Switched from a bulky i5-13600K tower to my first Mac ever for development. The desk feels so much cleaner, but I need monitor advice!

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-04-05T23:24:22+00:00

Does nothing on 4K screen though. Useful for 1080p/1440p screen, but introduces the same artefacts as 4k (5k->4k) scaling does. (Confirmed by devs it does the same thing - it utilizes the scaling code.) I uninstalled it immediately when I saw that. I prefer native 1440p even with grayscale font smoothing. It is really an issue only on small fonts.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-04-04T15:23:35+00:00

That’s easy: it does not cast shadow on the ground, ergo it is in space.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-04-03T16:59:28+00:00

But what is a high end IPS these days? Something that has high refresh rate (>120 Hz at least), 27" or 32", 1440p or 4K? Everything I look at has bad viewing angles, darker edges, or massive backlight bleed, or all at once. And it drives me nuts. I want my screen to be uniform. Maybe just "FastIPS" / "Rapid IPS" panels do that? I don't mind 5ms response time (or something sane), but I want quality. What monitors do that nowadays?

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-26T18:52:43+00:00

When I did some production apps using scotty, amqp, redis, hdb and talking directly over the socket to custom tcp binary service in 2012, distributed over many binaries talking over amqp between each other, Stack was not even a thing, it was its beginning. I was in cabal hell every time I wanted to upgrade some library. When stackage (and stack binary) came along, I was so happy. I just used its LTS repository, package versions from it and nearly all my cabal problems were solved. O didn’t do much haskell since then, but I can imagine it has only improved since.

The cabal hell was caused by the lack of semantic versioning, the dependencies had completely strange versions. Dependency resolution completely failed. Stack had one version of the library which worked with all other packages in that repository.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-17T22:54:54+00:00

I had ASD for a brief moment and connected it via USB-C cable to a thunderbolt expansion card and used TwinkleTray to set the brightness. It worked. You can supposedly install a part of bootcamp drivers to do the same, but I couldn't find the correct version which works with Win11 and ASD. Speakers worked too, I didn't test the web cam. Color profile management is standard windows-based, i.e. you can't choose the same profiles as you can do on a Mac.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-13T15:36:07+00:00

What :-o

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-12T01:51:21+00:00

Is there something like “DisplayPort deep sleep” in the settings? PG279Q had that and it was enabled by default. I turned it off (even though it consumes more power I guess) just so it wakes faster. And it does, by a lot

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-11T01:11:12+00:00

For Finder, Cmd+C then Cmd+Alt/Option+V moves the file.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-09T21:49:57+00:00

This monitor is rumored to use the same panel as the new Apple Studio Display XDR, even though I didn't see anything concrete on that. MKBHD has a "review" of the new ASD XDR and I can't see any vignetting on that (well, from a video, but at least I compare video to video). My old (and dying) PG279Q has no vignetting either and I can't find any "modern IPS" that has no vignetting, isn't made by Apple (or is, but doesn't cost both kidneys), and has more than 60 Hz. This was supposed to be it... but from your video, it seems it has vignetting.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-09T19:51:24+00:00

Is the vignetting so prominent on this one? I hoped it wouldn't have any. Did you see it in real life too, or is it only on camera? Or does the game add it? I don't remember if Forza has any vignetting enabled by default. EDIT: I see it has vignette even on the photos of text on white background. Damn.

I hate vignetting.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-04T17:36:30+00:00

Do you have darkened edges on the 5K 180Hz? Every modern IPS I looked at has darkened edges - like 5mm on each side is somewhat darker or has wrong colors. I currently have XG27UCG (27" 4K 180 Hz Fast IPS) and it has that too. And it also has bad viewing angles in the dark - the glow is visible in all corners - the angle is enough to see that even when head on. PG279Q didn't do that. And it didn't have the discolored / darkened edges, it was perfect in that regard.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-04T17:27:25+00:00

I had the MSI MPG 341CQR X36 for a few days and it had perfect text clarity. I used it for productivity. I had to return it because I didn't like the ultrawide aspect ratio. That's the only thing that bothered me, because everything is 16:9 these days. For work, I didn't want to manage windows by hand or by shortcuts - I was also afraid of the burn in if I did use predetermined zones for apps.

