4k tv / monitors

[Keith Smith]

Hardware specs are in order after seeing 3-48's.  What video card are 
you driving this with.  CPU?  RAM....?

I cannot imagine the number of windows you could possibly have open at 
any one time while being able to see them all at once.



On 2016-06-23 00:08, Michael Butash wrote:
> Likewise, much the same, I was going to go with 40", but a buddy got
> one of the seiki cheap 4k tv's, and it was just too small, odd to say.
>  Standing in front of a 55" seemed too big, I ended up with the 48's
> that I think are just about right with 4k, and curved was nice for the
> desktop.  I could have lived with the 55's I think.
> 
> https://plus.google.com/+MikeButash/posts/GxC8jCzJRBA
> 
> I spread things out as well, and I can still full-screen chrome or
> whatever, zoom in, and read with my aging eyes.  Even with 11520x2160
> pixels, I still end up with clutter piling up at times.  KDE's idle
> windows as transparent is great for this.
> 
> Ubuntu/Unity just sorta barfs and never finishes launching on mine to
> test with compiz the pretty features.
> 
> -mb
> 
> 
> On 06/22/2016 12:10 PM, David Schwartz wrote:
>> 
>> I’ve been using a 39” 4K TV as a monitor with my MacBook Pro for about 
>> 8 months now. (I keep the MBP closed.)
>> 
>> My only complaint is not the monitor, but the fact that my eyesight is 
>> degrading (I’ll be 60 next month) and I can’t read most stuff 
>> displayed at “native” resolution. This is true of the Retina display 
>> on my MBP as well. Younger eyes would probably really love it at 
>> native resolution (ie., much smaller renderings).
>> 
>> My opinion at this point is that 39” is too small for a 4K monitor.
>> 
>> But parallax plus “angle of incidence” that some monitors have (ie, 
>> the effective viewing angle) becomes a problem with larger screens 
>> when you’re sitting a little more than an arm’s-length away.
>> 
>> To be viewed most effectively, the screen really needs to be curved 
>> spherically or parabolically, where the eyeballs are positioned at the 
>> centroid of the curve.
>> 
>> But I have to say, it’s AWESOME to be able to have two or three apps 
>> open in different windows and have them spread out on a large viewing 
>> area without overlapping. It’s basically like having four HD monitors 
>> right there.
>> 
>> -David Schwartz
>> 
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Keith Smith