[madmod]

I have 3 27" 5k monitors in portrait and a 32" 4k horizontal above those. It is all mounted with vesa cheeseplates to manfrotto magic arms on t slot aluminum attached to a C stand with manfrotto super clamps. I also have two genelec studio monitors which sound amazing.

All of that cost less than this one monitor.

[maest]

All the brand naming makes this read like something from American Psycho.

[nine_k]

The brand names are there, I assume, to show that it's not some cheapskate setup jerry-rigged from salvaged parts. Because even then it's still less expensive that the giant Dell monitor.

I frankly don't understand the point of such monitors. If they are placed reasonably near, they don't fit human FOV well, and the periphery is seen distorted. If they are far enough away, the pixel pitch goes well past the angular resolution of the eye.

[ffsm8]

I got the 49" version of the dell Alienware display (basically this one size down with different branding and stand)... . From my perspective you're looking at it incorrectly, the point isn't to be able to look at everything at the same time, it's to be able to quickly glance from the one side to another.

Let's say I have an ide open, I will likely not look at the directory structure often, but I want an easy way to switch files - fantastic for having it available just by glancing over

Now you run tests, start the application etc. It also doesn't need to be in your view, all the time - but isn't it convenient to be able to just look where you know it's?

It's suboptimal for competitive gaming however, exactly for the reason you said. Scenic gaming on the other hand is improved by it, because the larger screen is more innersive

[ryanjshaw]

I used to be happy with virtual desktops. Then I switched to macOS. What a mess it is: from the irritating virtual desktop animations that delay you, to the annoying keyboard shortcuts that don’t work in full screen mode, I’ve decided to just move on to multiple monitors or maybe one big display.

[wlonkly]

And it used to be better -- you could use TotalSpaces which would make Spaces two-dimensional and let you turn off the animation. But they took that from us!

There is a way of using Stage Manager as though it was Spaces, with minimal animations, but it takes a lot of getting used to and it's still not great.

[swiftcoder]

If your plan is to physically move your head to look at the peripheral anyway, then this is much cheaper to achieve by putting a second monitor alongside your primary monitor (I keep an older 2560x1440 in portrait alongside my main 4k display)

Scenic gaming seems pretty niche outside of dedicated flight/driving sim setups? And regular gaming often kind of sucks on ultrawides - way too few games have decent options to pull the HUD into the center region of the display

[bboygravity]

It's really not that complicated: do you prefer to work at a tiny desk or a huge desk?

Same with monitors.

Either you stack huge piles of papers and work through the piles (with everything in the way all the time) or you spread them out in front of you.

[otterley]

In case you don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

[lm28469]

Gear fetishism is a serious disease, and the symptoms are obvious

[pluralmonad]

It does read exactly like Bateman in my head, but didn't pin it down until you helped. Still, that Dell monitor is pretty crazy itself.

[quicklime]

Paul Allen has this Dell monitor

[Swoerd]

Let's see Paul Allen's monitor

[gizajob]

https://www.geekwire.com/2024/auction-of-paul-allen-items-in...

[A4ET8a8uTh0_v2]

Thank you. I did need a good chuckle to start the day right.

[lanthade]

Perhaps, but I value this simple explanation of the setup because it serves as a "these parts work well for this purpose" testimony. I'm already familiar with Manfrotto quality but not in this use type. It's nice to have my horizons broadened.

[madmod]

Force of habit. The film industry values brand recognition of gear highly because reliability is important. There are a lot of cheaper equivalent parts which could be assumed which wouldnt accurately illustrate my point. I spent around $450 just on the hardware to mount the monitors and it is still cheaper than this dell monitor.

[cheschire]

Or Fight Club

[nemosaltat]

“We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear.”

[timcobb]

I'm seeing only manfrotto here

[InMice]

I get bonkers annoyed using just two monitors with macos or windows. multi monitor management... nothing behaves how i want it to, apps never open where they should etc etc. I havent tried it on desktop linux enough to know if it's any better - maybe at least id assume have the most configuration control on linux.

How do you do it? I always give up in frustration. 100% would keep the genelecs :)

[ninkendo]

I can only speak for the Cinnamon desktop environment on Linux Mint, but it’s very simple:

- Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on

- Switching the focused window to the other monitor is Win+Shift+Arrow Keys

So if I clicked to open an app, it’s on the monitor I’m already looking at. If I used a keyboard shortcut, win+shift+arrow is super easy and simple.

The fact that it’s a stupid simple rule means I can get way better at just doing things by muscle memory… I don’t have to worry about being outsmarted by the window manager.

