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CES 2026: Dell Unveils World's First 52-Inch 6K Thunderbolt Display

Station Grey said:
As a designer/photographer, I'd love something like this but with a high pixel density. Imagine I'll be waiting a long time.

No interest at all in all the ports though. I like a dock under the desk and a single cable going to the monitor. The amount of mucky muck and cables this thing can generate would be horrifying!
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You're looking at 8k displays then, good luck driving more than 1 monitor smoothly
 
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Is there a typo in the announcement - it states this can go to 120 Hz but also uses Thunderbolt 4. I thought Thunderbolt 5 was needed to get the bandwidth for 6k120?

Also, 6k at this screen size is the same as 1440p/QHD on a 27" display, so a long way away from retina levels.
 
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xraydoc said:
Oh, I know. For a Mac user, 129 PPI is awful. I got downvoted on Reddit for saying so. For a PC user though, I guess 129 PPI is awesome 🤷‍♂️
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Very low bar in the PC world haha
I can't do anything below 5k nowadays.
Even my dual 4k 27"s hurt my eyes.
 
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xraydoc said:
This is an office/productivity display, not a gaming display. If I used an OLED display on my work PC, I'd have major, major burn-in issues since my most used apps sit in one place on-screen with fixed menu/control bars and such for hours and hours each day.
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oled burn-in fears are overrated. it's the same people who talk about limited flash memory r/w cycles beating that drum. I've got oled screens from 2016 that still look fantastic despite high use.
 
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Unfortunately if you buy a monitor with PPI totally unsuitable for macOS (due to the fact Apple removed subpixel text rendering in 2018) then you're just signing up for having to mess about with kludges and workarounds. You can't just hope the mismatch goes away.
 
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frou said:
Unfortunately if you buy a monitor with PPI totally unsuitable for macOS (due to the fact Apple removed subpixel text rendering in 2018) then you're just signing up for having to mess about with kludges and workarounds. You can't just hope the mismatch goes away.
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BetterDisplay fixes it quick and easily. I run my 4k monitor in 1440p (I think; I'm not at home) and it makes everything crisp and properly scaled.

github.com

GitHub - waydabber/BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!

Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more! - waydabber/BetterDisplay
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minik said:
That's great although I'm not fond of their design and build quality. I'm all for one larger monitor over two or even triple monitors in the office environment.
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By "in the office environment" I am guessing that you mean in a single room(s) with multiple workstations in each room. Is your preference "for one larger monitor over two or even triple monitors" because of the way multiple display setups make a multi-workstation office "look?" Or is it because multiple displays consume more physical space for similar pixel count?

Personally I have no opinion on the look of multi-workstation offices. However in my one-person office I have found multiple 4K display setups to provide big benefits in flexibility. A) flexibility in setup and upgrading. But more importantly B) flexibility in setting different displays to different resolutions to suit optimizing different apps. And a side benefit C) is that an individual display can be zoomed while others remain unchanged.
 
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xraydoc said:
This is an office/productivity display, not a gaming display. If I used an OLED display on my work PC, I'd have major, major burn-in issues since my most used apps sit in one place on-screen with fixed menu/control bars and such for hours and hours each day.
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OLEDs have mitigation for that - they shift pixels over about 10 to 20 pixels every few minutes - I have been using a 48" Oled for 4 years and have just moved on to 55"... an C3 LG with 5 year Warranty that cost £600 during the sales -

The old one hd I had a tiny bit of burn in on one place... the Top right Spotlight icon and Volume.

Obviously it's only 4k over this things 6k.
 
whwang said:
Why not 8K? 52" can be a viable alternative to two 32", but a resolution of 6K is bit too low. If we require it to have the same pixel density as Apple's 27" 5K, then 52" should have almost 10K.
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Seems like they cheaped out a bit on it. Possibly to introduce a more premium version I’m not sure. For 8K 120Hz they’d need DisplayPort 2.1, they went with version 1.4, along with the old version of Thunderbolt it makes me wonder if there’s a new version in the works that’s higher specs.
 
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