dark background with a lot of dim colours (like dark mode in IDE, or default Grafana theme). It wouldn't happen all the time, but it would happen on a weekly basis (I most often seen that on Sunday). I've RMA'd it, got another monitor, which also started showing the same problem. I gave it to someone who doesn't use dark mode - no issues.

So, I'm not getting another Dell until I'd be sure this issue won't happen again :)

wlonkly5• 6 months ago

I have the 27" from that series. In my experience, after I fixed the RGB issue, I also fixed the flickering issue. And to fix the RGB issue, I used BetterDisplay[1], controlled by a Hammerspoon[2] script[3] that calls its CLI on the appropriate display events.

The free version of BetterDisplay is sufficient, I really don't use any of its other features.

The flickering seems to be gamma related, and is triggered by Nightshift or Flux for me.

[1] https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay#readme

[2] https://www.hammerspoon.org/

[3] https://github.com/wlonkly/dotfiles/blob/master/home/.hammer...

lowbloodsugar• 6 months ago

Could almost get 2x Apple Studio Displays for that $. Then you got 10240x2880. The Dell is only 2" taller and yet 320 less vertical pixels.

kgwxd• 6 months ago

is there something special about it to make the front page?

BoingBoomTschak• 6 months ago

Too bad it's not using IPS Black 2 (https://www.lgdisplay.com/eng/product/monitor-display/ips-bl...) like the U3225QE/U2725QE or iiyama's new ProGraphics.

quotemstr4• 6 months ago

I can recommend the 45-inch LG Ultragear too. Nice OLED. 5120x2160 resolution. Perfect curvature for me, coming from a G9.

Just don't be an idiot like I was. I connected my monitor to my dock with both DisplayPort and some random USB-C cable. Worked fine initially. One day, cleaning my office, I swapped out that USB-C cable with a higher-quality one. Took me a bit to realize that the consequent Wayland post-resume resolution flakiness came from a race condition enumerating the real-DP and USB-C-alt-mode "separate" monitors that my machine thought I now had.

It's not often that downgrading a USB cable fixes a problem.

breakds• 6 months ago

Exactly what I had via sunshine and moonlight in my Vision Pro ...

para_parolu• 6 months ago

I have dell with similar resolution and 32 inches. It is a decent matrix to work with code. But increasing diagonal without increasing resolution just makes it expensive tv and not something where you read text

Forgeties79• 6 months ago

I had a Dell thunderbolt hub monitor (not sure if that was the exact name for it but functionally the same thing) in idk 2018? 1440p. Loved it. It played so well with my 2016 MBpro too. Even had HDD’s running through it. It worked fantastically from top to bottom.

For 2 years.

Obviously this is not the same product and it has been a long time. But man I hadn’t thought about that in years and now I’m all bitter about it again ha

teleforce• 6 months ago

It's a shame that this 6K tunderbolt hub monitor does not support the latest thunderbolt 5 standard. Otherwise you can connect and daisy chain two of these 6K displays together.

compounding_it3• 6 months ago

I’ve been using a single 24 inch 1080p benq usb c monitor after realizing 4k 27 inch scaling is just terrible and 5k 27 inch is just too pricey. It’s a budget monitor but it’s surprising what 140$ can get you these days cause the quality of the panel is really good. It supports daisy chaining so I can add another monitor to my m1 air (which I can’t otherwise I think). If it was 4k 24 inch I’d buy two as I find that size kinda perfect.

Personally I’ve found that a single monitor is enough 90% of the time while coding. It’s when I need to do something nitty gritty that I need a second monitor.

