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The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor
- silverlake 26d agoI’ve been on the fence about the P20 for a while. Some people report getting janky units. BenQ has a 3:2 monitor with 3840x2560 resolution, 120Hz refresh.
- gigatexal 23d agoOoh this looks nice. https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280ug.html https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280ug.html
- ghc 23d agoI got one of those about 6 months ago. It’s great. No complaints whatsoever.
- cosmic_cheese 23d agoYeah, I much prefer the higher PPI and metal chassis of the Kuycon, but its apparently spotty QC and uncertain brand reputation would make me lean towards the BenQ RD280UG if 3:2 aspect ratio were my dealbreaker. It's just too much money to be taking risks with. I do applaud the company for bringing a new interesting option to the market, though. Integer scaling HiDPI is rare enough (though thankfully is finally becoming more common), but integer scaling HiDPI with a ratio that's not 16:9 is practically a unicorn. If they can get QC under control I wouldn't mind buying from them in the future.
- Havoc 26d agoAnyone know how 60hz freesync works out in practice for casual gaming?
- malux85 25d agoAfter having 120Hz for 2 years, Im never going back to anything lower. At 120Hz I feel connected to the machine
- genxy 25d agoUsing Arch with 120Hz feels like you are on a fixie.
- smitty1e 23d agoSo I guess that that's a good thing? What would coasting mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle
- abrookewood 23d agoIt's a suprisngly apt analogy, considering with Arch you are always compiling ...
- sph 23d agoDid you mean Gentoo?
- zeagle 25d agoInteresting using the iPad that way for productivity. It's too bad there isn't a 3:2 OLED (and if there is let me know). I shelled out for a AW3225QF OLED 4k at 240hz and it is beautiful... I would love to get a proper OLED side monitor for the blacks and contrast but instead stick with my Dell U24 as replacing it seems silly.
- snehesht 23d agoWhat's the name of the keyboard in the picture ?
- lwhsiao 23d agoIt looks a lot like a ProtoArc XK03, but...slightly different. Maybe an older model?
- Gualdrapo 23d agoMy graphic designing ass feels like this is about the perfect ratio for a screen. And this thing seems quite sturdy. But even if I had the budget to afford it most probably I'd pass - having to handle settings with a remote control instead of with the OS via a ddc interface or something seems quite odd, or maybe it's just me that grew so used to this "old" Apple Thunderbold Display. Also that it doesn't have internal speakers, mic or webcam - I really like the thunderbolt display "peripherals" and make my desktop way less cluttered that it should be with just any other monitor, so the hypothetical case of having to get also speakers, mic and a webcam sounds like a serious downgrade. Can't care less about the 120Hz thing but maybe it's because I've never used a high-rate display. I wish they do a "P20 Pro" of sorts that adds this things.
- pezezin 23d agoTalking about unusual monitor aspect ratios, what I would really want is a 3840x2400 monitor. 1920x1200 is somewhat common and easy to find, but 2400p is only available on a few laptops. Why 2400p? Because it is the LCM of 400, 480 and 600, so it would allow perfect integer rescaling of my favourite MS-DOS and early Windows games.
- eichin 23d agoThe Sotsu "Flip Action Elite" (I think that's the product name? it was in a recent mrwhostheboss thin tech video) is exactly that: 3840x2400, 16", 450 nits, 14.3mm thick, and definitely had "slice the top off a laptop" vibe to the design... I don't know if you can actually find them though, but it looked really shiny :-)
- nine_k 23d agoTrivially available at B&H for about $750. Speaking of DOS games, it's about half the cost of an IBM VGA monitor from 1987, in today's dollars.
- utopcell 23d agoExternal 16" 3840x2400 monitors are ~$150 on Amazon.
- gyomu 23d ago> we still haven’t been able to get the colours quite right, in any setup. Yeah, instant non starter for a $1k display. And the HDR section makes it sound like HDR support is purely there to tick a checkbox and not actually usable on the device. Not even counting the fact that the author had to swap the display as soon as they received it to get a non-defective one. There’s a reason Apple displays are still the gold standard. Everyone else just skips the quality control part. If you trawl the high DPI display subreddits, you’ll find plenty of stories of people exchanging displays many times (3, 4, 5 or more) until they get a unit with an “acceptable” amount of dead pixels/color shift. For tech that’s in the $1k-$2k range (or above), it’s just unacceptable.
