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I have this 5k monitor. It sits around 30cm from my ASUS 2.4 and 5ghz router. It's connected to my Macbook Pro 2016 15". I connect one USB hub via a USB A to USB C adapter. This hub powers a MIDI keyboard, Native Instruments Maschine, FocusRite Scarlett audio interface, SD cards when I put them in, USB hard drives when I plug them in. The hub hides behind the monitor. I personally love sitting down to work with this monitor each day and I don't understand the arguments against it. There is nothing better on the market today for the spec you get.

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> "There is nothing better on the market today for the spec you get."

Aside from the small detail of the monitor getting blown away by a router nearby - a router nearby is not exactly an uncommon occurrence in a computing environment. Not to mention the other issues like possible kernel reboots and flickering caused by unknown factors.

In context, it is a small detail (anyone serious enough buy this monitor and able to afford it will likely be able to relocate their router), and there's still no other 5k option on the market.

Yeah but mine doesn't, so I'm quids in ;)

Nice to hear you have an audio interface working there! Sounds like you do professional audio -- curious what kind of bandwidth needs you're expecting to have?

It's a minor nit, but one reason I prefer Thunderbolt hubs is because they hang directly off the PCI bus.

Historically speaking, with USB the host CPU intermediates all bus traffic. The 'fire' in FireWire (vs e.g. USB2) was how devices could access host memory directly.

It's probably a negligible amount of overhead these days, but my take is, if it's possible to use Thunderbolt and free up CPU cycles for whatever you're doing, why not?

Love to hear opinions from someone who has more recent knowledge on this.

If I'm totally honest, I have no idea what you're talking about :)

I do a lot of audio work for video and composition through Logic using lots of plugins and bits and it just handles it nicely. That's really all I'm bothered about ;)

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