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> As soon as I started using the Studio Monitor it felt like I had put glasses on. Every other screen looks blurry now. This is literally how I felt about movi

by veidr 5y ago

> As soon as I started using the Studio Monitor it felt like I had put glasses on. Every other screen looks blurry now. This is literally how I felt about moving from these 27" 5K screens (I had Apple's iMac Pro and also a couple LG UltraFine external monitors), when I moved to a 31.5" 8K screen (Dell UP3218K). The difference is every bit as dramatic as going 4K → 5K. I had literally just gotten my first prescription glasses a month before getting the 8K. I don't need them at all on the 8K; I put them back on when I use these horrid, blurry 5K panels — panels that I used to love, mind you, and proclaimed "I think these are good enough; with my middle-aged eyesight I don't need anything better." I was dead wrong.

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veidr 5y ago
It's more like 220ppi vs 280ppi (thanks https://www.sven.de/dpi https://www.sven.de/dpi !) and the difference is way, way bigger than I thought. In fact it is the biggest improvment in text-reading ergonomics I have ever experienced from a monitor upgrade, and that includes 4K → 5K. I can't even see the pixels at 220ppi on a 5K, so I thought I didn't need any higher. But in fact, what I see is fuzz. Just a bit, and it's very small and I could live with it... until I saw the 8K at 280ppi. For a few weeks I had them side by side so I asked serveral non-nerds (no other nerds were available, due to the ongoing pandemic). Every person agreed the 8K monitor "looks clearer". (Oops looks like the comment I am replying to was deleted, but anyway I will leave this additional info anyway.)
- ksec 5y ago
  I thought Apple was moving towards 250PPI when they released their M1 MacBook Pro, and ditching 220PPI standards they have been using on Mac for 10+ years. And the differences are much more dramatic in complex character languages like Chinese and Japanese.
awiesenhofer 5y ago
I still dream about getting one of those - do you use it at 2x scaling? And how do you drive that thing?
- veidr 5y ago
  Yeah it is perfect at 2x scaling. I drive it from Linux though (a regular Intel workstation build with an RTX 3060 video card driving it via 2 DisplayPort cables). AFAIK (and I've looked into it), there is no way to drive this monitor from a Mac unless you have an Intel Mac with a Blackmagic eGPU using the Titan Ridge chipset. (Haven't confirmed that works, though, since I don't have an Intel Mac.)

by veidr 5y ago

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veidr 5y ago

It's more like 220ppi vs 280ppi (thanks https://www.sven.de/dpi https://www.sven.de/dpi !) and the difference is way, way bigger than I thought. In fact it is the biggest improvment in text-reading ergonomics I have ever experienced from a monitor upgrade, and that includes 4K → 5K. I can't even see the pixels at 220ppi on a 5K, so I thought I didn't need any higher. But in fact, what I see is fuzz. Just a bit, and it's very small and I could live with it... until I saw the 8K at 280ppi. For a few weeks I had them side by side so I asked serveral non-nerds (no other nerds were available, due to the ongoing pandemic). Every person agreed the 8K monitor "looks clearer". (Oops looks like the comment I am replying to was deleted, but anyway I will leave this additional info anyway.)

ksec 5y ago
I thought Apple was moving towards 250PPI when they released their M1 MacBook Pro, and ditching 220PPI standards they have been using on Mac for 10+ years. And the differences are much more dramatic in complex character languages like Chinese and Japanese.

awiesenhofer 5y ago

I still dream about getting one of those - do you use it at 2x scaling? And how do you drive that thing?

veidr 5y ago
Yeah it is perfect at 2x scaling. I drive it from Linux though (a regular Intel workstation build with an RTX 3060 video card driving it via 2 DisplayPort cables). AFAIK (and I've looked into it), there is no way to drive this monitor from a Mac unless you have an Intel Mac with a Blackmagic eGPU using the Titan Ridge chipset. (Haven't confirmed that works, though, since I don't have an Intel Mac.)