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LG 4K First Impressions

I really wish they made a 24" version. This one is too small and the 5K costs too much and is not something my boss would ever approve!
 
sguser said:
Received my 4K today. I love it. The screen is great and the monitor not ugly as some so called journalists claim it to be.
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What machine are you using to drive it? Have you noticed any issues with dropped frames when pushing it, as commented in the arstechnica review of the 13" non touch bar MBP?
 
mwalter said:
What machine are you using to drive it? Have you noticed any issues with dropped frames when pushing it, as commented in the arstechnica review of the 13" non touch bar MBP?
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13'' TB i7. I use the monitor for work and don't have time for counting frames. For my purposes the monitor works just fine. Still happy with it it after few days of use.
 
sguser said:
13'' TB i7. I use the monitor for work and don't have time for counting frames. For my purposes the monitor works just fine. Still happy with it it after few days of use.
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Thanks. I wasn't suggesting that you count them, just asking whether you've noticed any visual sluggishness or artifacts.
 
Heres a pic of mine mounted on an AmazonBasic arm. Love this setup-monitor is easy to swing around and move to different positions.
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Has anyone had any problems with theirs yet?

So far I've had two delivered with dead pixels (initial order and replacement) and the third one I've received seems to be exhibiting some sort of 'colour snow' across the whole screen. I'm starting to feel like the quality control isn't great.
 
Just received mine and hooked it up to Intel NUC

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html

I'm using Ubuntu 16.10 and it booted right up and had no issues. Will report back after a few days with it. So far the screen/picture is absolutely gorgeous, I've so waited so long for 21" 4K with glossy. Yea no more matte :) Please feel free to ask any question but might be a few days before I get to them. Happy Thanksgiving to all US peeps, and the same to everyone else sans the official holiday.
 
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I stopped by my local Apple store this afternoon to see if they had any on display. They did not - however, they did have one that I could buy - so I did! Ha.

I'm running it with the base model 13" MBP with touch bar. All seems to be well so far!
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gr2020 said:
I stopped by my local Apple store this afternoon to see if they had any on display. They did not - however, they did have one that I could buy - so I did! Ha.

I'm running it with the base model 13" MBP with touch bar. All seems to be well so far!
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A couple of things based on earlier questions I just noticed in this thread:

- the sound quality from the speakers is ok, not great. In terms of volume, they will play loudly - but they are worse in both bass and treble as compared to a 5k iMac. I'm not terribly bothered myself, as I use headphones for music at my desk, but if you like speakers you might not love these.

- I'm not seeing any frame skipping and such, although I'm not sure what to run to see it. I'm running it side by side with the MBP display, not in clamshell mode at the moment. I tried playing a 4k video on it, full screen, from youtube - looked great, and the total CPU usage on my system while it was playing was around 12% iirc.
 
Two more videos popped up in the last days…

Apple Insider review of the 4K

MKBHD unboxing of a 5K

I can't wait for mine… anyone from Europe got one already?
 
Updated information from the the other day. I currently have a intel NUC using Ubuntu 16.10 ( kernel 4.9rc6 )

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/nuc-kit-nuc6i7kyk-features-configurations.html

connected via USB-C

Working:
  • 3840 × 2160 @ 60 Hhz ( looks great but I can tell it's not 1:1 pixel mapping )
  • Can only get 4096 x 2304 @ 30 Hhz ( still trying other frequencies )
    I think resolution could be linux intel driver issue and will follow up with them.
  • USB audio and volume adjustment working.
Non working/issues:
  • When monitor goes to sleep, is does not come back on unless USB-C is unplugged and plugged back in.
  • Of course no brightness control. ( hacking at acdcontrol ) http://acdcontrol.sourceforge.net/ have it recognizing monitor but still hacking at getting brightness information from display. Any help would be great :)
I will install Windows 10 on it in the next few days and see how that goes. Will return.
 
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Just read that the USB-C ports are only USB 2.0 speeds, that is really disappointing. My main question was whether or not these could be daisy chained (so one 4k to another with a single cable to the macbook, but given the port speed I highly doubt it.)

I already own a LG 27UD88-W (27" 4k monitor with USB-C input, designed for the 12" MacBook originally) and other than the color accuracy I don't really see the point in this monitor - the UD88 has 2 USB 3.0 speed ports (full size usb-a) plus two other inputs if you have different devices to plug into it. My only complaint is that it only has one USB-C port so it can't daisy chain two monitors.
 
jclardy said:
Just read that the USB-C ports are only USB 2.0 speeds, that is really disappointing. My main question was whether or not these could be daisy chained (so one 4k to another with a single cable to the macbook, but given the port speed I highly doubt it.)

I already own a LG 27UD88-W (27" 4k monitor with USB-C input, designed for the 12" MacBook originally) and other than the color accuracy I don't really see the point in this monitor - the UD88 has 2 USB 3.0 speed ports (full size usb-a) plus two other inputs if you have different devices to plug into it. My only complaint is that it only has one USB-C port so it can't daisy chain two monitors.
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It's glossy and full macOS integration. :) It's the only one out there that is. Do not want to start debate but have Dell P2415Q, riMac 5k and now this 4k. For me HiDPI applications, matte just doesn't cut it. This monitor completely blows the Dell P2415Q's picture away because of screen coating. I understand there are applications matte must be used, but there really should be a few glossy options other than this out there. My 2 cents.
 
