Do you need to have the 55” one? You can get a 28” 4K Samsung monitor for around $750 these days. The pixels being closer would probably give you a smoother picture at close range.
However, to output 4K, your GPU, chipset and display port (HDMI or DisplayPort) need to support the resolution. For example, you can see the max possible supported resolutions for Intel laptop chipset/GPUs here: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/quick-reference-guide-to-intel-processor-graphics (hint: 3rd gen Core / IvyBridge is 2560x1600 and 4th Gen Core / Haswell is 4K) Cheers Ken From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: Friday, 9 May 2014 11:35 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] 4K TVs I'm surprised at how hard it is to find out if it is possible to use a 4K TV with a laptop (with Mini Displayport). I did a little reading and I think this is possible to do if the TV supports HDMI 2.0 but I'm not sure if the laptop also needs to support HDMI 2.0 or if Mini Displayport would work (with adapter). Anyone know or tried this with a new TV? Would love to have a big 55" curved series 9 Samsung as my main coding screen. I have seen some machines can only drive the 4K res at 30Hz which would suck for gaming but would be very cool for coding. Happy Friday :) Stephen
