38" or larger ultrawides?

[wegster]

So I've had an LG 38" 3840x1600 for a few years now in my home office setup and in general, am happy with it. Much better than the 34" it replaced, as the vertical 1600p resolution just works versus the lower 1440p most of the 34"-ers have.

Started a new job, where I'll now need to be in office a few days a week, so just going to pick up another one, but it seems like time has 'stood still.' Yeah, there are a few OLED options that may last a few years at best from what I've seen, and a handful of 40-42" 5k2k which seem to start at astronomical prices.

Meanwhile, it seems the ~$1K-ish 38" LG models are effectively still at the same price, or even more, around $1200.

Am I missing any other options? I saw the cheapie/no-name $400-ish one on US Amazon which has a ton of 'dead or issues after 5-6 months' so no thanks. I expect to keep the display at least 4-5 years. I'm 'ok' buying another LG 38" although at this point, not going to feel thrilled spending $1200 on what's got to be a 5 year old display already.

I'd consider a 42" 5k2k perhaps, although unsure what resolution I'd wind up running it at - I run the LG 38" at native 3840x1600 resolution, and definitely not looking to lose any vertical real estate/resolution.

Anything else out there nowadays worth considering?

Note - no G9 or other crap resolution displays please - 1600p vertical res or higher only.

 

[wegster]

Wow - surprised no one's jumped in here.
The 38" Ultrawide is nearly perfect for productivity IMO - as long as it's 1600p vertical or higher.

After a fair amount more searching, I went with a Dell U4025QW for ~$1500USD. Will have it in a week or so then sort whether or not I can full full res or scale it down slightly to 3840x1660.

 

[NogbadTheBad]

I've had a U4025QW for a few weeks and love it, at 5120 x 2160 the text is a bit tiny, download BetterDisplay and run at 3840 x 1620 @ 120 Hz HIDPI mode on my Mac Studio M4 Max.

 

[Daydog]

I've had a U4025QW for a few weeks and love it, at 5120 x 2160 the text is a bit tiny, download BetterDisplay and run at 3840 x 1620 @ 120 Hz HIDPI mode on my Mac Studio M4 Max.

You Don't need better display to get 3840x1620 @120 Hz on the Dell U4025QW it naturally supports it...

 

[wegster]

It showed up early, and unlike the 'open box' LG 38" I had picked up previously, no issues out of the box. (half of the display was full of horiz lines, not nesc an LG issue but seller issue).

I'm going to give it a go at native resolution for a bit, although I did go into accessibility and bump up the system font size a few clicks (I think to 13pt from default of 10-11pt).

I'm feeling like a 42"-44" UW at 5120x2160 would be the sweet spot for productivity and running full res/no scaling. As I'm not running in a down-scaled resolution, the panel 'feels' similarly to my LG 38" visually. I can certainly tell it's not a retina/HiDPI panel, but should work well for productivity/work. So far I'm not seeing any dead pixels, and the panel seems pretty uniform in brightness, etc. I'm running it via DP at the moment, as that was one of the setups that worked best with my LG and CalDigit TB dock, seems to be limited to 60Hz. Will play around with that later - this is with an MBP M1 Max.

I enabled auto-dimming on initial setup but then disabled it, as it was a bit too dim - need to see if this is adjustable at all. I guess there's some Dell software but unsure I have any desire to install it. Pulling up a few recent pictures it seems to be a bit more saturated and a bit more red vs the LG 38, but we're talking minimal differences IMO.