- mikae1 23d ago> There’s a reason Apple displays are still the gold standard. Apple is not the gold standard, Eizo's ColorEdge monitors are. Built-in hardware calibration is non-negotiable for color critical work. Monitors drift over time.
- BoredomIsFun 23d ago> Built-in hardware calibration is non-negotiable for color critical work No it is mostly a convenience gimmick. Support for external hardware calibration is important though. But far more important feature, implemented properly only by Eizo and no one else I am aware of - is uniformity compensation. Benq has it, so does Dell, but they all come with sever limitations compared to Eizo.
- mikae1 20d ago> No it is mostly a convenience gimmick. Support for external hardware calibration is important though. Until you decide to use Linux and all the distros you're interested in force you to use Wayland (which is a color management trainwreck). Also, I find that for actual work the calibration actually gets done if the display does it by itself during night at set intervals. Perhaps I'm just lazy.
- alex43578 23d agoI don't really get this monitor when a 4K 32in QD OLED exists. Running the 32in at 100% scaling will yield more usable space on the left and right, essentially the same height, way better colors, way better refresh rates, and no oddities like the weird remote. The 32in is also likely the same price or cheaper, from a real manufacturer with a real warranty.
- nine_k 23d ago32" is too large, it makes you turn your head a lot, and the distortion at the corners is noticeable. You can put it farther away (which requires a nonstandard desk), but it sort of defeats the purpose. To me, 28" 4K is near the sweet spot: it's exactly 4 14" screens of my ThinkPad. I wish the screens had higher resolution and smaller size though.
- alex43578 23d agoHow shallow is your desk? I'm on a pretty regular sized desk and have no issues with a 32in monitor. You said you wished the screens had a smaller size? You'd want a smaller than 28in screen? Wouldn't that get pretty uncomfortably close to view, even with scaling?
- armadyl 23d agoThe PPI of a 32” 4K is horrendous for anything that’s not media consumption or gaming though.
- dllu 23d agoI recently scored an amazing deal on the Samsung Odyssey G8 G80HS, which is 32", 6144 x 3456 at 165 Hz for only $700 via perks at work [1]!!! Even if computers typically cannot game at 6144 x 3456 px, it is incredibly nice to simultaneously have the fast refresh rate to glide your mouse cursor around smoothly, and have the super high image resolution to read super crisp text. The monitor can also be run at half resolution but at twice the framerate of 330 Hz, which is amazing for older or competitive titles. The only downside is that the quality control is not too great (my friend ordered the same one and it was defective) and the plastic bezel of the monitor seems very generic. [1] https://i.dllu.net/2026-09-09-20-40-23_b59cb931ec7bd913.png https://i.dllu.net/2026-09-09-20-40-23_b59cb931ec7bd913.png
- walrus01 23d agoThe remote looks like something that belongs to a $50 fan purchase on Amazon with a brand name like LXGYMONCEON
- throwaway81523 23d agoCould they have just put "$1000" in the first line of the article? In fact they didn't mention it at all, and I had to look in the AMA zone.
- HelloUsername 23d agoYou can tap on "P20" in the disclaimer at the beginning of the article, it redirects you to the products webshop where it says $899 USD
- rcarmo 22d agoYeah, I never mention prices in my reviews because the very first link is usually to the manufacturer or the product page, and prices go stale.
- Oxodao 23d agoI really need a 3:2 desktop monitor but it's just impossible. AFAIK there's only the BenQ one (well it seems that now there's two) and it's out of my budget. I would have no problem settling with a 1080p one but there's just no manufacturers :( Coding is so much nicer on those. I have a Huawei Matebook 14 from a few years ago, and at my previous work I had a Framework, this ratio is just night and day it's so much better
- BoredomIsFun 23d agoThere is a plenty of Chinese lower quality 28 3:2s