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by Sohcahtoa82 8 days ago
> There's nothing wrong with 1080p gaming though.

Hard disagree. Once I went 4K, I could never go back to 1080p.

Sure, in an action-packed scenes of close- to moderate-quarters combat, I don't really notice it.

But in long-distance combat? Having 4x the pixels per square inch is noticeable. In slower scenes and cut scenes it's definitely an appreciable improvement.

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I had a 4K 26 inch monitor and yes it was nice. But I travel too much and didn't enjoy moving it from place to place. Gave it to a good friend that I was visiting. Missed it for a little bit but quickly got used to using laptop screen. It is to the point that even if I'm in a hotel room with a large monitor/screen I usually don't bother to connect to it.

My point. Once you get better things yes it's easy to think you could never use the lesser tools you once had. But if the incentives are there, it's really not that difficult to adapt.

> I had a 4K 26 inch monitor and yes it was nice. But I travel too much and didn't enjoy moving it from place to place.

Basically the same specs here. 4K, 27".

How often were you traveling with it? I go to a PC gaming event twice/year (PDXLAN) and bring it. I don't think it's that bad moving it to the event venue and back.

> Once you get better things yes it's easy to think you could never use the lesser tools you once had.

You're probably right.

You really need 4K to appreciate all the hallucinated details in games.