Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “LG UltraFine 5K Review: 15 Million Pixels!”.
Hey what is up guys, I’m conveyed to be here and when Apple announced, the new MacBook Pros. They also pretty much killed all hopes for another cinema display when they dropped this alongside it. The new LG 5k ultra fine display, and then they said, they’d be selling. Alongside the new Macs in the Apple store, okay, we want to give it a chance. So is this: if I just cover up the LG logo, is this thing a good enough replacement for the Apple Cinema Display legacy? Is this good enough? Well I’ll, be using it for a couple weeks, and my answer is, it depends on who you are. Let me explain so: I’m coming from a pair of aces 32 inch, 4k monitors, I’ve always been a dual monitor person and this LG 5k display is awesome.
I mean it’s objectively undeniably awesome. It’S a smaller 27-inch display at 5k, so 50, 120 by 28 80, which gives you about 218 pixels per inch, which is awesome for a desktop display, and it also has the wider p-3 color gamut, so colors really pop and 500 nits of brightness. So it’s vivid contrast, II and clear there’s a 1201 contrast ratio, so it’s just obviously a really great looking panel.
That’S what you like to see the expects on the site also say it’s anti glare, but the Asus was way more math than this. This is much more glossy, so if you position yourself near Windows, you’ll have to know where the lights are going to be behind you, but once you get used to that, that’s pretty much fun and then the actual hardware around the monitor itself is pretty good. I mean some people have said it’s not the prettiest thing in the world, but you got a height-adjustable stand here. It’S tilted just about one thing it doesn’t do is swivel. I think it would have been super easy to put a swivel right here in the base, but it doesn’t do that and then you can see the bezels. Obviously some people been talking about how it’s not the prettiest thing in the world. I’D agree. It’S got a little bit of a bigger forehead than a chin, but, to be honest, I’ve barely noticed that, after, like a week of using the monitors, you’re not really looking at the bezels anymore after like a couple of days, but the larger top bezel does also Hold the webcam and microphone which are also actually pretty good, and this guy also has speakers right on the bottom, the grills on the bottom they’re downward-facing, big, sound, just like the IMAX speakers, is pretty comparable to that the overall still pretty.
Well, I mean it’s not metal, like you see the exposed metal on the iMac you get metal down here on the stand, but once you get into the plastic of the tops, it doesn’t quite feel the same, but you’re not really paying that much attention to that. One that you look so good the rest can be kind of forgiven, so the other thing is this monitor is also made for Mac they’re selling, alongside the Macs it’s marketed next to the MacBook Pro. What does that mean for it? Well, first of all, there are no buttons anywhere on the outside of this thing: there’s no knobs or anything for turning on or off no power button. Nothing.
It all goes through the software in Mac, OS 10. So any colors! You want to change any resolution. You want to adjust any brightness changes. They will all happen through the software just because that’s the way it works with Mac.
So there’s that and then of course there is the USB type-c, the one single Thunderbolt three table that I’m plugging this into my macbook pro with that’s a pretty big deal. So through this one, cable you’re getting video going from the computer to the monitor and you’re. Also getting power going back from the monitor to the computer, so it’s actually charging my macbook pro with the same cable. That’S doing this video, which is pretty awesome.
It saves you, a port, you don’t have to plug into the wall anymore. For the most part, that’s really convenient and then around the back, there’s a three port USB type-c hub on back the monitor, it’s not full Thunderbolt 3 and it’s not even fully powered USB 3.1. But it’s a couple of solid USB 3 ports for stuff, like media card readers, webcams, etc, and this again freeze-up ports on the laptop, if you’d normally put say an SD card reader in this laptop, you can now put it on the back of the monitor. So, overall it seems like an ideal package. You know it’s one laptop one display one cable between them, nice and clean, and you get way more working area in this glorious 5 klg panel, looking good, but obviously it’s not quite perfect for everyone. If you’re a person who doesn’t have a 2016-2017 MacBook Pro, then this is probably not a good pick, because even with the right adapter, the highest resolution you can get out of this monitor even with a Mac Pro is about 4k with one cable so not ideal. It’S still going to be a beautiful, colorful, contrasting monitor, but it’s only 4k and you’d bought a 5k display. You might as well get your money’s worth and then number two. If you edit, video on your laptop, which again not a lot of people, do, but if you’re in that category, you might not be able to get away with using just the power cable from the monitor, here’s a fun story. I tweeted about already when I was editing video in Final Cut Pro with this MacBook Pro plugged in to the monitor getting battery. It says it’s charging the whole time and while I’m editing, the battery life still decreases from 100 % going down, while it’s still plugged in so I’m plugged in and charging, and I get to 85 percent and 75 percent and 50 percent. I get all the way to rendering the whole video out and right when the video is done, rendering my laptop says it has 4 percent battery, even though it’s still plugged in and charging. Obviously that’s not a normal use case. Most people aren’t editing heavy high-resolution videos on their MacBook Pros.
I get it, but you should know that this monitor is not delivering necessarily the entire 85 watts of power necessary to keep this thing fully charged. It even says 85 watts on the site and when I go into system profiler it says it’s getting 85 watts, but Dave 2d tested at any tweeted. I mean that he tested it and II was getting something more like 60 to 62 watts. So again, if you’re editing with video you’re, probably gon na, have to unplug one of the monitors and plug in the power brick to get your full power again, that’s not your normal customer. If your setup is near a router like within two to three feet of a Wi-Fi router, you probably want to temporarily avoid this monitor due to poor shielding, there’s been reports of flickering and weird non responsiveness and rebooting of the monitor when it’s really close to a Router now I don’t have that problem on the way on the other side over there. But if you have a router, that’s really close to your setup, probably going to want to avoid that LG says: they’re working on updating this version to have improved shielding and they’re.
Even okay to retrofit these monitors that don’t have good shielding with new ones, but until then I just give it a second, because that doesn’t seem like a very good property to have, but even after all of that, other than that. The monitor the monitor right here is really good. It’S amazing. I wish I could say it’s like an Apple logo, away from being like the next cinema display, but obviously it’s not quite there. My setup where I’m using is, I have two of these attached to the macbook pro that I’m using all three screens full-time and even I’ve had little blinking problems that a reboot eventually fixed. But it’s like, I shouldn’t, even be having this problem. So I think if you have a MacBook Pro a new MacBook Pro – and you just want one monitor to plug in with one cable, to sell your desk and just get way more real estate, then this is an awesome pick. The panel is amazing. It’S way more pixels, it looks fantastic and it is excellent for people who are in that sort of a casual user. Even though you’re buying a MacBook Pro, you can still get a lot casually out of this monitor.
If you fit into any of those buckets of people I described earlier, then you may want to hold off on this or maybe look at the 4k version. Okay. Overall conclusion is: the panel obviously is really good. It’S beautiful, vivid, vibrant love. It the hardware surround the panel, is sort of hit or miss for some people. It’S alright. You know I like the understated design, but some people might not like it as much and then the compatibility or just knowing if you fit in those buckets of people I talked about, is what’s going to decide. If you buy this monitor or not.
So that’s pretty much it it’s! You could say it’s ultra fine, thanks for watching and I’ll talk to you guys. The next one pace. .