So I'm considering this as a primary display for WFH purposes, today I use a 27" LG 4K monitor with a MacBook at scaled 2560 x 1440 resolution. About 5% of the time, I do also use it with various Windows PCs I have, which makes the Studio Display not optimal.
What should I expect from scaling (downgrade?) going from 4K 27" 2560 x 1440 to this Samsung at 32"?
Asking this crowd will get you opinions that it's complete junk, continuously wobbles like you are computing in a non-stop earthquake, text will be impossible to read, graphics will be terrible and at that nit difference you better be an owl masquerading as a human because you'll need owl or better night vision to see anything.
However, Samsung makes
great screens. Many times in the past when some Apple device had a combination of Samsung and somebody else's screen and there was some yellowing or other issue, the general hope among this crowd was hoping their replacement would get the Samsung screen. We can appreciate Samsung quality when it serves us and/or is directly endorsed by Apple using it in their own devices.
"We" hate this only because Apple has stepped into this general territory. Had Apple not rolled out the new monitor, this would be competing with the Apple-endorsed LG monitor which was fine (too) right up until Apple rolled out their own (and now it's a "wobbly, pile of plastic junk"). It's always the same. If Apple started making handkerchiefs and priced them for- oh say- $20 each, we quickly start rationalizing why those are the best handkerchiefs in the world and all other hankies are inferior garbage.
As a long-term iMac owner and pretty much Apple everything (else), I went ultra-wide Dell recently: 40" screen. I've seen all of the "everything else" bashing since Apple rolled this one out and much of it is simply untrue. Text isn't blurred. Repeat: isn't... as in IS NOT. In fact, text looks as good on this Dell as it did on my old iMac in spite of this Dell having LESS resolution in the vertical and spreading that 5K over 40" diagonal vs. 27". A big slice of us seem to be in Apple marketing or unpaid, closet Apple marketers operating like if this monitor doesn't sell to every possible person wanting a monitor, Apple may go under. It's not 1996 anymore. Apple doesn't need us to do that. Apple will survive & thrive right on to $3 Trillion if no one else buys this one monitor.
My advice: let your order arrive. Hook it up and
judge with your own eyes. From 2560x1440 you'll be getting a big resolution UPGRADE in BOTH dimensions. And for the price- if you liked- you could buy a SECOND one for a 2-monitor setup for about the same price as one of Apple's new monitors.
If it arrives and you don't like it, return it and get something else. I can offer first hand with certainty (and 20:20 vision) that monitors not branded Apple can be quite great monitors too. 4K to 8K pixels jammed into 24"-4X" screens is packing a lot of resolution into a relatively tiny space.
