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User connects a premium low market share monitor not designed for gaming or for a PC really, despite some software supplied to the vendor, to a gaming PC and then complains about how difficult it is even though it eventually all works anyway.

I don't get these articles or why you'd even buy one of these monitors for this case, even though I own one. I'd grab a random 144Hz 4k jobby instead. But I'm not a fan of punching myself in the balls over and over again for the hell of it.

So far with this monitor I've read pages of whining from people who shouldn't have bought it or didn't buy it. Everyone who should have bought it and did buy it seems quite happy. I know I am!

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Back when the Thunderbolt display was a couple years old, I got it in my head that I wanted a very beautiful monitor with at least a casual gamer compatible response time.

When all was said and done, the monitor I found turned out to have similar specs to the Thunderbolt display. Color reproduction, pixel response rates. Basically the same panel and driver. It was $100 cheaper than the Thunderbolt display, at the outside. But made of plastic. So I said fuck it, $100 for an aluminum exterior isn't that crazy, and I can pick it up today instead of dealing with UPS.

I just unplugged that monitor a couple months ago, and I keep trying to figure out if I can squeeze it back on my desk by rearranging some things.

That’s some good longevity there. Hope this one lasts as long

I wanted to replace it over a year ago but it was the last monitor I had with a camera, it was serving to daisychain for an old Thunderbolt2 laptop that to be honest I never plug in anymore, and with the pandemic, none of the big names had really produced anything new in a year.

So it was either get the big brother of my primary display (larger but lower ppi), or wait. Last fall they bumped that monitor to... I want to say better speakers and a uniform bezel (old model was fat at the bottom).

I really miss the speakers in the Thunderbolt display. Holy hell are people shipping bad speakers in some otherwise excellent monitors. I'm back to using external ones and dealing with the EM interference.

I didn't buy it, but personally I would get it just for the design.

Well you can't see much of it from the front so I'm not sure what the point is of doing that. I bought it because it's the only 27" 5k panel you can actually get that has any realistic chance of vendor support anywhere in the UK and will charge my laptop.

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