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Does anyone know what the roughly square-aspect monitor in the middle of his 3-monitor setup is? Looks interesting but I can't zoom in far enough to see a logo,

Does anyone know what the roughly square-aspect monitor in the middle of his 3-monitor setup is? Looks interesting but I can't zoom in far enough to see a logo, and the Upgrading the Gaming PC[0] post. Thanks [0] <https://nmsspot.com/2023/01/20/upgrading-the-gaming-pc/ https://nmsspot.com/2023/01/20/upgrading-the-gaming-pc/>

jabroni_salad 1mo ago
Im having trouble zooming on the image but I'm pretty sure benq has the only 3:2 desktop display on the market that isn't a graphics tablet. You should also look at the LG Dualup if this kinda thing interests you. https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor
- zbikowski 1mo ago
  Thanks for the reply. The Benq definitely interests me. Maybe one day companies will be more incentivized to make "strange" aspect ratios like this.
haunter 1mo ago
It's an LG Dual Up (you can find the info in some earlier posts) Technically it's 8:9 so not a perfect square, 2560 x 2880 https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor
- joshu 1mo ago
  discontinued and going for almost double the msrp on ebay, alas
  - haunter 1mo ago
    And as I see there is no modern high resolution 1:1, 5:4, or 8:9 monitor on the market
    - blakespot 1mo ago
      Indeed not, sadly.
- blakespot 1mo ago
  Indeed, it is a DualUp -- the best display I have ever owned. I love it so very much, I planned to get a spare for when it dies, before they EOL'ed it. (I assumed it would not last long, as there can't be widespread appeal for such a display.) I missed that chance - but after months of setting eBay alerts, I found a local teacher that had a used one with just 400 hours on it (I have 17,000 hours on mine), and I bought it ($50 above retail price) and have it cleaned and waiting in a cloth sleeve for its time to shine, one day. I talk about it and using it on a Mac with HiDPI display modes in this blog post from several years back: https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/08/4k-scaling-is-not-a-problem-on-modern-macs/ https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/08/4k-scaling-is-not-a-proble...
  - blakespot 1mo ago
    More photos of the DualUp can be seen in my Mac Studio photo gallery, over on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72177720302080369/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7217772030208...

jabroni_salad 1mo ago

Im having trouble zooming on the image but I'm pretty sure benq has the only 3:2 desktop display on the market that isn't a graphics tablet. You should also look at the LG Dualup if this kinda thing interests you. https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html https://www.benq.com/en-us/monitor/programming/rd280u.html https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

zbikowski 1mo ago
Thanks for the reply. The Benq definitely interests me. Maybe one day companies will be more incentivized to make "strange" aspect ratios like this.

haunter 1mo ago

It's an LG Dual Up (you can find the info in some earlier posts) Technically it's 8:9 so not a perfect square, 2560 x 2880 https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

joshu 1mo ago
discontinued and going for almost double the msrp on ebay, alas
- haunter 1mo ago
  And as I see there is no modern high resolution 1:1, 5:4, or 8:9 monitor on the market
  - blakespot 1mo ago
    Indeed not, sadly.
blakespot 1mo ago
Indeed, it is a DualUp -- the best display I have ever owned. I love it so very much, I planned to get a spare for when it dies, before they EOL'ed it. (I assumed it would not last long, as there can't be widespread appeal for such a display.) I missed that chance - but after months of setting eBay alerts, I found a local teacher that had a used one with just 400 hours on it (I have 17,000 hours on mine), and I bought it ($50 above retail price) and have it cleaned and waiting in a cloth sleeve for its time to shine, one day. I talk about it and using it on a Mac with HiDPI display modes in this blog post from several years back: https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/08/4k-scaling-is-not-a-problem-on-modern-macs/ https://bytecellar.com/2022/11/08/4k-scaling-is-not-a-proble...
- blakespot 1mo ago
  More photos of the DualUp can be seen in my Mac Studio photo gallery, over on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72177720302080369/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/7217772030208...