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I have two 32" 4K monitors on my M4 mini and find the text crisp for me. I would be after 5K or 6K for work space not because of text clarity. However that's just me I get everyone has different standards.

It should also be noted I'm pushing 50 and don't have the worlds greatest eyesight....
 
I have two 32" 4K monitors on my M4 mini and find the text crisp for me. I would be after 5K or 6K for work space not because of text clarity. However that's just me I get everyone has different standards.

It should also be noted I'm pushing 50 and don't have the worlds greatest eyesight....
That's perfectly fine. A colleague of mine also has two 32" Full HD monitors (ViewSonic VX3276-MHD-3) at home and is happy with them, but he doesn't realize that some people have higher expectations when it comes to screen precision.

Counter question: Have you ever worked on a 220 PPI monitor for a long period of time?
 
All of these are 16:9 or worse. They should make 16:10 or 3:2 monitors. Actually, I think that 16:11 would be the sweet spot for me.
 
That's perfectly fine. A colleague of mine also has two 32" Full HD monitors (ViewSonic VX3276-MHD-3) at home and is happy with them, but he doesn't realize that some people have higher expectations when it comes to screen precision.

Counter question: Have you ever worked on a 220 PPI monitor for a long period of time?

Not that I recall, the highest PPI on a computer would be my 16" M1 Macbook Pro and my 16" Asus 3K display oled laptop.
 
All of these are 16:9 or worse. They should make 16:10 or 3:2 monitors. Actually, I think that 16:11 would be the sweet spot for me.
The press release says this about the 52-inch: "expansive 12:9 panoramic view". So that's 4:3! (Yeah it's a typo, kind of embarrassing for them.)
 
The press release says this about the 52-inch: "expansive 12:9 panoramic view". So that's 4:3! (Yeah it's a typo, kind of embarrassing for them.)
It’s a typo, that monitor is actually 21:9. Oh, you already wrote that, nevermind.
 
Exactly, people who aren't very familiar with monitors tend to naively assume that a monitor is a 5K monitor as soon as the horizontal resolution exceeds 5,000 pixels.
Not sure that means they aren't very familiar with monitors, considering that is pretty much the industry standard definition of a 5k monitor.

Then we'll soon have 10k/12k monitors with resolutions of 10,240 x 2160. What nonsense. Think about the definitions you're clinging to!
If such a monitor proves useful to people, why should you care whether the industry refers to it as a "10k" monitor?

The author of your frequently referenced wiki article will soon realize that this definition is not helpful unless other parameters are mentioned or the PPI value is simply stated.
For most people who live outside of the Apple bubble, PPI is a far less useful measure than resolution, size, or aspect ratio (even though those three things together are what end up defining PPI). For many, many people, a 5k2k 120Hz wide screen monitor with a 160PPI is much more useful than a 27" 16:9 "Retina" display.

Anyone who fails to understand this has immediately disqualified themselves from participating in discussions about high-resolution displays!
Okay Tim. 👍
 
If you hear/read 5K, you expect 5120x2880 pixels.
Speak for yourself. That's what you think because that's how Apple designed their monitors and that's what Apple's advertising has taught you to think.

So yes, > 27“ 16:9 displays are still 5K displays, no matter the PPI. But no, ultrawide displays with 5120 pixels horizontally but < 2880 pixels vertically are not real 5K displays.
They are real 5k displays just like both Cavendish and Plantain bananas are real bananas.
 
Any 5K2K widescreen monitor will only have a vertical resolution of 1080p if used in MacOS Retina™ mode.
Which isn’t practical for workflow reasons.
So, because Apple is lazy/incompetent/both in their OS design, the industry has to adjust their definition of what a 5k monitor is? JFC.
 
Speak for yourself. That's what you think because that's how Apple designed their monitors and that's what Apple's advertising has taught you to think.

Huh? This has nothing to do with Apple at all. 99% of all displays are in a 16:9 ratio, so the industry standard for a 5K display is 5120 x 2880.
 
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