Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “A challenger approaches”.
Foreign, I can’t believe I have this sitting in front of me. This is the upcoming Samsung vfinity S9 and it’s one of the tech products I’m most excited about this year when it goes on sale in mid-august, it promises to be the only viable alternative to Apple’s. Sixteen hundred dollar Studio display it’s not even that the studio display is bad, not even close. It’S just that it’s been really hard being a Mac User. Looking for a monitor, but along with Dell’s new 6K monitor the viewfinity signals that the industry is no longer ignoring the one feature that until now, you could only find on Apple’s displays and the feature I’m referring to is pixels.
Apple’S monitors have the right amount of pixels per inch, 218 pixels per inch to be precise, and this is important if you use Mac OS, because it’s what Apple considers retina for desktop. There are now two monitors outside of Apple’s lineup that are blessed with this density and they’re rumor to be less expensive than Apple Studio, display and pro display xdr. But what happens if you don’t go for one of these well to explain. I gave our thumbnail designer Maria a 27 inch 4K Asus Pro art display that has a pixel density of only 163 PPI hi Maria I’m wondering if you can help us out with something I want to swap your monitor out with something else with two monitors, and I just want to see if you notice any differences between them sure great we’re going to come back later and see if she actually notices a difference, because Apple has included displays on most of the Macs they have sold over the years. They haven’t had to care about optimizing for different display sizes and resolutions.
Therefore, when they designed OS 10 20 odd years ago, they designed it to work best with the pixel density of their displays at the time around 100 PPI. That meant that text buttons and interface elements were rendered in their perfect physical size in displays of that density when they added the retina screen to the iMac, which was 1440p at the time all they did was double the density of the panel and the asset to Mac OS, hence the 218 PPI we have now. I actually agree with this way of looking at monitors. We tend to focus on resolution 1080p, 1440p. 4K, when talking about monitor specs, but that’s an incomplete picture, because how it looks is dependent on how far away the monitor is from you and how big it is, and then the pixel density, and all that this is what Steve was talking about when he announced The retina screen on the iPhone 4., so I think the trifecta of panel size in area, pixel density and aspect ratio together are far more descriptive.
If you go out to the store and buy an inexpensive monitor that doesn’t fit with an Apple’s, exacting PPI. Like say, this 27 inch 1080p screen well, that means everything’s just going to be bigger. It means there’s no usable difference between this and a smaller 1080p screen because they fit the exact same amount of content. When Apple introduced the retina screens, they made an accommodation for that problem with their display scaling feature. So though, this monitor I gave Maria is 4K and therefore would render a big 1080p size desktop. We can actually set it to zoom out and render a 5k desktop. Instead, giving her more space for her Adobe interface, but that creates a problem when you scale down a 5k image to a 4K display. The pixels won’t line up. That means things like text and buttons will appear a little fuzzy. It also affects performance because the graphics card has to render more pixels and then calculate the best way to scale them down, which requires more computation resources.
That’S why we see this warning. If you get a screen with the right PPI in the first place, you don’t have to worry about that. So, let’s check back with Maria all right Maria you’ve used both the Asus Pro art and the Samsung view Affinity um. What differences did you notice between them? Hi, I mean it’s hard to tell because uh the response time, for example, of all of them yeah.
It’S really similar, if not like quite the same yeah, this one, the Samsung and the Apple monitor, are like the images look sharper, okay and the Asus okay. So the actual thing I was wondering, if you would notice, is the sharpness, in fact, because the pro art is a 4K display and that’s a 5k display. So it’s interesting, you notice that important is that sharpness for your work. I mean details look way better in that way. That’S like yeah, I think in in details, is the thing that I can like really know like notice, a difference. Yeah yeah, for example like when I’m editing, liners or like pictures of people I can see like faces. Look really really sharp yeah.
I don’t know how to explain. Okay, fair enough, you want to know the price difference between the two. It’S a thousand dollars.
Yeah I mean for a thousand dollars. Maybe I’ll choose the aces. If I like, I want to save some money because it’s not like yeah, it has to be it’s not entirely worth it yeah exactly so it appears that even a graphic designer, like Maria, doesn’t seem to care all that much about Pixel, Perfect rendering, even though she Can in fact tell the difference still, though I do wish Mac OS, had a more flexible, rendering and scaling allowing Pixel, Perfect resolutions and sizes, something that’s already available to you with this video’s sponsor Squarespace, because websites need to display on any and every screen size. They need to be infinitely scalable designing one for yourself, for all.