[InMice]

Thanks Im going to try it

[encom]

>Apps always launch on the monitor your mouse cursor is on

...but you can set up rules to force a given program to always launch at a specified position and dimension.

[madmod]

I use AeroSpace on mac os for tiling window management with spaces mapped per monitor so that eg space 1 is my top monitor woth my email and chat and space e is on the left for my obsidian, spaces asdfgh are my center monitor for code and terminals, and spaces zxcvb are the right monitor for browsers. I dont stick to this organization rigidly and when I'm doing odd tasks like cad or developing an app I break the patterns and put things on whatever monitor is convenient. I try to stick to a few common apps in the same spaces however.

[wincy]

For Mac I spent $0.99 a long time ago and bought Magnet on the App Store which lets me move windows and resize using hotkeys. For windows I aggressively use windows key + left/right to move the windows around, with 4 displays you just have to remember their ordering and eventually it becomes muscle memory to get it to snap where you want it. It mostly moves left to right, in my case.

[sourcegrift]

On linux i3 I've bound my workspaces to default to a monitor and my apps to default to a respective workspace. Very very productive

[Frotag]

On KDE and things like opening app on active monitor / desktop work fine. Only complaint is that on older versions, the taskbar on secondary monitors would sometimes disappear.

For reference I have 3 monitors (2x 4k, 1x 1080p) and am currently using Debian / Wayland and Ubuntu / X11.

[davsti4]

It was a bug. I have 3 screens, and it would disappear on the third. An update, sometime around middle of last year fixed it, if my memory is correct.

But, I still have occasional problems with my monitors not waking up when I return to my desk. With 3, I've never had all 3 fail to wake, and a simple disable in the monitor settings, then choose "revert" usually brings them back.

[neves]

I really miss kde generator of shift click in maximize window icon. It would expand a window just vertically.

Does windows has anything similar?

[pbhjpbhj]

Win+shift+up

[neves]

Better

[jhasse]

Double click on the edge on Windows :)

[neves]

Nice! Just works in top and bottom edge

[nottorp]

I generally don't close the applications i use on an ongoing basis :)

This way you only have to drag them to the monitor you want them on once on startup. Which on os x at least is not very often.

[sergiotapia]

What fixed it for my was switching to Omarchy and using wayland (what it comes with). I don't bother very much with positioning or window resizing anymore. Give it a shot!

[pragmatick]

I'm using DisplayFusion on Windows and am very happy with it. Haven't found anything similar on Linux that works as well.

[turtlebits]

And you can get at least 10x 24" 1080p monitors for the price of a single 5k monitor.

Being on the leading edge of tech costs money.

That said, your mixmatched PPIs would drive me nuts.

[madmod]

The relative distance of the top 4k monitor actually makes it work pretty well. I use that for chats and email and dashboards that I need to keep an eye on.

[m463]

That sounds like an ergonomics nightmare.

You should strive to sit with your head balanced on top of your neck, with your arms relaxed at your side and elbows at 90 degrees. wrist rest. good seating position. no donut cushion. etc

tilting your head back to look at a monitor above or to the side will use muscles to hold your body in place and misalign your spine/etc. leads to fatigue/stress/long-term issues

[FireBeyond]

Not for nothing but 6K HDR @ 120Hz is likely a large part of the cost of this monitor.

I don't know if I'd put it on my desk, I got somewhat used to my setup - I had 2x4K 27" 144Hz monitors with very thin bezels (LG or Asus?) that I then traded in when I got a ProDisplay XDR. I do wish for higher refresh, and maybe more screen size.

[libertine]

I was going to comment about the price, but you kind of wrapped it up.

It's like the most popular form of innovation nowadays is just marginally nicer products with a massive premium on them - and I don't get how this is sustainable. Or maybe there's just way more people with massive amounts of disposable income than I realize...

There's no breakthrough of like "here's an amazing product, and by the way, it's for everyone".

This whole culture of scarcity, scalping, hoarding, FOMO, premium, it's so played out I'm literally done with it. This is paired with terrible customer support that takes customers for granted.

Very few companies seem to value their customers, and don't want to squeeze them. Tech, cars, consoles... You name it.

So this is my current stance: I'm out of the market for the foreseeable future, unless something breaks and I need to replace it. Even the "nice to have" stuff is down to almost zero.

[sigy]

I disagree with this take. Particularly because this isn't just a little more of this or that. It's a well-integrated set of features that should have already been on the market in some form, but wasn't really. And it's also a premium setup in terms of each feature individually. It really does feel like the whole is more than the sum of its parts in practical terms.

