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Dell Wasn't Joking About That 28-Inch Sub-$1000 4K Monitor; It's Only $699
- pugz 13y agoCan't wait to see their pricing in Australia. If it's under $1k, I'd like a handful!
- nwh 13y agoIf it's above $1k it'll be worth while just importing them.
- chris_wot 13y agoYou're kidding. They'll inflate the price by 20%, just like everyone else does. Hi Apple and Adobe!
- corin_ 13y agoI know nothing about Australia, but $699 plus 20% is $838.80, which is $940 in AUD, which is under $1k.
- brianbreslin 13y agoAny idea how new of a macbook you would need to power this? I'm guessing my 2012 13" air can't run it right?
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- dkulchenko 13y agoLooking at another 4K monitor in the Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321-4k-ultra-hd-led-monitor http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321...), doesn't look like it: "Note that 4K DisplayPort operation is only compatible with the new Mac Pro (Late 2013). 4K HDMI operation is compatible with MacBook Pro (Late 2013) and the new Mac Pro (Late 2013). HDMI input is not available in the European-market Sharp PN-K321."
- cbhl 13y agoEven a brand-new Macbook would be unable to power this display. All currently sold Macbooks can only power displays up to 2560 by 1600; the Macbook Air can power one external display at this resolution, and the Macbook Pro can power two. (Edit: The iMac can also only power one additional display at the same resolution.) If you want to use a Mac with a 4K display, consider getting a Mac Pro, which can power up to three of them.
- 0x0 13y agoThis article claims the hardware in the latest macbooks can support it, but the current osx drivers max out at 30hz: http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/23/new-retina-macbook-pros-can-drive-4k-displays-at-60hz-when-running-windows-mac-os-needs-new-drivers/ http://9to5mac.com/2013/12/23/new-retina-macbook-pros-can-dr...
- ggreer 13y agoThe MacBook Air from 2012 or later can drive two 2560x1600 displays at 60fps: https://twitter.com/Antagonist/status/252936243606859777/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Antagonist/status/252936243606859777/pho... (It only has one Thunderbolt port, but Thunderbolt displays can be chained.) While the integrated graphics on the 2013 models can drive 4k displays at 60fps, only Thunderbolt 2 has the necessary bandwidth. The latest rMBPs have Thunderbolt 2, so they should be fine once OS X's drivers are updated. Everything else is stuck at 30fps.
- jmillikin 13y agoNote: according to the article the monitor is actually UHDTV (3840x2160), not 4K (4096x2160). Content encoded at 4K will need to be either cropped or scaled down, similar to 1080p content shown on a 1240x1024 monitor.
- binarycrusader 13y agoThe marketing droids won, you'll just have to get over it. Even the $3,600 Sharp monitor Apple sells that's labeled "4K" has the same resolution: With its 32-inch class (31.5-inch diagonal) screen size, 3840 by 2160 Ultra-HD resolution... http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321-4k-ultra-hd-led-monitor http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321... You and I can be bitter about it all we want, but there's no point.
- clhodapp 13y agoThey also finally cashed in the 'big side vs. small side' credit they've been holding onto since they first branded HD (720 and 1080 are the (exact) pixel-lengths of the small sides, while 4k is (less than) the length of the big side). Edit: Not only that, but they can (defendably) make the claim that 4k is "4 times the size of 1080p" while (deniably) knowing that some people will misinterpret.
- jsmthrowaway 13y agoMisinterpret how? By expecting that the sides will be four times larger? That exists, and it's called 8K. "Megapixels" already exists as an entrenched concept, and I don't think it's deceptive to call 4K 4x larger than 1080p or 8K 16x larger than 1080p.
- streptomycin 13y ago720 = 720 vertical pixels 1080 = 1080 vertical pixels 4k = 4000 = 4000 vertical pixels? Nope. Shit's confusing. 2k or 4x would be less confusing.
