The issue is HDMI 1.3. That spec only allows 30hz across it at those resolutions. If it were Display Port then you could get higher refresh rates. My friend works at pcper.com and has reviewed both Seki's, the 39 and the 50 on a gaming machine. It takes a lot of video card to push that many pixels. The 30hz is bad. You think you can live with it, but after a while things like mouse pointer ghosting starts pissing ya off :) Once HDMI 1.4 gets adopted fully or HDMI2 then we can get around that problem
On the Apple side, they are using Thunderbolt (aka mini display port) which gets around the refresh issue. But I also had a friend buy the 39" for his MacMini not 2 weeks ago. Running it in pixel double mode, aka (retina) it was then running at 15hz. Painful. One big draw back to using something like 4k is the dpi. I know this is the linux list, but windows still does not handle that high of a dpi well, and neither does apple. So readability suffers. Pixel doubling and scaling the fonts...when the whole desktop isnt dpi agnostic isn't a solution. I've not run linux or xwindows as my desktop in years so I dont know how it would handle it. I bought 2 of the cheap Korean 27" monitors last year when I built my new machine. Running 2560x1440 x 2... is glorious :). 27" panels that are very pretty for about 350 a piece, cant complain too much. But I couldn't go back to a single monitor. -- -Kevin "You can't turn a pig into a thoroughbred, but if you spend enough time and money, you sure can make a mighty fast pig" On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Tim Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > My new laptop is 15.4" @ 2880x1620... > > I'm all for high res and high DPI.. 39" seems a little large to use on > a desk for something.. > > On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Jack Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=8430969&SRCCODE=WEBGOOPA&cm_mmc_o=mH4CjC7BBTkwCjCV1-CjCE&gclid=CLOqwpKw9rsCFe3m7AodcGAAVQ > > > > One guy on another list said they just replaced the monitors on their > > programmers desk with this, for $500 each. > > > > Anyone else tried this? > > > > > > -- > >><> ... Jack > > > > "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart"... Colossians 3:23 > > "If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate" - > > Henry J. Tillman > > "Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new." - > > Albert Einstein > > "You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral > > Grace Hopper, USN > > "a nanosecond is the time it takes electrons to propigate 11.8 inches" - > " - > > http://youtu.be/JEpsKnWZrJ8 > > "Life is complex: it has a real part and an imaginary part." - Martin > Terma > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
