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mini paired with Hauwei's new 4.5K 3:2 monitor = iMac killer?

theluggage: Sounds like a trade-off between mac and windows scaling methods. Windows needs the cooperation of individual applications to scale without penalty while mac os scales with a small (but barely perceptible thanks to HiDPI dithering, oversampling?) penalty independent of the individual application ability to handle scaling, right?
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Didn’t they use less-than-grade A panels to begin with? The Iiyama I briefly played with had lots of stuck pixels.
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Yep - I went through several Planars and it was obvious to me that the entire business model for them was trying to make a buck off sticking sub Grade-A panels into their custom enclosure.

Every unit had tons of stuck pixels, ghosting and any other manner of issue that would immediately get it returned if it was in an iMac
 
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mrkapqa said:
i-d be okay with a 20inch 2048x1536 monitor, thanks.
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The IBM T210 is exactly that. :) It was released in 2001 (!).

turbineseaplane said:
Yep - I went through several Planars and it was obvious to me that the entire business model for them was trying to make a buck off sticking sub Grade-A panels into their custom enclosure.
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I love the idea of making use of things that would otherwise be discarded but I can't stand stuck pixels on monitors. With that being said, I still had quite a bit of fun with my Iiyama for the few days I've had it. Snow Leopard at 4088×2880 anyone? :D

marstan said:
And to what extent does everything generally behave well on Windows?
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Well, the apps I use most frequently on my Windows 10 (work) laptop (Office 365, Firefox, Atom, RStudio, Python) behave well with scaling. YMMV. :)
 
Does anyone notice a bit of cursor lag? It's not too much that bothers me, but was just wondering if there's a way to fix it?

It seems through USB-C is doing 30hz instead of 60hz. Any idea on how to get it to be 60hz?
 
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Grolubao said:
Does anyone notice a bit of cursor lag? It's not too much that bothers me, but was just wondering if there's a way to fix it?
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Is your Mac (which one?) running the MateView at 60 Hz refresh? How is it connected?

If you’re using its HDMI 2.0 input, the MateView only runs at 50 Hz which causes the cursor to be laggy.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Is your Mac (which one?) running the MateView at 60 Hz refresh? How is it connected?

If you’re using the HDMI input the MateView only runs at 50 Hz which causes the cursor to be laggy.
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It seems it's running at 30hz

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Looks good. Try the following: On the “Custom Resolutions” tab, click + to add a mode (use CVT-RB and simplified settings), specifying 3840 pixels, 2560 lines and 57 Hz refresh. Save and click “Install immediately”.
If that mode now shows up as “active”, try selecting 57 Hz refresh from the Display preference pane.
If it shows up as invalid, reboot. If it’s still not working, modify the mode, reducing refresh to 56 Hz. Try again.
 
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Amethyst1 said:
Looks good. Try the following: On the “Custom Resolutions” tab, click + to add a mode (use CVT-RB and simplified settings), specifying 3840 pixels, 2560 lines and 57 Hz refresh. Save and click “Install immediately”.
If that mode now shows up as “active”, try selecting 57 Hz refresh from the Display preference pane.
If it shows up as invalid, reboot. If it’s still not working, modify the mode, reducing refresh to 56 Hz. Try again.
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All were invalid even after the reboot. The best I could do was 1920x1280 @ 50.94Hz

and even so, it is still actually 30Hz
 
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