News Dell's 32-inch 6K Monitor Now Available, Undercuts Apple Pro Display by $1,800

[Admin]

Dell's new everything-but-the-kitchen-sink 32-inch 6K monitor includes IPS Black technology, a built-in 4K webcam, and a 2.5G LAN port.

Dell's 32-inch 6K Monitor Now Available, Undercuts Apple Pro Display by $1,800 : Read more

 

[Elusive Ruse]

There's nothing pro about Apple's Pro Display. They market it as an alternative to the HX310 but in reality the Apple screen is just a premium monitor that's all.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

6144x3456 @ 31.5" = 223.79 PPI
Dell finally got the Pixel Density right, it's risen past the 96 PPI base minimum standard.

But the resolution choice is still kinda weird.

It's not a integer multiple of 720P or 1080P
3456 = 4.8 x 720
3456 = 3.2 x 720

 

[spongiemaster]

Are there enough Top Gun fighter pilots shopping for monitors to make this a viable product? I don't understand the desire to have such a high dpi on a desktop monitor. 4k is already too small for most people on a 32" monitor at 100% scaling.

 

[Eximo]

6144x3456 @ 31.5" = 223.79 PPI
Dell finally got the Pixel Density right, it's risen past the 96 PPI base minimum standard.

But the resolution choice is still kinda weird.

It's not a integer multiple of 720P or 1080P
3456 = 4.8 x 720
3456 = 3.2 x 720

Actual 4K is 4096x2160 . Horizontal this is 1.5 times that.

4096 x 1.5 = 6144

Then for 16:9 you end up with 3456 to maintain the ratio.

UHDTV is the 3840x2160 (or 2160p) resolution we commonly see in monitors.

True 4K is closer to 17:9

 

[kaalus]

Are there enough Top Gun fighter pilots shopping for monitors to make this a viable product? I don't understand the desire to have such a high dpi on a desktop monitor. 4k is already too small for most people on a 32" monitor at 100% scaling.

Use 200% scaling then?

I have been doing just that since 2015. Can't wait to move to 300% for even sharper text and pictures.

 

[kaalus]

The resolution is commendable - finally we are breaking the 200dpi barrier, and moving from extremely blurry to just a little blurry. Not that this is some great resolution. Newspapers, even rags printed on class 6 yellow paper, have been doing 300dpi back in the 19th century.

However, 60Hz is a non-starter. It's not about gaming - it's about comfort. Once you experience 120Hz, there's no going back to 60Hz, even for web browsing. It looks ridiculous, like watching a slideshow.

Dell - use DSC and give us 120Hz!

 

[GeorgeLY]

This is great! I love Dell monitors - have several of them (one is 15 years old 16x10 monitor that still works perfectly). IPS picture is great for work and response is good enough for normal gaming. Only gripe it is 16x9, I would really prefer 16x10.

 

[spongiemaster]

Use 200% scaling then?

That negates the entire reason for buying a higher resolution monitor, more screen real estate. If I buy a monitor with twice the vertical resolution just to double the scaling, then I would have been better off flushing the money down the toilet.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Actual 4K is 4096x2160 . Horizontal this is 1.5 times that.

4096 x 1.5 = 6144

Then for 16:9 you end up with 3456 to maintain the ratio.

UHDTV is the 3840x2160 (or 2160p) resolution we commonly see in monitors.

True 4K is closer to 17:9

Ah, you're going by the movie theater DCI 4K Cinema Resolution.

4096 × 2160 (full frame, 256∶135 or ≈1.90∶1 aspect ratio)

Yeah, that's part of the movie industry standards of resolution.


The SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) are the ones behind these standards resolutions:
_1K (_1280 × _720)px
_2K (_1920 × 1080)px
_3K (_2560 × 1440)px
_4K (_3840 × 2160)px
_8K (_7680 × 4320)px
16K (15360 × 8640)px

 

[kaalus]

That negates the entire reason for buying a higher resolution monitor, more screen real estate. If I buy a monitor with twice the vertical resolution just to double the scaling, then I would have been better off flushing the money down the toilet.

According to your logic, there was no reason for Apple to introduce retina displays in 2011. After all, the screen real estate remained exactly the same as in pre-retina screens. Apple just flushed the money down the toilet.

 

[event_horizon]

I've been trying to find out which laptops can support this resolution, but have not been able to locate that information. I have the following laptops and would like to know whether they will support this resolution and what connectors are needed to connect both these laptops to the monitor and switch between them.

• Dell XPS 17 (2020 edition) with Intel integrated graphics and RTX 2060 Max-Q discrete graphics. (Built-in display is 4K.) I connect the laptop to the monitor via the WD19TB (Thunderbolt 3, DP 1.4) docking station. I dual boot this laptop with Windows 10 home and Kubuntu Linux 22.04 LTS. If needed, I can upgrade to Windows 11 and Kubuntu 23.04.
• Apple Macbook Pro 16" M1.

Thanks.