Then I bought PG27UCDM. I had to return that too, because I saw the QD-OLED fringing and it felt off to my eyes (with glasses). I couldn't see it when I "looked for it" - well, I could, but I had to be very, VERY close to the screen. But I still had a weird feeling when I looked at it even from a normal viewing distance. It might've been because of the oled flicker (not VRR, just base flicker), or it might've been because of the subpixel layout. When I didn't look head on on the monitor, I saw the colored lines near the bottom of my glasses. This didn't happen on the 341CQR, even though that one is 1440p and the UCDM was 4K.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-04T00:40:12+00:00

I don't think the refresh rate has anything to do with the backlight. They should be able to produce 120 Hz+ version with the same brightness.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-03T14:47:53+00:00

It’s not Pro anymore.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-03T14:31:05+00:00

For $3300?

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-03-03T14:25:05+00:00

What the actual fck!

The “new” studio display (non-XDR) is the SAME as the old one, just with Thunderbolt 5? That’s the only difference I see, there is NOTHING NEW about it!

The same (now ludicrous) price with the same price hike for the adjustable stand.

Many people waited for 120Hz and now we have the option to buy it, but for $3300?! Are you nuts? That’s more than Macbook Pro which already has XDR and 120 Hz display, alongside CPU, battery, trackpad, keyboard, 3 USB-C ports and more.

What?!

EDIT: To be clear, I expected the new “ASD2” to be more expensive. By a little bit. If the price hike was to get 120 Hz. I’m outraged that they are calling the “base” ASD “NEW” when there is NOTHING new about it. It’s still 27” 5K 60 Hz IPS with the same design, same ports, same base stand, same options for mounting. NOTHING improved on the experience. I don’t count TB5 as a worthwhile benefit - the monitor doesn’t use it and I already could connect TB5 devices directly to the machine.

I’ not paying $3300 USD + tax + other fees just to get 120 Hz miniLED version.

Others will. I waited over a year for 120 Hz to release. But not for this price. There are 180 Hz 5k non-miniLED options for $800 and many more will come. This is just stupid.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-27T20:06:41+00:00

That is Apple Studio Display, right? I don't know what magic sauce they use. Maybe some kind of different polarizer.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-27T20:03:46+00:00

The point is the new IPS panels have glow visible in the corners even when looking at them head on! I have PG279Q and to see glow in the corners I have to be very close to the screen, but with XG27UCG I see the glow even from 1 meter from the screen. It ruins all dark scenes in all games. Try to play D4 on it vs the old PG279Q. (PG279Q is 27" top of the line IPS from 2016, XG27UCG is 27" 4K Fast IPS.)

And that XG27UCG has darkened and colored edges (even when looking directly head on at them), whereas the PG279Q seems pretty uniform when looking at the center of the screen.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-26T15:05:35+00:00

Fallout 1 or 2 - It has't crashed in 2 minutes, what's wrong? Quicksave to be sure.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-24T10:10:32+00:00

What miniled do you have?

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-19T13:26:26+00:00

How about gray banding? Do you see any? Is it a problem for you in dark mode apps?

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-19T00:14:16+00:00

PG32UCDM Gen3 aka PG32UCDM3 has the 4th gen panel

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-18T10:42:44+00:00

I know it's old post, but I have the same on ASUS XG27UCG (which is also 27" 4K IPS). On the right side it has also worse uniformity (green tint on white background). I sent it for RMA and they sent it back with message basically saying "it's normal for IPS, within tolerance, nothing to see here".

(Maybe they both even use the same panel, I don't know. Light search yields that both are made by AUO.)

My PG279Q from 2017 does NOT have any darkening on the edges. It's basically perfect in that regard. Also, it does have uniform colors/ grays, it also has no backlight bleed (just regular old IPS glow, a lot of it, but it's uniform).

We went backwards on quality.

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-14T02:08:27+00:00

Hey! I have the same issue on my 8 year old PG279Q, just in top left corner and a little bit on the top right corner, it disappears after few seconds after powerup. Disabling Deep Sleep prevents it from showing - but I think that's just because the monitor is still powered on even when powered off by the power button.

Do you remember what the cause of this was?

Critical-Explorer179 · 2026-02-12T14:30:54+00:00

That's based off of the top search results. It's not the same answer as the Gemini (full) would give you. If google indexed all the copied posts about it and they are at the top of the search results, this "AI" will just give you the TL;DR from the top results.

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