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There are a lot of native size requirements that third party monitors don't meet as well. If you want 5K, which is the ideal for 2x 2560x1440 at 27", you're in a very different market. A 4k display running at 1x is easy to find, but a good 5K is a very different story.

This is why Apple sells the LG 5K display and why their iMacs have 5K displays when possible. Third party displays do work, but when you want to get into crazy town resolutions it's much harder to find them with high quality.



> A 4k display running at 1x is easy to find, but a good 5K is a very different story.

I have to ask - what's the value of 5k over 4k? 4k is already 'retina' quality (speaking of my 32" 4k as reference), what does another 1024 horizontal lines bring to the party?


Nah.

My 13" MacBook Pro is 13.3" at 2560x1600 or 227 PPI.

My 24" 4K monitor is 24" at 3840x2160 or 184 PPI.

Your 32" 4K monitor is 138 PPI, so only 60% of the density of MacBook displays.


That doesn’t mean that it’s not at a sufficient pixel density; I can’t discern them in normal operation (display an arm’s length from my eyes).


For one if you're doing 4k video editing you can view the video in its native resolution and see UI elements simultaneously.

Random super low quality image of this. http://noamkroll.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-...


That makes the most sense to me; I suspected something like that might be the answer. Thanks!


At 27-inch, 5K gets you 2× the pre-retina resolution.


I have a 31" 4K display and it's nowhere near retina dpi. I run it at 1x


Two Dell 4k monitors here, they are too skinny.

I'd like a 16:10 or even 4:3 monitor at 200+dpi, but they don't exist. (Maybe that IBM beast from ~2000.)




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