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New 6K model is the u3224kb, and on paper it looks to be the perfect alternative to the person who wants a screen as big and as crisp as the five thousand dollar, plus pro display xdr. In fact, this monitor has even more pixels. It doesn’t, however, have the HDR mini LED magic, maxing out at 700, nits of brightness in our tests and while there’s local dimming, there’s a total of 12 zones. So no, however, the Dell uses LG’s new IPS black technology. This improves the contrast ratio to the 1800 to 1.
Our demo model managed to display, even with that, it’s not quite as accurate as Apple’s displays, showing slightly higher Delta e readings in all the color spaces we tested it in, but it’s still good enough for most creatives. The Dell also looks kind of peculiar what they did is essentially stuff the 6K panel in their existing video conferencing monitor. That means there’s this huge forehead for the speakers in giant 4K webcam, as well as call and mute buttons. The speakers are decent, especially compared to the pro displays which don’t exist, but they are lacking in bass compared to the studio displays which do the best thing about it is the 140 watt Thunderbolt 4 connector.
It means that there’s a downstream Thunderbolt port for daisy chaining. More devices and monitors countless USB ports and even a two and a half gig ethernet port. The pro display, on the other hand, has three inconvenient and slow USBC ports.
Now, let’s talk about the display, that’s more relevant to most people. This new Samsung viewfinity S9 looks a lot closer on the outside to Apple’s Studio display. The design is really nice, it’s just as silver and minimal, but more bolt upright.
There are some really nice touches like this magnetic webcam module, which, if you watched our early Apple, should make a TV video we’ll know is my idea. Even the cable management makes sense as the power and input cables go right through the stand in the back. Here, though, this is where the Hub of USBC Downstream ports are hidden too. We are so close guys. I swear also, I would have preferred an HDMI port over this mini display port.
Despite Samsung advertises, we measured an 1800 to 1 contrast ratio, which is pretty good because, like the studio display, there’s no local dimming. That said it can get very, very bright. We measured almost 800 nits. I feel like you can use this outside, though, with the bright highlights will come great shadows and while it does cover 100 of the P3 and srgb color gamut, the accuracy is not quite up to Snuff, with the other monitors in this article on the color management Front we recommend staying with the graphic or custom picture modes or better still. You should calibrate the display yourself for the color space you can work in, which is what they’re hoping to let you do even with your iPhone, despite the silver appearance and even metal on here. It’S not exactly built like the studio display, there’s a bit of wobble here and there, but I’m actually fine with it, especially if that means the display will cost less, because this actually demonstrates that anyone can make an attractive. Looking monitor what I’m less fine with is the fact that this runs tizen, I’m not entirely sure how much I care about being able to watch the Netflix app on a screen.
I intend to use, as my computer monitor, but it’s here all right, we’re still. The speakers on here are not very good and the only way to hook up external speakers is through Bluetooth. If it works to my eye, text looks ever so slightly different on the Samsung display versus the studio display.
It feels like there’s some sort of sharpening filter added here, which is wholly unnecessary at this resolution. Right now, I’ve had to set the sharpness between five and seven to get as close to Apple’s displays. Minimum brightness we measured at 84 nits, which is a little too high for dark environments. The srgb standard, for instance, specifies only 80. and, lastly, the monitor does not like plugging into 2019 Max with AMD graphics. For some reason, both these screens have a matte finish, which is very common, but with Apple’s displays you have to pay 300 or a thousand dollars to etch the glass.
Not Everyone likes matte screens, though, and these aren’t available with a glossy finish, which is something Apple does extremely well. So neither of these displays is perfect, but that’s fine if it’s a good fit for you at the right price. Well, the Dell in fact costs thirty.
Two hundred dollars – it’s not exactly cheap, but it is a full two thousand dollars less than a pro display, with only a vase amount. So the Samsung, I’m sure you’re just as excited as me to find out how much they’re going to be asking well when this goes on sale, the MSRP will be sixteen hundred dollars. What that the exact same price as the studio display, brightness height adjustment matte, finish, buy this. If you need those thanks for upping the resolution of this Mac address, if you’re as pedantic about pixels, as I am give this video a like, and if you don’t care well, you might as well subscribe.
I’M curious in the comments below if running Mac OS at the native resolution is that important to you or, if not and if so or not, explain why? .