I’m running a stock (but fully-loaded) MacBook Pro:

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)

Processor: 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7

Memory: 16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3

Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

My monitor is a Seiki 39” 4k monitor. It’s plugged into the HTMI port on the 
MBP. I usually keep the laptop closed.

I currently have 14 desktops with maybe 30 browser windows open in Chrome and 
~60 tabs open; 20 Safari windows open with ~30 tabs open; and several other 
apps I keep open as well.

Chrome has a lot of memory problems, for sure. It slows the entire system down 
after a while, and I’ve noticed that the more windows on a given desktop, the 
slower things run. Swithcing to a desktop with fewer browser windows open on it 
clearly improves performance.

-David "The Tool Wiz" Schwartz



> On Jun 23, 2016, at 6:29 AM, Keith Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hardware specs are in order after seeing 3-48's.  What video card are you 
> driving this with.  CPU?  RAM....?
> 
> I cannot imagine the number of windows you could possibly have open at any 
> one time while being able to see them all at once.
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-06-23 00:08, Michael Butash wrote:
>> Likewise, much the same, I was going to go with 40", but a buddy got
>> one of the seiki cheap 4k tv's, and it was just too small, odd to say.
>> Standing in front of a 55" seemed too big, I ended up with the 48's
>> that I think are just about right with 4k, and curved was nice for the
>> desktop.  I could have lived with the 55's I think.
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>> I spread things out as well, and I can still full-screen chrome or
>> whatever, zoom in, and read with my aging eyes.  Even with 11520x2160
>> pixels, I still end up with clutter piling up at times.  KDE's idle
>> windows as transparent is great for this.
>> Ubuntu/Unity just sorta barfs and never finishes launching on mine to
>> test with compiz the pretty features.
>> -mb
>> On 06/22/2016 12:10 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
>>> I’ve been using a 39” 4K TV as a monitor with my MacBook Pro for about 8 
>>> months now. (I keep the MBP closed.)
>>> My only complaint is not the monitor, but the fact that my eyesight is 
>>> degrading (I’ll be 60 next month) and I can’t read most stuff displayed at 
>>> “native” resolution. This is true of the Retina display on my MBP as well. 
>>> Younger eyes would probably really love it at native resolution (ie., much 
>>> smaller renderings).
>>> My opinion at this point is that 39” is too small for a 4K monitor.
>>> But parallax plus “angle of incidence” that some monitors have (ie, the 
>>> effective viewing angle) becomes a problem with larger screens when you’re 
>>> sitting a little more than an arm’s-length away.
>>> To be viewed most effectively, the screen really needs to be curved 
>>> spherically or parabolically, where the eyeballs are positioned at the 
>>> centroid of the curve.
>>> But I have to say, it’s AWESOME to be able to have two or three apps open 
>>> in different windows and have them spread out on a large viewing area 
>>> without overlapping. It’s basically like having four HD monitors right 
>>> there.
>>> -David Schwartz
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