I don't feel FOMO. I'm thinking more "why did it take this long?"

[novaleaf]

what's the make/model for the monitors? my setup is getting long in the tooth.

[madmod]

Two PA27JCV and one LG ultrasharp (it was cheap because it was broken and I repaired it) and the 4k monitor is a samsung which I cant recommend. (Open box was cheap though)

[andrei_says_]

I would love to see a photo of that setup.

[perfmode]

Like that? https://gemini.google.com/share/3dbf617a1e07

[madmod]

Haha thats amazingly confusing when you look closely.

I'm using baby pin reciever plates on 4080 extrusion with m6 thumbscrews into drop in t nuts. There is only one c stand. The extrusion is actually two parts in a cross. The speakers are on the horizontal extrusion mounted on magic arms. My momitors are angled slightly upward and the bottom is a few inches lower than standard desk height.

[Mistletoe]

Gemini with the Genelecs, nice.

[port11]

I would pay the premium to have just this one monitor, although I find it too large.

And that’s fine for me: that different people want different setups. I’d never want a multi-monitor setup if I can avoid it, where others say it makes them more productive and whatnot.

[michaelmcdonald]

Would love to see a picture of this setup and your thought on the brands / models you have. I’m in the market for new monitors / setup and yours sounds very much like something up my alley.

[byproxy]

What Genelecs are you using??

[EnPissant]

Not OP, but I have 2 8020D + a subwoofer.

If I had to do it all over again I would have 2 8030C and no subwoofer.

[someguyiguess]

Why? Just out of curiosity. Is it that you don’t need that much low end for the media you’re usually playing through your monitors or do the 8030Cs have enough low end to eliminate the need for a separate woofer?

I’ve been debating getting genelecs for a few years now but the price jump from something like JBLs or Yamahas is so huge that I can’t justify it. At least not on my current budget.

[EnPissant]

I currently have the 8020D + 7040A. It's pretty much perfect sound with room correction applied, but the 7040A is kind of big and ugly. I'd be willing to give up some low-end to simplify the setup. Also the sub performs the crossover, so it's a lot of cords: 2 cords for DAC -> Sub, and 2 cords for sub -> L/R. And these cords have to be really long for when I raise my desk because the sub has to go on the floor.

[brandonmenc]

I have the smallest of both: 8010As and a 7040A sub.

I'm sending almost nothing to the sub, and I'm guessing the 8030s would provide most of what I'm using the 7040 for without the inconvenience.

I'm in a small room and going for accuracy, so don't need much bass.

[ngcazz]

Also have 2 8020D's but I skimped on the subwoofer. Probably a bad idea, since they deemphasize the lows so much, but surprisingly I can crank up them up on my mixer's EQ to make up for it without losing clarity.

[EnPissant]

Yeah, they are really impressive for 4" drivers.

[ziofill]

I sport two klipsch towers on either side of my desk and a small tube amp ^^'

[madmod]

They are the tiny 8010s. I don't produce much with this setup so accurate near field monitoring was all that I needed. I love how crystal clear the high end is with these. I bought them used and they were pretty beat up. I take them traveling so as an anti theft measure I painted them neon green and covered them in stickers to make them look cheap. They are mounted on magic arms to the aluminum extrusion. I also have some random Klipsch subwoofer. I send them a balanced output from a yamaha mixer at 192khz.

[byproxy]

Oh, nice! Yea, was wondering what Genelecs, combined with your other gear, could be less than the price of this monitor. Makes sense that it’s the smaller ones!

[deepsun]

Interesting, manfrotto's website has a cookie notice with two buttons: ALLOW ALL and ALLOW SELECTION.

However, there's no selections -- there's only a description of hundreds of cookies they store (e.g. 73 in Marketing section), but there's nothing to select, it's only text.

[buzer]

There seems to be grey deny button at top-right on first view but it disappears if you select the details. You need hide the details first if you want to click it.

[deepsun]

Thank you. ALLOW SELECTION is still a mystery though.

[sixtram]

could you share an anonymized desk photo?

[madmod]

Sorry I don't have any without work stuff in the image. If I do post it one day I will reply to this.

[whyenot]

I'm not sure what your point is. This monitor is less than 1/2 the price of Apple's Pro Display XDR with nano texture glass.

[madmod]

This monitor is not aimed at the same market segment as the pro display xdr which values high brightness, accurate color, and higher than normal contrast for hdr content mastering. In my opinion for productivity there are much cheaper setups which provide more ppi and more pixels per dollar.