- 0x0 13y agoDoes this monitor have a built-in scaler, or do you get a small picture if you run at less than the full native resolution? I saw some earlier articles complaining about the lack of a scaler on some of the new "4k" monitors, but I couldn't find anything right now about this one.
- byuu 13y agoIt's worse than just a tiny picture: my ZR30w cannot display any source formats not 2560x1600. So I cannot connect it to any game consoles, a Roku box, etc. Only a PC video card. But it does result in an astonishingly low latency, at least.
- 0x0 13y agoSo I guess entering any kind of BIOS setup is out of the question then! :O
- zurn 13y agoSo we're finally starting to move past vertical resolution of 90's CRTs. It's starting to look like the shift to widescreen is working out ok after all!
- mgraczyk 13y agoI remember shopping for large format LCD panels in 2011. I equivocated for a while between a 30" HP for around $800 and a 30" Dell, and eventually ended up buying Dell's u3011 for around $1100. I also remember thinking how unreasonably high the prices were for large LCD panels and hoping that they wouldn't stay that way forever. It was a time when my monitor cost more than my computer. I think it's safe to say that that era has come to an end. Now I'm just hoping that the price of good desktop speakers comes down next....
- alan_cx 13y agoWhat is your definition of good desktop speakers and price? In the UK we can get this sort of thing: http://www.richersounds.com/product/standmount-speakers/cambridge-audio/sla25/camb-sla25-gls-blk http://www.richersounds.com/product/standmount-speakers/camb... Which are great desktop speakers at £80GBP Nothing like this in your neck of the woods?
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- JonnieCache 13y agoIt should be pointed out that these are active speakers with a builtin USB DAC. There are a variety of these things out there at this price range atm and they sound surprisingly good. Recommended. Alternatives: http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_active_320_usb.htm http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_m1_active_320_usb.htm http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StuDock3i/?adpos=1t1 http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/StuDock3i/?adpos=1t1 (There's a decent chance all 3 are the same product rebranded tbh.)
- Void_ 13y agoSoundsticks? http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-Soundsticks-III-Multimedia/dp/B0042F3K9W http://www.amazon.com/Harman-Kardon-Soundsticks-III-Multimed...
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- abstein2 13y agoHopefully it will have a DisplayPort out like the U2713H or a Cinema Display. The fact that the U2713HM doesn't have one makes high-res dual displays a pain for PC laptops.
- reitzensteinm 13y agoYou have to use MST with DisplayPort 1.2 - sort of like Dual Link with DVI - to drive it at full resolution at 60hz. The connector is already maxed out, so chaining is not possible. You'll probably have to wait until HDMI is updated, and use one DP and one HDMI.
- noinsight 13y agoYou mean mini DisplayPort? Because the U2713HM has a DisplayPort. I actually have the U2713HM and in my experience DisplayPort is a pain in the behind. I don't know if it's the monitor or the connection in general but whichever it is, it seems to suck. If I move my desktop an inch it will drop the signal completely, I'm not exaggerating one bit. It seems like if I even shake the cable a bit I lose the connection and when it does that it doesn't reconnect at all anymore, at least on Linux, without replugging the cable. Because it's a desktop I have to crawl under the desktop to replug the connection. At first I was using it on Intel graphics (i7 2600k) and sometimes I didn't get video at all on boot, dmesg had messages about "DisplayPort link training failed" or whatever. I had to reboot to get signal or replug both monitors in specific order and play with xrandr. I also started experiencing massive GPU hangs on Intel, don't know if it's related, but eventually I gave up and bought a passively cooled ATI. I have the same exact problems with that. I even bought a second DisplayPort cable, thinking that might be the problem. Nope. I even keep getting the similar "link training failed" messages with ATI. The connection seems to work fine if you get it working once and treat the cable like it's cursed and avoid touching anything ever. Don't know if it's the monitor or the connection in general though. What I do know is that the monitor also buzzes when there's lots of text on the screen (i.e. just open Wikipedia in a browser) which drives me insane at night if it's silent. Googling seems to indicate it's a problem with this model. Some "premium" display huh? If the future of display connectors is DisplayPort I will cry myself to sleep at night.
