Samsung 4K freesync 28" monitor 299 @ Costco - warm

I got this bad boy refurb on Woot a long time back now for $300. I'd been planning on sticking with the ancient CFL 24" I'd been using, but it was too cheap to pass up. It's been such an amazing delight having this monitor.
 
dholcombe said:
No vesa mount. No sale
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Who cares, it is a very good monitor. I have the non free sync one and it works great, even after two years. Also, there are constructed mounts available that will provide vesa compatibility.
 
myren said:
I got this bad boy refurb on Woot a long time back now for $300. I'd been planning on sticking with the ancient CFL 24" I'd been using, but it was too cheap to pass up. It's been such an amazing delight having this monitor.
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Yup, I did the same thing and I entirely regretted it. 4k monitors shouldn't even be made under ~38" at least. Everything was so small it was a complete waste. Win 10 can scale, but not all apps can and I just got tired of everything being so small in general.

I ended up buying an Acer CZ340CK and I couldn't be happier. Between the widescreen and the still higher than 1080p resolution of 2k, it flies circles around the 4k monitor. My 4k monitor has been boxed away and I've been meaning to sell it, but haven't gotten around to it. What a travesty that monitor was.
 
ManofGod said:
Who cares, it is a very good monitor. I have the non free sync one and it works great, even after two years. Also, there are constructed mounts available that will provide vesa compatibility.
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Obviously, I care, or I would not have posted. It does not mean you have to care.

Looked at this today. The model at least at my Costco is this: https://www.costco.com/Samsung-28"-4K-Ultra-HD-Monitor.product.100293526.html It is not the one linked by the OP and it DOES have a 75 x 75 VESA mount.

As such...I am considering one now.
 
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Heck, I'm running 4k on a 40" and it's still tiny (Default 100%). Admittedly my 46 year old eyes aren't what they used to be but I can imagine how much more horrible it would be if it was on an even smaller screen. 4K@ 28 inches ... just say no.
 
dvsman said:
Heck, I'm running 4k on a 40" and it's still tiny (Default 100%). Admittedly my 46 year old eyes aren't what they used to be but I can imagine how much more horrible it would be if it was on an even smaller screen. 4K@ 28 inches ... just say no.
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OS scaling works pretty well these days. I have a 4k 15" laptop and with appropriate scaling set things are great. It gets pretty terrible though when I have to remote into some archaic system for work that has an OS without good scaling support. Can't see crap.
 
I had a 28" 4K Acer with GSYNC, I never felt as if the scaling was an issue. Switched over to an ultrawide, and haven't looked back though..
 
dholcombe said:
OS scaling works pretty well these days. I have a 4k 15" laptop and with appropriate scaling set things are great. It gets pretty terrible though when I have to remote into some archaic system for work that has an OS without good scaling support. Can't see crap.
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... but if you have to scale it, what's the point? As far as I'm concerned, if I can't see the pixels then there's no point in having a monitor with twice the resolution at double the scaling, vs having a monitor at normal scaling but half the resolution... In fact the former is more buggy.

IMO, 1440p is the sweet spot. 4k has more application for TV's. I'm also eagerly waiting for 4k projectors to drop down in price, because my projector wall is over 140-150" WIDE. Which is massive. It doesn't take me much to be able to see each individual pixel at 1080p. But at 4k, well that'll be a treat. That's pretty much perfect. But on a 28" screen? I sincerely don't see the point, just get a 27" 1440p and call it good. I bet even at 32", 1440p still looks great.
 
StoleMyOwnCar said:
... but if you have to scale it, what's the point? As far as I'm concerned, if I can't see the pixels then there's no point in having a monitor with twice the resolution at double the scaling, vs having a monitor at normal scaling but half the resolution... In fact the former is more buggy.

IMO, 1440p is the sweet spot. 4k has more application for TV's. I'm also eagerly waiting for 4k projectors to drop down in price, because my projector wall is over 140-150" WIDE. Which is massive. It doesn't take me much to be able to see each individual pixel at 1080p. But at 4k, well that'll be a treat. That's pretty much perfect. But on a 28" screen? I sincerely don't see the point, just get a 27" 1440p and call it good. I bet even at 32", 1440p still looks great.
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Everything looks far sharper and clearer. Also, the monitor scales down quite well so playing games on it at less then 4k resolutions still looks fantastic. 28 inches on a 4k monitor looks fantastic and you do not need something bigger if you do not want it.
 
Picked one of these up at Costco a couple months back. 2nd monitor for an iMac for the wife. Looked great, but it had an annoying whine to it that you just could not ignore. Tried all kinds of different brightness settings, different HDMI and Display Port cables, it just wouldn't go away. Might just be a bad capacitory on that one, but ended up returning it. Got an HP Envy 32" for $100 more on Amazon, and have been pretty happy with that one. Her iMac will only drive 2560x1440 anyway, so didn't need the 4k and she prefers the bigger screen.
 
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ManofGod said:
Everything looks far sharper and clearer. Also, the monitor scales down quite well so playing games on it at less then 4k resolutions still looks fantastic. 28 inches on a 4k monitor looks fantastic and you do not need something bigger if you do not want it.
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Dunno, I'd have to really see it side by side, but do you have a 1440p 27" to objectively compare? Because 1440p at normal viewing distance is a long shot from 1080, which truly isn't very sharp. There's a reason I went after a 1440p monitor as soon as I saw one, almost doggedly. 4k thus far hasn't impressed me as much.
 
Got this monitor to replace a 35" monitor that had 1080 vertical resolution. It's great compared to that POS wide monitor! The amount of screen real estate is such a relief compared to the totally inadequate vertical resolution of my previous monitor!
 
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