Ugh, just got this hoping to use it as a secondary monitor with my Late 2015 27" iMac using this dongle, which claims to be bidirectional, but it doesn't detect the display. It works just fine with my 13" Touchbar rMBP but that's not what I want to use it with ... not even a dongle can save me from this hell!
 
RobinInOR said:
Heres a pic of mine mounted on an AmazonBasic arm. Love this setup-monitor is easy to swing around and move to different positions.
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Hi Robin, I'm curious to see what it would look like to have side-by-side browser windows on the 21". Is it reasonable to work with a document on one side and a web page on the other split down the middle?
 
@cityboy-100 I finally got my LG monitor delivered yesterday and used it for web development for a couple of hours already. Using a text editor and a browser window side by side works totally fine in the "looks like" 2304x1296 or 2560x1440 resolutions. Both look perfectly sharp and even the 2560 one doesn't even look too small. I ran the 2304 one most of the time though as it matches the default MBP scaling (1440 on the 13"). The LG's default is 2048x1152, which I don't like so much at my preferred viewing distance. It was a nice first day with it, really like it so far.
 
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Hi Robin, I'm curious to see what it would look like to have side-by-side browser windows on the 21". Is it reasonable to work with a document on one side and a web page on the other split down the middle?
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I'll take a pic when I get home from work - I'll pull up a word doc and a website and see if I can take a pic that will show you enuf info. What's nice is I can move the monitor really close if I get eye strain and need it closer.
 
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Here's a pic of a Word doc along side Macrumors. Ive left the resolution alone, so the LG is at default 4096x2304. Maybe you can tell actual size by seeing how many words are on each line, each window is over 8" wide. I didn't adjust the color, I'm in a dark room and the brightness is set below 50%. I'd find it very easy to work with two windows side by side. And you've also still got the laptop display unless you're going clamshell.
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RobinInOR said:
Here's a pic of a Word doc along side Macrumors. Ive left the resolution alone, so the LG is at default 4096x2304. Maybe you can tell actual size by seeing how many words are on each line, each window is over 8" wide. I didn't adjust the color, I'm in a dark room and the brightness is set below 50%. I'd find it very easy to work with two windows side by side. And you've also still got the laptop display unless you're going clamshell.
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Thank you @RobinInOR, this is exactly what I was looking for. :)
 
swrobel said:
Ugh, just got this hoping to use it as a secondary monitor with my Late 2015 27" iMac using this dongle, which claims to be bidirectional, but it doesn't detect the display. It works just fine with my 13" Touchbar rMBP but that's not what I want to use it with ... not even a dongle can save me from this hell!
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Wait, an Apple chat support person told me last week the Ultrafine 4k should work with a 5k iMac (Late 2014) using the Thunderbolt 2->3 dongle. You're saying it doesn't work at all? I'm about to order one for this very purpose.
 
edrijver said:
Wait, an Apple chat support person told me last week the Ultrafine 4k should work with a 5k iMac (Late 2014) using the Thunderbolt 2->3 dongle. You're saying it doesn't work at all? I'm about to order one for this very purpose.
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Here's apple's authoritative document on this subject: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587

I do not think that the UltraFine will work with that machine and the store employee is incorrect.
 
For those in the UK, I ordered 2 monitors on the 30 Nov with delivery estimated 1-15 Feb.
They arrived next day delivery 1st Dec. o_O
 
Does these monitors look like Retina? What's maximum refresh rate in Hz?

My issue as it stands is that I have a mid 2012 15" rMBP, which I've been told will only run 4K at 30Hz. But my two 1080p monitors, although have a very fast 144Hz refresh, look bad compared to the Retina display on my MacBook. Plus I know the colours are inaccurate but I really don't want to buy a £200 colour calibrator I'll only need once and I'm not convinced it would make much of a difference.

I'm looking to sell these monitors, and some other stuff, in order to fund a 4K display. But I'm not sure I'd want something as small as 21.5" and I don't know if I could cope with running the display at 30Hz having been used to 144Hz for so long. If this partnership between Apple and LG is a colour accurate monitor that looks as good as Retina, then maybe I could cope with the size.

I can't afford to buy a new MacBook so these are really my only options. Is a 4K monitor going to be worth the money for my use case?
 
I took a chance on the 4K but had to return it.
Nice matte black finish and felt very solid - just couldn't get it to work with the cables that the
" Apple rep " told me would work.
1 - Bad info when ordering.
2 - LG was no help - the paperwork it shipped with referred to a user manual download which
Was not available.
3 - Apple paid for the return shipping but wasted both my time and theirs.
4 - New product but when you release a product for sale the support should be in place.
5 - When I called support they referred me to LG.
So I was "stuck in the middle".
 
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