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The crisp display is truly great. What sucks is that a dual-monitor setup of a low-res monitor and my hiDPI laptop monitor is not that great. I have to upscale

The crisp display is truly great. What sucks is that a dual-monitor setup of a low-res monitor and my hiDPI laptop monitor is not that great. I have to upscale my monitor a bit, which makes the monitor look even worse than it already is (1920x1080). The monitor has a lot of room, but I naturally want to leave most windows on the small hiDPI laptop screen. HiDPI monitors cost waaaay too much for me to get one. So for now, I just have to wait until the price starts going down.

paulmd 10y ago
You can get a QNIX QX2710 IPS 1440p for ~$200 on eBay. Do pay attention to connectors - presumably with a laptop you want one of the versions with HDMI or DisplayPort inputs, not the DVI-only variants. It has a PWM backlight, other versions have DC backlights (Check out the Crossover 2795QHD) but you are stepping up closer to $300 at which point you are competing with options like a refurbished Acer XB270HU or XG270HU 144hz/gsync monitor. 28" TN 4K monitors are regularly going for ~$300 nowadays. Again, Crossover makes a few here, the 288K and 289K. If you want IPS, keep an eye on the Dell Outlet for a P2715Q. They tend to run a lot of 35-40% off coupons for monitors, you can get one for under $350 if the timing works out. You will need DP 1.2 to drive 4K@60hz - HDMI 2.0 doesn't have any significant market penetration yet. The Koreans basically make all the panels that go into monitors, and they take the ones that failed QC for whatever reasons and sell them cheaply though channels like eBay. You may have to put up with a few dead pixels but you can get a great IPS 27" monitor for the price of an average whatever. Don't bother getting the "pixel perfect" warranty unless you are OK paying to mail it back to Korea for replacement.
- emerongi 10y ago
  Wow, this is great information. Thanks.
  - aroch 10y ago
    I've purchased several of these 1440p Crossover monitors and they're pretty good. It is worth paying the ~$20 more for the variants listed as "pixel perfect" (If you're buying from one of the handful of reputable sellers). I also have a Yamakasi M280PU which is a 27", 4K panel.
- Matthias247 10y ago
  I wouldn't really recommend the 1440p versions. I had one shortly, but I did not really found it comfortable to look at. If scaling is disabled text is too tiny, and scaling (probably 125-150%) does not work as good as with higher resolutions. I now have a 28" 4k screen for which a higher scaling factor can be applied and that looks much better (although still worse than a MBP with retina screen). I guess 24" or 27" with 4k would be also good.

paulmd 10y ago

You can get a QNIX QX2710 IPS 1440p for ~$200 on eBay. Do pay attention to connectors - presumably with a laptop you want one of the versions with HDMI or DisplayPort inputs, not the DVI-only variants. It has a PWM backlight, other versions have DC backlights (Check out the Crossover 2795QHD) but you are stepping up closer to $300 at which point you are competing with options like a refurbished Acer XB270HU or XG270HU 144hz/gsync monitor. 28" TN 4K monitors are regularly going for ~$300 nowadays. Again, Crossover makes a few here, the 288K and 289K. If you want IPS, keep an eye on the Dell Outlet for a P2715Q. They tend to run a lot of 35-40% off coupons for monitors, you can get one for under $350 if the timing works out. You will need DP 1.2 to drive 4K@60hz - HDMI 2.0 doesn't have any significant market penetration yet. The Koreans basically make all the panels that go into monitors, and they take the ones that failed QC for whatever reasons and sell them cheaply though channels like eBay. You may have to put up with a few dead pixels but you can get a great IPS 27" monitor for the price of an average whatever. Don't bother getting the "pixel perfect" warranty unless you are OK paying to mail it back to Korea for replacement.

emerongi 10y ago
Wow, this is great information. Thanks.
- aroch 10y ago
  I've purchased several of these 1440p Crossover monitors and they're pretty good. It is worth paying the ~$20 more for the variants listed as "pixel perfect" (If you're buying from one of the handful of reputable sellers). I also have a Yamakasi M280PU which is a 27", 4K panel.
Matthias247 10y ago
I wouldn't really recommend the 1440p versions. I had one shortly, but I did not really found it comfortable to look at. If scaling is disabled text is too tiny, and scaling (probably 125-150%) does not work as good as with higher resolutions. I now have a 28" 4k screen for which a higher scaling factor can be applied and that looks much better (although still worse than a MBP with retina screen). I guess 24" or 27" with 4k would be also good.