Benq announces the rd280u a 28inch 4k monitor
in 3:2 resolution designed for coding. IQfy has been begging for a monitor like this for years, so all the replies to this thread will be complaining and calling it shit.
MSRP is $599.
Since its a 3:2 monitor 28” is bigger then it sounds.
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u/buy.html
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>designed for coding
lmao moronic gimmick
Frick the gimmick it's a new 3:2 aspect ratio monitor. That's awesome
>it's a new 3:2 aspect ratio monitor
moronic gimmick
thanks for playing your part
The extra height is nice.
>B ringing Enjoyment N Quality to life
I believe them
Is that what benq stands for?
turn your normal 4K monitor sideways, thats the monitor for coding, newbie
The listing for the same monitor with a more fancy arm has all the actual ad copy on it.
https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280ua.html
(bigger than, not "then")
A 3/2 monitor, AT LAST!!!!!!!!
Too bad they don't make a lower resolution less expensive model.
I guess a 3/2 28'' it's about the size of a 16/9 24'' but taller, is it?
>Too bad they don't make a lower resolution less expensive model.
there's a cheaper 24'' model which I find much more suitable for programming tbf
One day it'll be mine!
>antiglare
>consumes as much power as a big crt
AHAHAHAHAHAHA
>Too bad they don't make a lower resolution less expensive model.
i5-2500k sperg spotted
No, I'm just poor and don't especially need 4K.
This is pretty neato
Benq make decent gear
Is this ips with decent colour accuracy?
IPS, 350nits, (shitty) hdr 400, 95% p3 color gamut
Pretty good. Hdr without local dimming is a meme anywah. Would be better if it was sub 450 but I guess it's a niche form factor
>Pretty good. Hdr without local dimming is a meme anywah. Would be better if it was sub 450 but I guess it's a niche form factor
I thought the price was a bit high but i took a quick look at dell and their 27in 4k monitor with all the same usb c hub and charging shit is basically the same price.
Not that dell makes cheap monitors but it does seem to be an average price for similarly speced stuff.
That max power consumption figure includes the monitor providing 90w of usb pd charging to a connected device.
antiglare still makes it a no sell
i want glossy
Why don't you buy a mirror then if you want to look at your own face so much
i have the next best thing, a crt with scraped of anti reflection.
if you thought crts were glossy you have never seen one with the anti glare removed
I've had enough crt tvs that never had any anti-reflection to begin with, thank you
and you didnt think that rocks?
Like I said, if I wanted to look at myself I'd use a mirror. When I'm using a monitor I need to see what's on it, not something else.
id take my reflection of bad colors any day.
matte just doesnt look right
>4k
>not even 4,000 pixels in length
anyways i already have a 3k 3:2 monitor
>i already have a 3k 3:2 monitor
Desktop?
>hurr I need a special small monitor to code
Just use a laptop, morons
It's nit about the coding meme its about the aspect ratio
Probably the same panel as my Huawei Mateview. I frickingoce that monitor. I also have an LG dualup meme. I love it also. Tall monitors for life. Kill all gamers.
>Probably the same panel as my Huawei Mateview
Yeah looks like it based on the specs
100% same panel.
Same size and everything
>60hz
directly to the trash
Frick gaymen. This is a working man's monitor and it looks perfect .
>gaymen
it's hard to go back to 60hz specially for desktop usage, frick gaymes
I'd rather get this one.
But that's just two monitors with a bezel in-between them
except its not?
It is thoughever
Look I legitimately have the DualUp and the Mateview memes. Both are excellent; you won't regret the purchase either way, but the Mateview's aspect ratio and size is slightly better overall, so it is my center monitor. Color wise and IPS-quality-wise, the LG dualup wins, but it's marginal. I honestly expect this Benq to be better than Huawei since the backlight seems not totally uniform around the edges. I trust BenQ to do a better job than Huawei too.
I have one of these and still want the BenQ... shit, I might even buy two!
Ok, I just ordered one (for now!) to check it out, says it'll be here on the 24th.
I don't code, so forgiveness requested.
Why would coding need 4k?
My limited knowledge suggests there would shitloads of teeny tiny code that would fit the 28 inches. But isn't it so small as to be unreadable? (I do realize adjust to 2k or whatever but that kind of defeats the purpose of having a 4k...)
The idea is that you have a very high ppi monitor and use text scaling to increase the font size. Then you have extremely sharp clear text
That's pretty obvious I guess. Seems kind of... opulent imho (yeah, poor gay with old hardware)
What's the advantage of 3:2 over 4:3? The latter at least is compatible with older SD content.
3:2 gives you the benefits of a wider screen without the drawbacks of less vertical screen space.
>Legacy 4:3 content
Oh you are some kinda neet or neckbeard luddite, this isnt made for you
I got a Benq monitor about 2 months ago and it had banding issues all over
Never buying Benq
If there's banding it's probably whatever panel BenQ used for that SKU (most likely AUO). It's foolish to discount any monitor seller when 95% of them don't even manufacture what they offer.
>$600
yeah no, frick you
i guess you haven't bought any electronics in the last 4 years, everything is expensive now
That's a fairly okay price though.
It's a niche product from a trusted monitor brand (not domestic chinkshit)
>60hz
It hurts so bad bros. I get there’s no reason for it to be 120/144hz because it’s a productivity monitor, but I find a minimum of 120hz to be necessary. Are there any monitors with alternative aspect ratios that are 120hz+ and 4k? I don’t even play games I just like the high refresh rate.
