I have a M2 MacBook Pro for occasional light productivity (web) work and photo editing.
Wasn't planning on this but I just thought this display is super weird and since I had no other type-C capable display, I decided to give it a try.
Meet the LG28MQ780
This display is intended to be used in "portrait", where the resolution and size would be equal to 2x 2560x1440 displays stacked. I wasn't ever looking for heavy multi-tasking on my MacBook (hence I didn't get the 14") I'll just be on one app at a time so I rotated it on the side, it's still almost square but it's 9:8, so like super tall productivity display.
This is a top quality IPS panel but that's all it is, there's no MiniLED, no OLED, so despite the gimmicky HDR mode included, this is a SDR display only suitable for SDR content.
Since websites need to be optimized for both desktop and mobile, almost none of them will go the full width of a 16:9 screen anyway, if you try to full screen they just stop at ~square format, which means this display shows most websites actually full screen, without bars on the sides. Just writing this post on it is fantastic, I can see so much of the post without scrolling the text window within the webpage which is just stupid.
It's also better than you'd think for photo editing, in Lightroom on a 16:9 display, the photo viewing space is actually much wider than your standard 3:2 photo, unless you hide both the top and bottom bars, which is inconvenient because the film strip on the bottom bar. And if you're editing a portrait photo, it will be really really small. On this display in "landscape", the photo viewing area is basically square, that means both portrait and landscape photos will be the same size. Again, I think it's overall better than 16:9 or even 16:10
So ironically, this supposed super multi-task display is actually better for single tasking. Maybe if they could come out with a 32" dual 4k model then it would actually have enough space and pixels for hard core multi tasking.
There's a built-in speaker but it's horrible as expected, you'd still want a Studio Display if you want speakers in your display. There's auto-brightness but it's also terrible because it's way too bright with no way to adjust it.
I saw myths on the internet about how its supposedly incompatible with MacOS but I found them to be false.
There are clearly HiDPI scaled settings, all you need is scroll down like 2 lines to see them, but some people were complaining nonsense, that text is either blurry or too small.
As for the color situation, you need a slight bit of technical knowledge but still easily solved. You just set the hardware to its P3 profile, and apply the P3 profile in system settings. The default setting appears to be designed for sRGB so it will look oversaturated, unless you set the hardware OSD also to sRGB. But you're using MacOS so you'd use P3, obviously. Also the default contrast value of 70 skews the correct gamma curve so you need to set that to 50.
Maybe it will also be great for emulating old games, let me have a try...
Wasn't planning on this but I just thought this display is super weird and since I had no other type-C capable display, I decided to give it a try.
Meet the LG28MQ780
This display is intended to be used in "portrait", where the resolution and size would be equal to 2x 2560x1440 displays stacked. I wasn't ever looking for heavy multi-tasking on my MacBook (hence I didn't get the 14") I'll just be on one app at a time so I rotated it on the side, it's still almost square but it's 9:8, so like super tall productivity display.
This is a top quality IPS panel but that's all it is, there's no MiniLED, no OLED, so despite the gimmicky HDR mode included, this is a SDR display only suitable for SDR content.
Since websites need to be optimized for both desktop and mobile, almost none of them will go the full width of a 16:9 screen anyway, if you try to full screen they just stop at ~square format, which means this display shows most websites actually full screen, without bars on the sides. Just writing this post on it is fantastic, I can see so much of the post without scrolling the text window within the webpage which is just stupid.
It's also better than you'd think for photo editing, in Lightroom on a 16:9 display, the photo viewing space is actually much wider than your standard 3:2 photo, unless you hide both the top and bottom bars, which is inconvenient because the film strip on the bottom bar. And if you're editing a portrait photo, it will be really really small. On this display in "landscape", the photo viewing area is basically square, that means both portrait and landscape photos will be the same size. Again, I think it's overall better than 16:9 or even 16:10
So ironically, this supposed super multi-task display is actually better for single tasking. Maybe if they could come out with a 32" dual 4k model then it would actually have enough space and pixels for hard core multi tasking.
There's a built-in speaker but it's horrible as expected, you'd still want a Studio Display if you want speakers in your display. There's auto-brightness but it's also terrible because it's way too bright with no way to adjust it.
I saw myths on the internet about how its supposedly incompatible with MacOS but I found them to be false.
There are clearly HiDPI scaled settings, all you need is scroll down like 2 lines to see them, but some people were complaining nonsense, that text is either blurry or too small.
As for the color situation, you need a slight bit of technical knowledge but still easily solved. You just set the hardware to its P3 profile, and apply the P3 profile in system settings. The default setting appears to be designed for sRGB so it will look oversaturated, unless you set the hardware OSD also to sRGB. But you're using MacOS so you'd use P3, obviously. Also the default contrast value of 70 skews the correct gamma curve so you need to set that to 50.
Maybe it will also be great for emulating old games, let me have a try...