That being said working with only a laptop is painful and extremely uncomfortable for the posture. I don’t think I can get anything real done without a monitor keyboard and mouse. Going down to an 11 inch iPad sounds impossible.

swader999• 6 months ago

I always plug in a keyboard and raise the laptop up 3-5 textbooks high. Can't work at a desk and just a laptop, too old for that.

nja• 6 months ago

For some reason nobody makes 2K 24"s anymore -- that was my sweet spot. But now to get the pixel density you have to go way bigger :/ dreading the day the old monitors I have cease working. I like the 24" size but 1080 is just so annoying. I was using 2048x1156 20" monitors back in 2010 and they had better density!

compounding_it3• 6 months ago

we have become used to retina displays these days so 1080p 24 inch looks 'pixelated'. I sit about 18 inches from the monitor and it looks okay. I find this distance and size most comfortable for me. The 27 inch 4k was too big for my setup and the scaled 2560x1440 is something I would not recommend (was warned about it but didn't listen :P).

tra3• 6 months ago

I didn't know you could do multimonitor setup with m1 air. Can you share what your setup is?

compounding_it3• 6 months ago

https://youtu.be/pcz0R6eEWNA?t=345

I think it's called Displaylink. yet to try it with this particular benq but I know it can be done. The total output pixels are limited though so I doubt what the limitation of the Air is. but 2 24 inch 1080p should be doable.

hk1337• 6 months ago

I had the UltraSharp 40” similar to this, I loved it until I went to readjust it, apparently tilted it wrong, and the screen blanked. :(

akulbe• 6 months ago

Am I the only one who thinks 120Hz is still low for a display of that size?

My 38" LG goes up to 144Hz. I would have figured something larger would be at least that much.

slashtom• 6 months ago

I purchased this as soon as it was announced, I was surprised they had it ready to ship on the day of the CES announcement.

I do enjoy it, with Fancyzones, I can set up Unreal Engine Editor, Rider, discord/teams and a small corner window for searching and/or youtube watching on the side. At first I thought the pixel count was going to be too low but from my position it 'feels' retina at 125% windows scaling. Yes you can do the same with multiple monitors but I don't get the fatigue of turning my physical head, it's the perfect size to sit in middle and use your eyes to adjust/focus if that makes sense..

120hz and fast motion helps a lot. DCS World looks amazing on this, it feels like it's your full fov when playing games. Granted this isn't an OLED panel, I wouldn't play anything competitive on here but EU V and/or RTS games are very nice at 6k/52.

This replaced my dual 4K 120hz monitors. Recommend if you're not gaming.

diebillionaires• 6 months ago

I got both of my 4k dell 27" monitors for like $450 each and it's amazing. I would never pay this much. I'd just buy a 48" OLED. But that was too big. This is just silly and overpriced.

cranium• 6 months ago

Looks slick! In the >50" category, I've recently upgraded from the Samsung Odyssey G9 49" (with res 2x1440p) to a Samsung Odyssey G9 57" (2x4K). With a tiling window manager and workspaces it's really a pleasure to use, and contrarily to some beliefs, I do more focused work that way because I don't have to switch workspace to find the information I'm looking for – less risk of distraction.

9021007• 6 months ago

Any display that is <200ppi is garbage and manufacturers should be ashamed of themselves for pricing them above $800.

paranoidrobot• 6 months ago

My desk has 2x 27" and 1x 43" Dell monitors. Unfortunately the new work MacBook only supports two external displays so one of those 27 sits idle.

What used to be nice is now a case of constantly shuffling windows, not made easy by MacOSs janky window handling.

I've been looking for a second 43" to replace the 27"s but the high price and sub-par quality of the 43 is making me wait.

I am also finding it difficult to find monitor arms that will carry such large and heavy screens. The 43 is already at the limit of the one reasonably priced arm I found and a definite struggle to mount.

sabalaba• 6 months ago

Is HN the last refuge of real internet discourse? While some of the replies are very Reddit m-coded, it still feels like real humans. I wonder how long this will last before the agents take over.

casperb• 6 months ago

The scroll hijacking on this page is horrendous. I could almost not close the page anymore on iOS because of everything going on.

whatever1• 6 months ago

I was hoping that 8k tvs at ~50inches would become widely available.

They were high enough density and tall enough for coding applications, but as first versions they had some rough edges (text rendering not great by default).

Instead they just disappeared from the market :(

I think Aliexpress has no brand panels, but at $600 it is a non trivial gamble.

hinkley• 6 months ago

Dell has a shitty habit of down-rating monitor model numbers over time. The very expensive monitor your internet buddy waxed poetic about six months ago is now half the price and also half the monitor. It's not worth the trouble.

