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Speaking as someone who's in the market for a new display, I haven't been able to find a quality 27" 5K screen. LG has one, but it gets poor reviews. Everybody

Speaking as someone who's in the market for a new display, I haven't been able to find a quality 27" 5K screen. LG has one, but it gets poor reviews. Everybody else is selling 4Ks, which is lower effective resolution than what I'm using now (a 23" 1920x1200 Apple Cinema display). So this is definitely appealing to me.

aryamaan 5y ago
I am in the same bucket. LG Ultrafine is the only option which seems available. But it's an old model and I am surprised the lack of availability from the other manufacturers.
ithkuil 5y ago
I have the LG ultra fine 5k and it's a very good monitor. It has a small defect: occasionally there is a small flickering on the central vertical line. It goes away if you put the screen to sleep and wake it again (it takes a few seconds, and I had to do it a handful of times in a year)
pedrocr 5y ago
The effective resolution of 4K is 2x in both directions because to match the size you just set the 27" screen a bit farther away so it fills the same field of view. The jump in resolution from going 4K will be very noticeable and a 27" 4K IPS screen is less than 300€. Well worth the upgrade.
- jdlshore 5y ago
  Because I’m on a Mac, everything will be rendered at 2x resolution, giving me the same usable area as a 1920x1080 display, even though the physical area is larger. That’s a step backwards—I’m not willing compromise on usable area or 2x resolution, so a 4K display isn’t good enough. (Edit: my Cinema Display is something like 15 years old, so I’m confident I’ll get my money’s worth out of a new purchase.)
  - pedrocr 5y ago
    OSX does have intermediate steps so you can use those instead. It's not true fractional scaling but as the resolution increases the artifacts are less noticeable. Don't know if there are any 2400px tall 4K screens if you want to go for exactly the same dimensions.

aryamaan 5y ago

I am in the same bucket. LG Ultrafine is the only option which seems available. But it's an old model and I am surprised the lack of availability from the other manufacturers.

ithkuil 5y ago

I have the LG ultra fine 5k and it's a very good monitor. It has a small defect: occasionally there is a small flickering on the central vertical line. It goes away if you put the screen to sleep and wake it again (it takes a few seconds, and I had to do it a handful of times in a year)

pedrocr 5y ago

The effective resolution of 4K is 2x in both directions because to match the size you just set the 27" screen a bit farther away so it fills the same field of view. The jump in resolution from going 4K will be very noticeable and a 27" 4K IPS screen is less than 300€. Well worth the upgrade.

jdlshore 5y ago
Because I’m on a Mac, everything will be rendered at 2x resolution, giving me the same usable area as a 1920x1080 display, even though the physical area is larger. That’s a step backwards—I’m not willing compromise on usable area or 2x resolution, so a 4K display isn’t good enough. (Edit: my Cinema Display is something like 15 years old, so I’m confident I’ll get my money’s worth out of a new purchase.)
- pedrocr 5y ago
  OSX does have intermediate steps so you can use those instead. It's not true fractional scaling but as the resolution increases the artifacts are less noticeable. Don't know if there are any 2400px tall 4K screens if you want to go for exactly the same dimensions.