| ▲ | madmod 5 hours ago |
| I have 3 27" 5k monitors in portrait and a 32" 4k horizontal above those. It is all mounted with vesa cheeseplates to manfrotto magic arms on t slot aluminum attached to a C stand with manfrotto super clamps. I also have two genelec studio monitors which sound amazing. All of that cost less than this one monitor. |
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| ▲ | turtlebits 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| And you can get at least 10x 24" 1080p monitors for the price of a single 5k monitor. Being on the leading edge of tech costs money. That said, your mixmatched PPIs would drive me nuts. |
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| ▲ | maest 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| All the brand naming makes this read like something from American Psycho. |
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| ▲ | nine_k an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The brand names are there, I assume, to show that it's not some cheapskate setup jerry-rigged from salvaged parts. Because even then it's still less expensive that the giant Dell monitor. I frankly don't understand the point of such monitors. If they are placed reasonably near, they don't fit human FOV well, and the periphery is seen distorted. If they are far enough away, the pixel pitch goes well past the angular resolution of the eye. | |
| ▲ | otterley 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | In case you don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY | |
| ▲ | cheschire 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or Fight Club | | |
| ▲ | nemosaltat 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | “We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear.” |
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| ▲ | turtlebits 13 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| And you can get at least 10x 24" 1080p monitors for the price of a single 5k monitor. Being on the leading edge of tech costs money. That said, the mixmatched PPIs would drive me nuts. |
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| ▲ | InMice 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I get bonkers annoyed using just two monitors with macos or windows. multi monitor management... nothing behaves how i want it to, apps never open where they should etc etc. I havent tried it on desktop linux enough to know if it's any better - maybe at least id assume have the most configuration control on linux. How do you do it? I always give up in frustration.
100% would keep the genelecs :) |
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| ▲ | sourcegrift 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | On linux i3 I've bound my workspaces to default to a monitor and my apps to default to a respective workspace. Very very productive | |
| ▲ | ninkendo 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I can only speak for the Cinnamon desktop environment on Linux Mint, but it’s very simple: - Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on - Switching the focused window to the other monitor is Win+Shift+Arrow Keys So if I clicked to open an app, it’s on the monitor I’m already looking at. If I used a keyboard shortcut, win+shift+arrow is super easy and simple. The fact that it’s a stupid simple rule means I can get way better at just doing things by muscle memory… I don’t have to worry about being outsmarted by the window manager. | | |
| ▲ | encom 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | >Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on ...but you can set up rules to force a given program to always launch at a specified position and dimension. | |
| ▲ | InMice an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Thanks Im going to try it |
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| ▲ | Frotag 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | On KDE and things like opening app on active monitor / desktop work fine. Only complaint is that on older versions, the taskbar on secondary monitors would sometimes disappear. For reference I have 3 monitors (2x 4k, 1x 1080p) and am currently using Debian / Wayland and Ubuntu / X11. | | |
| ▲ | neves 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I really miss kde generator of shift click in maximize window icon. It would expand a window just vertically. Does windows has anything similar? | | |
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| ▲ | novaleaf 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| what's the make/model for the monitors? my setup is getting long in the tooth. |
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| ▲ | deepsun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Interesting, manfrotto's website has a cookie notice with two buttons: ALLOW ALL and ALLOW SELECTION. However, there's no selections -- there's only a description of hundreds of cookies they store (e.g. 73 in Marketing section), but there's nothing to select, it's only text. |
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| ▲ | buzer 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | There seems to be grey deny button at top-right on first view but it disappears if you select the details. You need hide the details first if you want to click it. | | |
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| ▲ | FireBeyond an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Not for nothing but 6K HDR @ 120Hz is likely a large part of the cost of this monitor. I don't know if I'd put it on my desk, I got somewhat used to my setup - I had 2x4K 27" 144Hz monitors with very thin bezels (LG or Asus?) that I then traded in when I got a ProDisplay XDR. I do wish for higher refresh, and maybe more screen size. |
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| ▲ | byproxy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What Genelecs are you using?? |
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| ▲ | EnPissant 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Not OP, but I have 2 8020D + a subwoofer. If I had to do it all over again I would have 2 8030C and no subwoofer. | | |
| ▲ | someguyiguess 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Why? Just out of curiosity. Is it that you don’t need that much low end for the media you’re usually playing through your monitors or do the 8030Cs have enough low end to eliminate the need for a separate woofer? I’ve been debating getting genelecs for a few years now but the price jump from something like JBLs or Yamahas is so huge that I can’t justify it. At least not on my current budget. | | |
| ▲ | brandonmenc 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I have the smallest of both: 8010As and a 7040A sub. I'm sending almost nothing to the sub, and I'm guessing the 8030s would provide most of what I'm using the 7040 for without the inconvenience. I'm in a small room and going for accuracy, so don't need much bass. | |
| ▲ | EnPissant an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | I currently have the 8020D + 7040A. It's pretty much perfect sound with room correction applied, but the 7040A is kind of big and ugly. I'd be willing to give up some low-end to simplify the setup. Also the sub performs the crossover, so it's a lot of cords: 2 cords for DAC -> Sub, and 2 cords for sub -> L/R. And these cords have to be really long for when I raise my desk because the sub has to go on the floor. |
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| ▲ | ziofill 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I sport two klipsch towers on either side of my desk and a small tube amp ^^' |
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| ▲ | whyenot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I'm not sure what your point is. This monitor is less than 1/2 the price of Apple's Pro Display XDR with nano texture glass. |
