Ultrawide display (for Apple Silicon Mac)

[Christiaan]

• Our current setup is 3 displays: 4K iMac + 2x Cinema Displays (1680 x 1050)
• While it's great having the two additional displays they're not as useful as they could be because I don't use them for VW, because of their low resolution.
• And VW + macOS can sometimes struggle with multiple displays. So having one display would make things more stable.
• Given that we're probably going to switch to a Mac Studio or Mac Pro (and the considerable cost of the less than stellar Studio Display) it seems like our next displays should be a third party ultrawide.

1. Is there anything we need to keep in mind when considering ultrawides for Vectorworks, and particularly for Mac and Apple Silicon machines?
2. What's it like working with a curved display in Vectorworks? Wouldn't a flat ultrawide be better suited to Vectorworks?
3. Are there any 5K ultrawide displays that can scale properly using this interface (rather than the other interface, which is a list of resolution sizes)?
   

 

Edited August 15, 2022 by Christiaan

[Christiaan]

YouTube has been suggesting some ultrawide display reviews. Namely the LG 40WP95C-W:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrkY5SgXi1w

 

Which as far as I can tell is very good.

 

Pros:

• Excellent colour
• Huge, with great resolution. Not 'Retina Display' but I probably won't see the pixels.
• Thunderbolt 4 and no power brick
• Full tilt n tun stand as standard
• Subtle curve, not too much wrap around

• Quite like the idea of being able to daisy chain two of these displays together. Is that getting greedy? 😆 

 

Cons:

• Biggest con is that it's not the brightest (which also negates the HDR)
• Seems like proper macOS scaling is still a problem 
• Can't control volume from keyboard
• Built-in speakers not as good as Apple's built-ins
• No web cam
• It uses close to 3x the energy of Apple's Studio Display, or more than that in HDR mode, and in fact more than Apples Pro Display XDR.

Edited August 15, 2022 by Christiaan

[Christiaan]

Dell equivalent seems to be the U4021QW?

[Christiaan]

I wonder what the chances are of Apple offering an ultrawide display by the time they release their new Mac Pro.

 

Having now got my head around the ultrawide displays, the fact that the Studio Display isn't one almost seems like the worst thing about now.

[Christiaan]

Are there any downsides to this thing?

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/gaming/odyssey-neo-g9-g95na-49-inch-240hz-1ms-quantum-mini-led-ls49ag950nuxxu/

 

Edit: the wrap around curve for gamers is a bit of a showstopper.

Edited August 15, 2022 by Christiaan

[E|FA]

I had been looking at these, but no actual experience: 

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/professional/pd3420q.html

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/professional/pd3220u.html

[rDesign]

2 hours ago, Christiaan said:

Are there any downsides to this thing?

https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/gaming/odyssey-neo-g9-g95na-49-inch-240hz-1ms-quantum-mini-led-ls49ag950nuxxu/

 

Edit: the wrap around curve for gamers is a bit of a showstopper.

Maybe because it’s only Double Quad HD resolution with 1440p vertical? Not 4K / 5K…

[Christiaan]

7 hours ago, rDesign said:

Maybe because it’s only Double Quad HD resolution with 1440p vertical? Not 4K / 5K…

Yeah that and and major curve are a problem I think. 1440 wouldn't be enough vertical space.

 

I see that the 5120x2160 LG 40WP95C-W gets referred to as a 5K2K

[Christiaan]

10 hours ago, E|FA said:

I had been looking at these, but no actual experience: 

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/professional/pd3420q.html

https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/professional/pd3220u.html

As with the LG 40WP95C-W the peak brightness is quite low. The 32" in particular might not be bright enough in a bright room. It also makes a bit of a mockery of the HDR feature because it can't produce bright areas. I may be wrong, because I'm just regurgitating what I've read elsewhere, but I believe with HDR you need at least 600 nits, ideally 1000, otherwise it can't display a white that differentiates enough from grey.

 

They might be good displays in practice but I don't know that you'd be truly getting HDR.

Edited August 16, 2022 by Christiaan