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Best minimalist Mac setups: More power, less stuff
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Best minimalist Mac setups: More power, less stuff

Many computer setups go for mission-control overkill. But sometimes the best setup is austere. Check out the best minimalist Mac setups. (via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumor...

Blake Patterson Apr 1

SO HAPPY tonight!

LG has discontinued the DualUp LCD display ( 28MQ780-B ), it seems, sometime in the last 12 months or so. It is a 28-inch "4K"-class monitor that is nearly square, 2560x2880 in resolution with a 16:18 ( = 8:9 = 4:4.5 ) aspect ratio.

I have this display and it is the best display I have ever used in my life. I use it rotated 90 degree on the Mac, running in a "HiDPI" mode that is effectively 2304x2048, scaled. It looks amazing and is perfect for my needs.

I have used this as the main display on my Mac Studio since 2022. I always intended to buy a spare for when this one dies, but I missed the chance, so I setup an elaborate real-time monitoring system on eBay that has been alerting me the instant one appears on the site. They often go for twice retail or more.

This weekend one appeared that was local, and I talked to the seller and he told me it had only 490 hours on-time (which I've since verified), is flawless, and would meet me for pickup. He actually dropped the price and we did the sale outside of eBay. I paid about $200 over retail.

But, now I have a backup! My square, UNIX-perfect system can live on well beyond what it might otherwise have.

Bizarre source of excitement - but I'm so happy right now.

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Blake Patterson Feb 10

It astonished me that there exist no 32 or 32 inch curved OLED 2560x1440 ("2.5K") displays being manufactured -- at all.

All of that size and curvature are 4K in resolution.

I don't want to use 4K (or pay for such a display); it's 2.25x as many pixels and it's not nearly worth the huge extra load on the GPU, in my opinion -- and I have an RTX 5080.

Hopefully one will eventually emerge, but we will probably be seeing 8K versions of the aforementioned first. 🙄

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/are-there-no-curved-32-inch-2560x1440-2-5k-oled-displays.1511580/

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Are there no curved, 32-inch, 2560x1440 ("2.5K") OLED displays?

I have a powerful gaming PC with a 32-inch, curved, 2560x1400 VA LCD panel. I like this setup, and want to replace this display with one of the same spec, but OLED. I have a GPU fairly well capable of 4K (RTX 5080) but I am not particularly interested in 4K gaming. It's 2.25x the pixels of...

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Blake Patterson Jan 12

Looking for a different monitor use case, I happened to notice the LG DualUp display is available at far less places than it was a year or two ago...

LG confirmed in product site feedback that it is still being made -- in a 5 month old post.

This might be time for me to grab a second one to keep waiting in the wings. Best display I've ever used in my life (center, 2560x2880 8:9 aspect display (rotated 90 degrees in accompanying photo)).

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