- jordan_litko 13y agomy gut reaction: god damnit.
- granttimmerman 13y agoI have a 39in 4k monitor that I bought for $500. The only problem is that 4k monitors through HDMI can only run at 30Hz, which is extremely noticeable. There might be a way to run at 60Hz but I haven't got it to work yet. Here's the monitor: http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00DOPGO2G http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/d...
- gojomo 13y agoCurious: what's the 30Hz effect? Flickering on a static desktop? Or just less-smooth animation?
- cloudwalking 13y agoJittery animation.
- jonah 13y agoEven DisplayPort 1.2 doesn't have enough bandwidth to push 60Hz. You're going to have to wait for a newer spec.
- barrkel 13y agoDisplayPort 1.2a does support these monitors AFAIK, through treating them as two panels daisy-chained together.
- will_work4tears 13y agoAh, I have this TV on my wishlist just for this use, I wasn't aware of the HDMI limitation. Is this an HDMI =< 1.4 issue and would it be better with HDMI 2.0?
- curiousAl 13y agoI assume that it being an Ultrasharp means it will be an IPS. If so, pretty sweet. And it might help drive down prices for the Korean 27s (1440p) monitors on eBay, which are much easier on the eyes (especially with text) than other panels.
- chx 13y agoIt's not Ultrasharp, where did you see that?
- curiousAl 13y agoYou're correct. I mixed up the first sentence with the next. But it seems to be an IPS, of some sort: "The P2815Q packs an IPS LED display will have a full 3840 x 2160 4K resolution. It launches globally on January 23. Dell hasn’t yet discussed things like refresh rate or range of inputs (I’m sure DisplayPort is a given), but they do promise the same “screen performance” as the new UltraSharp 32 and UltraSharp 24 Ultra HD monitors. That’s certainly encouraging since their UltraSharp line is normally a cut above when it comes to professional displays."
- dagw 13y agoThe $700 monitor they are talking about is not an UltraSharp, but a P-series monitor. In the past the P-series label has used for both TN and cheaper IPS panels. Dell already has a couple of 4K UltraSharp monitors, but they cost a lot more.
- victorhooi 13y agoMy understanding is that this is a TN panel, not IPS.
- shimon_e 13y agoIt shouldn't be long before some Korean/Chinese factory starts selling these for half price on ebay.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoIf I could buy one of these for even 6000 RMB in China I would get it in a heartbeat. Alas, it will take a long time for that to happen.
- jychang 13y agoThat's $1000 USD... Can't you just get the Dell version imported?
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoTry getting it through customs without paying ~$1000 customs duty. If it can't fit in my carry on, it is very difficult to just ship to China.
- 1stop 13y agoFly into Guangzhou (or train in from Hongkong). Flying I've never had my bag even run through a scanner (8-9 times flying in) - unless they are doing it between plane and baggage collect, in which case they are really fast!. Train, you run your bags through scanners, but no one seems to care (I've bought HEAPS of electronics in from Hong Kong ($2-4k worth at different times). Beijing and Shanghai - I would say you are right, they seem to be a bit more uptight there.
- rahimnathwani 13y agoIn Beijing, they scan bags right before you get out to meet your loved ones. They appear to select people at random, and from my observation you have 5%-10% chance of being selected. I'm not sure what they're looking for, though, as I've never seen them open a bag after it went through the scanner. I was quizzed about my road bike (which was obvious as it was packed separately) but after I explained it was old, and 'just a normal bicycle' and not 'for competitions', they let me through without a fuss.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoIf this gives me (personally) a significantly better viewing experience at normal distance than the 1680x1050 I have now, I won't just buy it, I'll eat it.
- EpicEng 13y agoOf course, you'll have to buy another one then.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoI'll eat that one, too.
- BadassFractal 13y agoI can't believe we might finally start seeing some movement in the resolution world outside of the Macbook realm. Think this will ever make it to laptops? Dell announces the year 2025 Ubuntu Programmer Edition ;) On an unrelated note, I have a last-gen Intel Haswell CPU with the HD4600. There's no way I can power this, can I?