No. It's only 16/9 now or even wider. Even 16/10 is dead. 🙁
3/2 is so much more confy for everything though.
>60fps 400 nits
>trying to hype the programmers
>overpriced ugly e-junk
why is it so UGLY?
>why is it so UGLY?
As far as monitors go, that's basic looking. It could be worse, it could look like a Samsung or a gaming monitor.
because its not a sexy crt with a fat ass
Which one looks best IQfy
the Huawei is cleaner
The Huawei. But it isn’t available in my country. So it loses by default.
Top one is classy, but I don't care about the look, I care more about which one has the features I need.
If only it were 5k. Or 8k. Otherwise 60hz is not okay for me. 4k @ 27" will be huge fat obvious pixels. Need sharper.
I feel like these days screens are big enough with high enough resolution that you don't need this anymore. Aspect ratio should be limited by your field of view and nothing else.
Back in the day resolution was expensive, so you'd be able to fit one window on your screen, and you'd want to make the aspect ratio as efficient as possible for displaying that window. A widescreen monitor would genuinely sacrifice vertical space for a wider image, and it'd be terrible for coding. Nowadays? You don't have to "sacrifice" anything; if you don't have enough vertical space on a widescreen monitor, just buy a bigger/taller one. You'll get all the vertical space you need, but with extra space on the sides.
The limiting factor these days is just how far you want to stretch your neck while looking at a giant display located as close as you can comfortably bear. And the reality is that it's much easier to shift your neck side to side, or even your torso or even swivel your chair, than it is to strain your neck up and down; you can't sustain constantly tilting your head up and down without tiring it out and getting neck pain eventually. This means that vertical maximum size is more limited than horizontal maximum size.
As a consequence, if you just get a monitor big enough to fill your comfortable vertical field of view (i.e. as big as possible in your FOV without requiring you to uncomfortably tilt your neck up or down), and then it's a narrow aspect ratio, you'll just be cutting off horizontal space. Instead, if you filled your horizontal FOV to the limits of comfort, you'd end up with something widescreen or even ultrawide.
4:3 or even 3:2 made sense when you had to compromise on pixels; now we can afford to fill our entire FOV to within the limits of neck comfort, so there's no reason not to do it both ways.
4k ultrawides are the future IMO; unfortunately they're a bit expensive right now (1440p is the affordable resolution) but it'll come down eventually.
Also, I should add, the horizontal space can be used even for coding - having at least two text files open side by side, without either of them being cramped, is very comfy. Having a terminal or two also open on the side is comfier. Having a chat client, or a browser window with docs, also all on the side is also even comfier.
On pic related for example
, what you'd really do with the widescreen is have it same vertical size as the 3:2 (rather than artificially making it shorter to make it look "cut off" as a marketing trick), and just have two code tabs open side by side. Whereas on the 3:2, you can't comfortably have more than one open. It's just cutting off the sides for no reason.
It's the opposite. The taller a monitors aspect ratio, the more text/emails/tweets/whatever content. Wide monitors are not suitable for more productivity tasks. My hats go off to BenQ for realizing this. LG dualup also understands this. Frick gaymen; I have fricking work to do *uses it to view more posts in a thread instead of working*
Why 60hz? I wasn't expecting 120hz+, but 75hz or 90hz would have been nice
Because this is for fricking WORK. How is that so hard to understand. If 60hz is causing you issues with work related shit, then you almost certainly have horrible autism. On phones it's way more important because there's less info on the screen at a time, causing way more scrolling to be needed to consume the document/text/email/tweet/whatever
Moving windows, scrolling, even writing text on a 60hz monitor feels wildly sluggish and I never understood why computing felt like it had gone backwards and less 'instant' to my brain until I updated my 'work monitor' to at least 144hz with a 1000hz mouse. It took all this just to match the feeling of instantaneous smooth input or old CRTs and an analogue mouse. Finally, computing feels good again.
Yeah, 75hz should be the bare minimum on most 1080p and 1440p monitors now, but they seem to keep the budget 4k panels on 60hz
it was in 2004 lmao
all of my ancient 5:4s support 75hz
i guess because people moving from crts usually used atleast 75
The human eye can't see more than around 50hz, anyone who thinks otherwise is deluding themselves worse than a troony
>designed for coding
>not gaming
pass.
>designed for coding
>not gaming
Actually one didn't exclude the other. 3/2 is perfectly fine for gaming too. PC games should adapt to the ratio without problem and without black bars or distortion, unless the dev were moronic. Only the refresh rate is a problem if you're accustomed to higher.
OK, but how modern games would look like on it?
I personally love 3:2 as an aspect ratio. I have ever since I've been into photography. It's the same as a 35mm and that is all that I would ever need. Maybe I would rock two of these for coding.
We didn't leave lines, there must be a CSS problem on your side.
yeah i have a complaint. why is it so fat; are we in the 90s with crt monitors? it's embarrassing to see that. 60in TV are thin as a lpad and Benq comes up with this shit?
i more i look the worst it gets.
Refresh Rate (Hz) 60
Brightness (typ.) 350 nits
how is this coding friendly. brightness and refresh is high priority to help your eye strain
Like Dell monitors it has a built-in power supply. So no transformer brick.
>low ppi
>designed for coading
no anon, its not
anything lower than 230 ppi is not designed for coading