Paul Haddad 
Samsung insanity! *
* Via app + student account
Samsung deal is dead. Was it a price mistake, guess I’ll find out soon enough
I really underestimated how terrible the OSD for a monitor could be, and I've used some terrible monitors. Samsung you've really outdone yourself!
My review of the S9, ignoring the OSD. Noticeably sharper than a 4k 27", good color, can get really bright, actual thunderbolt connectivity with fast USB downstream ports. Wake from sleep is a bit slow, but not terrible. Camera/speakers are usable, but I wouldn't use the speakers other than for emergencies.
Main display issue is the very aggressive matte coating on this display. I guess good if you have a bad office but I find it distracting and seems to really cut down on the viewing angle.
It's 100% not worth $1600, but neither is the Studio display. I'd say it’s a solid deal for a Mac productivity monitor at $500-$600. At $300 it’s a freaking steal and I'd buy another one if it ever hits that price again.
I've been running the Samsung 5k display consistently for over a week now and have been surprised at how good it has been. Wakes up when it should, goes to sleep when it should, doesn't wake up when it shouldn’t. When it wakes up it's always at the right resolution, refresh & bit rate. No black screen "flashes”. Haven't had to touch the OSD. Basically has just worked.
Doesn't sound like something to be very excited about, but Apple's 3rd party monitor support is not great…
Sam Strong@paul It took me a long time to find the network (?!) setting in Mac OS that was preventing my LG monitor from properly sleeping when running off thunderbolt. Even now it seems to power up every so often then immediately go to sleep again.
This Samsung sounds amazing.
Jonathan 
@SamStrong @paul funny enough a Samsung monitor I got had the same issue so I returned it… interestingly though the Dell i got didn’t have that problem. Both were running over thunderbolt. Maybe the issue you’re having with the LG and the network setting was just a coincidence since it still happens sometimes?
@JTostitos The problem was that when the MacBook (M3) went into standby the monitor never disconnected properly (backlight stayed on). Telling it to never wake for network access fixed it.
This random Reddit comment was the solution: https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/s/Dwgu5Qhm5P
@SamStrong interesting. I’ve never seen that before. My issue happened on Intel not sure if it would still happen now with Apple Silicon. Glad you were able to mostly fix the issue
@JTostitos Every situation seems different. This only started happening when I removed my work’s HP thunderbolt dock from the equation.
Of course this discussion now has me looking at what the 4k equivalent of my monitor is…