- nkerkin 13y agoApple aren't the only ones that have been innovating in this space. For example, the terribly named Samsung Ativ Book 9 Plus has a ~20% higher pixel density than MBPs. It looks as though the HD4600 should be able to push UHD using DisplayPort
- chx 13y agoIt already made it to laptops: http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-tecra-w50-and-satellite-p50t-get-4k-display-updates-07311928/ http://www.slashgear.com/toshiba-tecra-w50-and-satellite-p50... Toshiba Tecra W50 and Satellite P50t get 4K display updates
- pugz 13y agoSaying it's already made its way to laptops is a bit of a stretch - the article you linked to said they'll be available mid-2014. This Dell monitor is available in a couple of weeks.
- HNaTTY 13y agoI'm successfully running a 50" Seiki 4k monitor off of the HDMI port on my motherboard. Only 30Hz with HDMI, but I also have DisplayPort, I might be able to upgrade to a 60Hz monitor without having to get a dedicated graphics card.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI was just about to purchase a Dell 27" monitor (1080p) as a second screen for my laptop. Glad I didn't as prices of UHD monitors seem to have become reasonable REALLY fast. I know nothing about displays. Can someone explain to me the difference between this monitor and (for example) the Sharp 4K display that is an option with the new Mac Pro and costs several thousand $? NB: I will be programming, working in Logic Pro, and watching YouTube. No photo or video editing.
- kayoone 13y agoBuying a 27" with 1080p resolution is a bad choice imo, my 7 year old Dell 24" has a higher resolution than that (1920x1200). For 27" you need to go for 2560x1440 resolution or you will just waste space. 4K is even better obviously :) In terms of differences to the Sharp Display i guess there arent many from a consumer point of view, but id wait for reviews and see if it has any weak points.
- josephlord 13y agoI agree; provided that your eyesight is good. I have 24" 1080P screen and higher resolution would definitely be better but without my glasses 27" might even be preferable. And this is assuming the distance to the monitor is a little over an arm's length, if the monitor is further away you would want bigger for a given resolution.
- dmm 13y agoYour 7yo Dell is probably a different screen ratio, 16:10, than his which is probably 16:9. You probably have very similar DPIs, but your 1920x1200 monitor just has more vertical screen space.
- rdl 13y agoI'd have a hard time deciding on this for $699 (maybe $500 with discounts), or the direct successor to my U2410 standard monitor, the 24" UP 2414Q. $1399 list, and probably $1k or so with discounts).
- be5invis 13y agoShut up and take my money!
- kayoone 13y agoI wonder whats the better option for replacing my 2x 24inch Dells (total resolution 3840x1200) 1) Get one 40 inch 4k monitor to have one giant display with about the same DPI but more screen real estate and no bezels 2) Get two 28 inch 4K displays for super high DPI but less screen real restate and bezels.
- doe88 13y agoOr maybe also a third alternative could be 1) + keep one of your old screens.
- josephlord 13y agoHow far away will they be? How good is your eyesight? How big is your desk? I would probably go for the option (2) provided your eyesight is good and the screens close enough to get some benefit from the higher density.
- kayoone 13y agoabout an arms length..Eyesight is pretty good, not perfect though. The thing i like most about it would be more vertical space for not so frequently used stuff and no bezels.
- josephlord 13y agoI would go for option (2) but I think I'm less worried about the vertical height and having separate screens on different data works for me so the bezel isn't critical. At the cost of bezels you could go for option (2) with the screens rotated to portrait.
- Shivetya 13y agoHow do you separate tasks? If your current setup is 2x then I would suggest staying with it unless you have identified why one display is better, other obvious size. The only issue with two or more monitor setups is I have found that unless they are identical its never possible to color match which can be disconcerting.