GardenLetter272• 6 months ago

I love the Dell Ultrasharp series, interesting they went with Thunderbolt though I had issues with it not working when trying to use another dock with my Thinkpad.

I'd rather buy the USB-C one so I know it will work with the Steam Deck, etc.

EDIT: Oh, only one port is Thunderbolt.

arnejenssen• 6 months ago

Sure it would be cool, but I don't think not having 6k is my limiting factor (I have an ok 4k 42" monitor)

littlecranky67• 6 months ago

Do product companies visit their own websites? You have to click on three (!) overlays/popups if you visit the website - cookie notice, another popup telling me that I am not from the US and can visit their european website, and an AI alert overlay telling me about their new AI features. Only after clicking away all three I can actually see the product content. Madness.

alchemist1e92• 6 months ago

4200R is very gentle curvature. Wouldn’t it have been better to curve more aggressively, like at least 2000R for such a large screen if the purpose is a desk monitor?

pipeline_peak• 6 months ago

I don’t understand the point of these ultra wide monitors.

On windows 11, you can only have 3 verticals columns with a monitor this wide. If I had 3 regular width monitors, I could have 6 columns overall.

I’d also imagine it looks awkward when you have one window in full screen, but I’ve never used one in person.

steveBK123• 6 months ago

I refuse to buy a dell monitor again because I found their quality low and their warranty process onerous. Took hours of my time to get a replacement sent and it had I failed in a different way soon after.

For a cheap throwaway monitor maybe. For anything premium no way.

dnkejtskkfkg2• 6 months ago

Even though apple, asus and samsung have some top-notch models, premium monitors is actually where dell excels. At least the different models I’ve bought through the last decades. Cheap crap hardware are not welcome in my home.

wraptile• 6 months ago

This size just doesn't make sense due to overwhelming evidence that ergonomic viewing angles matter.

sigy2• 6 months ago

I ordered this within 30 minutes of learning about it. I've been waiting for something like this. Here's why:

- My eyes are getting older, and I need a better visual connection to my work.

- We spend much of our lives in front of these devices. Optimizing this just makes sense.

- It is more than just a monitor with some features. It's a well-rounded kit with good software support.

- I previously used multiple 4K monitors and external KVMs. The built-in KVM and management software that works with the display makes multi-system use as easy as it could possibly be.

- The resolution has _more than_ overcome the issues I had with font rendering on lower resolutions while trying to have more visual workspace.

- The thunderbolt hub has vastly reduced multi-system USB/wiring/speed clutter and confusion.

Yes, it was expensive. Yes, I'm very happy with it. Within this week, it has drastically improved my sense of comfort and utility, and I got rid of all the other monitors.

Ok, for the gripes:

- The curvature is a bit minor compared to what I'm used to. Given the spatial density I want, the optimal distance is less than 30" from the display, and with my aging eyes at this distance, looking from center to edge changes my focal depth by more than a small amount. That said, the off-axis views are quite good. Essentially, looking at this display from a longer distance wastes much of the effective ocular resolution.

- The software is great, but if you want something more tactile, reaching to the sole multi-purpose menu stick is not that great. It wouldn't have hurt for them to provide a USB-connected desktop switch. I hope they still do. This monitor runs its own "OS" of sorts, and can be extended with new functionality should they choose to.

- Finding the improved dynamic range took a bit of learning. The way it works feels better (less of a special case) for me, but I had to go adjust the settings to tap into higher resolution per color plane.

If anybody has any specific questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

wesleyd• 6 months ago

The radius is too big. This monitor is R4200, 4.2m. I have a Samsung odyssey something 49” monitor and it is glorious. It is R1000, and since my head is about a meter from the screen, it works: even the edges are usable.

I used to use two 27” 1440p monitors, which together are about the same size as the Samsung 49”, and also the same resolution, but the edges were further enough away from my head that they were annoying to use. Not to mention the bezels in the middle. While this dell wouldn’t have the bezels, the edges would still be too far away.

The only drawback of my giant R1000 monitor is that I can’t easily use my laptop’s camera. So I don’t; I use an iPad for video conferencing, it sits happily below this monitor.

My only regret is not getting the 57” 2x4k variant!

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

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