What 4K Monitor?

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BigJonMcQuimm

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975 posts

212 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Hi

Looking for some advise.

I have a Macbook Pro Retina, i7, that I would like to use with a dock and a 4k Monitor.

The setup will 95% used for remote access for work.

I was looking at this monitor:-

Samsung U28D590D 28 inch Ultra HDMI Monitor : link - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-U28D590D-inch-Ultr...

Is there a better monitor bang for buck?

Many thanks

BJM


ZesPak

24,430 posts

196 months

Monday 22nd September 2014
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Having used several monitors, do you need a 4K one?
IME, on something towards 27", 2560x (WQHD) something seems more than enough.
I personally can advise the Iiyama xb2779qs.

OSX is optimised for this, don't know about the experience on higher resolution, but there will always be a trade-off in terms of speed, brightness,...

Brother D

3,720 posts

176 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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What do you want to do on the monitor? If it's relatively static (i.e. development browsing etc) then all our developers have been won over by having a large (50 inch?) seiki TV as a monitor rather than 4 individual screens.
They do a smaller one in the UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/SEIKI-SE39UY01UK-39-Inch-U...
Bang for buck they seem pretty good.