- timr 13y agoAm I the only person for whom that many pixels in a 28" display sounds like overkill? Maybe I'm just getting old, but the resolution on a cinema display is more than sufficient to make things unreasonably small. And getting closer to my desktop screen isn't really appealing either (again, maybe I'm getting old, but to see the pixels on my current screen I have to get my nose almost right up to the display, which I'm never going to do). Retina displays on mobile devices are more understandable because you tend to be closer to them, or because it's useful to render really tiny text on a small screen, sometimes. But on a desktop display? Seems like the display version of clock-speed fetish.
- knightni 13y agoI think there's two really great things about retina screens on desktops/laptops: - Firstly, I definitely notice the difference. The higher res screen is noticeably nicer to read. Sure, you don't need to go to the crazy extremes of some newer high res phones, but standard desktop monitors are noticeably ugly by comparison. - Secondly, the res is high enough that you can finally change (apparent) resolution. My parents are in their late 60s and have bad-ish eyesight, so they lower the resolution on their screen. The result is incredibly ugly. Unfortunately resolution independent display seems to be a forgotten goal in modern OSes, so having screens that can change res is definitely worthwhile.
- timr 13y agoA human eye with 20/20 vision can distinguish ~150ppi at 2 feet (a typical screen-to-eyeball distance). Beyond that, it's overkill. The apple thunderbolt display is at 109ppi, so there's a bit of room for improvement, but not 60% improvement. Beyond this limit, I suppose there are people with 20/1 vision or something, but they're pretty rare.
- introspectif 13y agoI've never gotten this argument. I mean, I have totally normal (nearly 20/20, but not quite... thanks to aging) vision, yet I can see the blurred edges of diagonal and rounded images perfectly fine on an iphone 5s at 2 feet. I think people just aren't really looking. I tried a thunderbolt display recently, and it was painfully low resolution. I haven't seen the math recently, but I have hard time believing that any phone today, let alone any monitor or television, really reaches the resolution of print.
- ck2 13y agoDarn it, just bought their 27 inch 2560x1440 for $600 a year ago.
- chaz 13y agoLenovo is also launching a 28" 4K monitor this April: "Along with the resolution, we have a 5ms response time, 72% color gamut, DisplayPort, mDP, HDMI and MHL connectivity, three USB 3.0 ports and dual 3W speakers. Lenovo is promoting a true 10-bit color, and streaming capabilities via other digital devices." http://www.anandtech.com/show/7635/lenovo-at-ces-2014-thinkvision-pro2830m-28-inch-4k-professional-display http://www.anandtech.com/show/7635/lenovo-at-ces-2014-thinkv...
- rartichoke 13y agoUnless it can do at least 60hz at 4k then no one should buy this. 30hz is ridiculously bad, even for desktop usage.
- FireBeyond 13y agoJust about all of these screens, with the exception of the first gen Seiki, can do 60Hz just fine. It's the computer, and interface, that struggle.
- rartichoke 13y agoNot at 4k resolution. They all advertise themselves as 120hz, but that's only at 1080p. Show me a 4k monitor that is using display port 1.20 that is not at a ridiculous price. A computer isn't going to struggle with that resolution for non-gaming usage. A $150 graphics card can easily handle 2x 2560x1440 monitors for desktop usage without breaking a sweat. You're going to end up having to spend a lot more to run a single 4k monitor too because your graphics card absolutely must have display port 1.20 or hdmi 2.0 (which isn't even out AFAIK).
- qwerta 13y agoI have my displays for nearly a decade, because I refused to downgrade to new HD displays. Finally something is happening.
- mortenjorck 13y agoSomething to keep in mind is that this is effectively a Windows monitor, not a Mac one. The reason for this is PPI: Most Apple displays are in the 100-110 PPI range, with Retina Display Macs doubling that to 220 PPI. At 28", a 3840 x 2160 panel has a PPI of 157, which sits right between Retina and non-Retina densities. This means that on a Mac, you’ll have to use it one of two ways: Either at 1x, where the higher PPI means everything will be much smaller than it is on a normal monitor, or at 2x, where the lower PPI means everything will be much bigger than normal. Windows doesn’t have anything nearly as neat and simple as OS X’s 2x mode, but it’s had a rougher 150 PPI mode for years, which will probably look just about right on this screen. The best 4K monitor for Macs will be a 24”, which will have a PPI of 184, just about right for something sitting a bit further back from the viewer than a 220 PPI Retina Macbook Pro display.
