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by 0172 971 days ago
I recently received a 144Hz ASUS monitor from the IT department at my company. I don't game on company computer and yet the difference while doing regular day-to-day work was noticeable. Cursor stutter/delay was noticeable when I switched back to my personal laptop with 60Hz setting. Time to look forward to 240Hz!
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Yup. I do love my ProDisplay XDR from a photography perspective, but I miss my dual LG monitors - and there's a little Stockholm syndrome, as Apple broke DSC 1.4 in order to make the ProDisplay work - previously, in Catalina, I could drive the 2 27GN950-Bs in 4K HDR @ 144Hz, and after, could not (this was reported hundreds of times, across many users, monitors, and GPUs). After Catalina, and at least through Monterey, I could only get HDR@60, SDR@95 with DSC 1.4. Ironically, telling the monitors to only advertise DSC 1.2 support got me better results.

At the time, people were wondering how Apple was able to drive the ProDisplay given bandwidth constraints. The answer was "by breaking DSC 1.4 for everybody else".

But to your point, agreed. Whether coding, or otherwise, 144Hz was just buttery smooth and made 60Hz very noticeable.

Yeah my multimonitor setup includes both 60hz and 240hz monitors, and it's so much easier to use the cursor with the 240hz monitor.