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Odyssey 57. Real estate is insanely boosting for multi app productivity.
57 solo. The comfort of having so much space with one screen is unmatched.
Got the 57" G9 and loving it.
1. Get a nice monitor arm that doesn’t wobble. 2. Get a dp2.1 to usb c cable 3. Haven’t had any issues
Can confirm with caveats. You will need a DP2.1 to usb c cable to properly get the full resolution. However if you do, you’re stuck with either native scaling (looks to small) or 1080p high dpi (ui looks too big). Both look off. The sweet spot is going for a looks like resolution of 5120x1440p or something similar but then you’re stuck at lodpi. Now there’s a way to fix that which involves getting an app better display and creating a virtual screen that you’re mirroring to your actual display to get HiDPI at 1440p. The downside of that is you’re limited to 60 hz but since you aren’t gaming it’s not a deal breaker. Also I get occasional kernel panics that I’m sure if it’s because of my monitor or something else.
So in my mind: You can compromise and get a regular non ultrawide. Then, I think 5k 27 inch monitors or 4k 27 inch monitors do exist, but you're gonna need a hefty graphics card to properly play games on either. Then you could compromise on refresh rate, 60 hz is gonna be way easier to power especially with some type of upscaling along with it. If you insist on ultrawide, you're simply not gonna hit the required PPI so you're gonna have to compromise on that. The best you're gonna get there is 5k2k 40 inch monitors like the LG OLED one, the Odyssey G9 57 at 8k2k. Both are at around 140 ppi so not great, but still very nice for productivity. Now if you need accurate colors, none of the gaming monitors will guarantee good colors, but if you're able to manually calibrate it that might be the way forward. If you can't manually calibrate it, it might be better to buy an office intended monitor like the dell 40 inch 5k2k, but then you lose mini-led/oled functionality.
Samsung has somehow managed to make a VA panel that doesn’t smear in their high end monitors like the G9. My g9 Neo is seriously the best of both worlds. Contrasty and not smeary.
I have the 57" Neo G9, and I love it so much. I've had it a couple years. I don't even game, I just ADHD.
I have it and the Samsung 57. I'm loving the Dell. If I had to keep one that's the one I'd keep for productivity. It's over 3k with tax but you can get it down to around 2600 plus tax if you ask nicely in the Dell chat (or at least I did).
Yes correct less vertical space, more width and a more pronounced curve. Yes the display issues with the Mac is annoying, hoping the M5 releasing very soon will address that! And there are supposedly two new Apple displays coming out very soon. Studio Display would be my first choice if they came out with a 40” or larger but highly unlikely to happen.
57 Samsung and 0 regrets, i only game on the ps5 but idc about the black bars on the side, or i can just have half screen with ps5 and the other half my pc or the firestick For work productivity the best
This is what I did since triples is, at best, a pain in the ass to set up for every game I wanted to play at my rig. So I got the odyssey g9 57”, and run reshade with Perspective Correction so that the curvature around the edges is flattened back out and the horizontal FOV is perfect. Now games are easy to just load up, set the resolution, and go. TLDR: if you play other games with less-than-stellar triple support, I’d recommend.
Get the 57" handsdown best for what u looking to do and all around in general besides the next gen LG/Asus monitors but they cant compete size wise. I bought two of these monitors my 2nd being a few weeks ago as I been waiting for CES 2026. As expected they are not refreshing this monitor so until they do so hopefully in an OLED model I will be sticking to this puppy for another 3 years. its the perfect size for productivity and is suprsingly beautiful in game mode, extra bright just wish the blacks were darker but will need an oled version for that. Dont worry about not pushing it to its full potential, I had a 4090 for 2 + years with it and it was perfect. Now owning a 5090 i can utilize the 240hz @8k but no AAA modern games at native high specs pushes that anyways. Ud be straight with DLSS with your 4090 even runnin arc raiders @ 7680 x 2160 res and boy oh boy is that an experience.
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