- andrewmunsell 13y agoWhile certainly not ideal, you can probably use this with a Mac with no issues and turn on scaling. It won't be a native resolution of the monitor and wouldn't be great for day-to-day use, but if you hook your Macbook up to a monitor every once in a while it should be fine.
- JackC 13y ago> This means that on a Mac, you’ll have to use it one of two ways: Either at 1x, ... or at 2x Huh. Are you maybe thinking of iOS, or have you confirmed this with a high-PPI external monitor on a Mac? Because it's not true of the built-in screen for retina MBPs. I typically use the 1.5x resolution (1920x1200) or 12/7x resolution (1680x1050), which are both supported by the built-in system prefs, and both look perfectly sharp as far as I can tell. Other resolutions are available via 3rd-party hacks and seem to work fine. The sharpness is supposedly because things are rendered at double resolution and then scaled down, which required some clever GPU work; whatever it is, it works for me. I'm prepared to believe that things don't work as well for third-party external monitors, though. Or maybe we're not ready yet to handle 60% more pixels, when the rMBP is already pushing performance limits?
- hyko 13y ago
- Jongseong 13y agoSuch high resolution displays may sound like overkill for many people, but improved resolution is a big deal to those who care about screen typography—specifically, in layman's terms, about how fonts look on screen. When displaying letters in small sizes, the pixel grid becomes increasingly coarse and the result often becomes ugly and less readable. To prevent this, "hinting" instructions need to be built into the fonts to help the type rendering, by fitting the horizontal and vertical strokes to the pixel grid, aligning heights, and so forth. System fonts provided with Windows are professionally hinted, as are many professional webfonts. On the type rendering environments on Windows, hinting makes a huge difference. The problem is, TrueType hinting—indispensable for TrueType fonts on Windows—is a complex, tedious process that only a very few specialists are able to do. I heard a few years ago that there was only one person who had the expertise to perform TrueType hinting on hangul (Korean alphabet) fonts. The result is that many if not most fonts are either unhinted or more or less automatically hinted (which is recognizably below the quality of manually hinted fonts) as many typeface designers find the prospect of TrueType hinting daunting. Manually hinted fonts are more expensive. If screen resolution improved so that unhinted fonts would still look good enough, that would vastly increase the choice of fonts that we can use for the screen. It would also free typeface designers of having to devote a significant chunk of font development on hinting. These types of issues are even more important for some other writing systems. Chinese characters, for example, can be very dense with dozens of strokes packed into a single glyph, and would be illegible at a modest size on the screen if the resolution was not high enough. Apple's approach to type rendering is less dependent on hinting, and it is not a coincidence that Apple has been leading the pack on high resolution displays as a way around the problems of rasterization. Further reading: http://www.rastertragedy.com/ http://www.rastertragedy.com/
- chrisdone 13y agoI think everybody cares about high DPG typography, they just rarely have a choice in the matter. If you ask Joe bloggs on the street to choose the more readable text that they'd prefer between a display from 2001 and 2010 they'll choose the 2010 one every time. Nobody sells a cutting edge laptop with a lower screen resolution, so it's never a choice somebody has to make, so nobody really knows it's a thing, explicitly.
- bhauer 13y agoExcellent. Again, a big thank you to Seiki for dropping a bomb on the display industry, whether or not Dell acknowledges it. 3840x2160 at 28 inches is quite fantastic. A step closer to 10,000+ horizontal pixels in a single ~50 inch display, which I consider an ideal for desktop computing. The burning question for me right now is who will sell me a GPU with three DisplayPorts to drive three of these? The top-end nVidia cards provide only a single DisplayPort [1]. I don't particularly care about 3D performance at this resolution—at least not yet—I just want three 3840x2160 capable ports from a single PCI Express slot. Ideally with a GTX 650 style short-length form-factor [2]. Again, 3D is of secondary concern to me, and the GTX 650 can already power 1x 3840x2160 (via HDMI 1.4) and 2x 2560x1600 (via DVI) without breaking a sweat—some of my colleagues and I are doing that presently. A 3x DisplayPort card for predominantly 2D productivity work is not unreasonable. [1] http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780-ti/specifications http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-780... [2] http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650ti/product-images http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-650...
- dmm 13y ago> who will sell me a GPU with three DisplayPorts to drive three of these? Visiontek makes a couple of eyefinity cards with 6 mini-dps. I didn't see the measurements but it doesn't look too long. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129274 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129...
- bhauer 13y agoI so want to believe you're right, but I don't see anything on that page that suggests those DisplayPorts can drive 3840x2160. The footnotes imply, but do not say specifically, that 2560x1600 is the maximum resolution supported by each port. Am I wrong?
- wtallis 13y agoAll the 7000 series Radeons and many of the earlier ones support DisplayPort 1.2, which gives them enough bandwidth per connection to handle 4k, and the total pixel count of 3 4k displays is only slightly higher than 6x2560x1600. The 7000 series Radeons increased the maximum dimension of an Eyefinity array from 8k to 16k, so 3 4k monitors in any rectangular layout should work.
- GigabyteCoin 13y agoWho ever thought they were joking?
- ColinDabritz 13y agoI think the "wasn't joking" is in reference to the "less than $1000". I think many people assumed the usual marketing phrasing here indicated that the display would likely run $999 or similar. $699 is dramatically less, which is surprising to me.
- nkerkin 13y agoThe article has been updated. No 60hz 4k is a deal breaker "UPDATE: I now have confirmation of the P2815Q’s full specs, and have listed them below. Unfortunately, it tops out at 30Hz 3840 x 2160 and 60Hz for 1920 x 1080. This should prove a deal breaker for gamers, but the monitor still has a solid feature set for the asking price. Panel tech: Anti-glare TN (not IPS which was previously rumored) Connections: DisplayPort (v 1.21)/Mini-DisplayPort, HDMI 1.4 (MHL 2.0), DispayPort out (MST), 1 USB upstream, 4 x USB 3.02 downstream (including 1 USB charging port with BC1.2 compliance devices on back) Color Depth: 1.073 billion colors Viewing angle: 170 degrees Response time: 5ms Brightness: 300 cd/m2 Power Consumption: 75W"
- victorhooi 13y agoHmm, the Forbes article has been updated with specs: UPDATE: I now have confirmation of the P2815Q’s full specs, and have listed them below. Unfortunately, it tops out at 30Hz 3840 x 2160 and 60Hz for 1920 x 1080. This should prove a deal breaker for gamers, but the monitor still has a solid feature set for the asking price. Panel tech: Anti-glare TN (not IPS which was previously rumored) Connections: DisplayPort (v 1.21)/Mini-DisplayPort, HDMI 1.4 (MHL 2.0), DispayPort out (MST), 1 USB upstream, 4 x USB 3.02 downstream (including 1 USB charging port with BC1.2 compliance devices on back) Color Depth: 1.073 billion colors Viewing angle: 170 degrees Response time: 5ms Brightness: 300 cd/m2 Power Consumption: 75W .... That's a bit disappointing that it only does 30Hz at the full resolution (3840 x 2160)...
- bhauer 13y agoYuck. That negates the excitement I felt about this monitor this morning. We already have a 30 Hz option (the Seiki). Let's see some forward momentum please, Dell.
- ckeck 13y agoKeep in mind that this appears to be a Dell "Professional" series monitor and not one of their UltraSharp lineups. So something somewhere has been sacrificed in order not to be included in the US class, and it shows in the price. I also believe this specific monitor only does 30Hz refresh at 4K, so...that's a big part of it.
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