LG 34BK95U-W UltraFine 34" 21:9 5K 2K (5120 x 2160) Nano IPS LED UltraWide Monitor, 600 cd/m² HDR, Thunderbolt 3 / USB Type-C Inputs Black

I spent a LONG time trying to find the perfect monitor to accompany my 13" MacBook Pro. The most essential feature is a USB-C connection, which means that a SINGLE CABLE connects the computer to the screen. It carries power to charge the laptop, as well as audio, video, and data. Whatever stuff you plug into the screen's two standard USB jacks is automatically "plugged in" to the laptop.But the Mac's own screen has 218 pixels per inch (ppi)—a Retina display. I actually bought two other 34" monitors before finding this LG, and returned them both....because their resolution was 109 ppi! HALF the clarity. Text looked blurry! There's no way I could tolerate that after getting used to the MacBook Pro screen.This one has 163 ppi, which makes a HUGE difference. Text and graphics are RAZOR sharp. Colors and brightness are phenomenal. I haven't had any of the sleep/discovering-the-Mac issues described in the other reviews.This is the ONLY ultrawide monitor, made by ANY company, with 163 ppi. I'm thrilled. I could stare at it all day (and will).The speakers sound muddy, so be prepared for that. And I wish there were more than 2 USB jacks on the back; to accommodate my microphone, camera, Bluetooth mouse receiver, card reader, and backup drive, I've had to buy a USB dock to occupy one of those jacks.Otherwise, though, this is pure visual heaven.

I have been using these displays for workstations since they first started shipping and have several in service. I've had no reliability issues and display quality is excellent. The stand is attractive enough and easy to tune out, and the included cables are of high quality. I use them with both Macs on the thunderbolt port, and use them on PC's with Displayport connections.It is not the fault of the display, but I will note that if you connect this display to a DisplayPort on an eGPU on a Mac, it will not let you select correct scaled display ratios even though the correct ratios are options when you use thunderbolt directly. using an eGPU on a windows laptop works fine, so this is an AMD display driver issue on macOS at least through all versions of Catalina.

11pm, computer's off but monitor's plugged in / on; I smell strange burning, so I run to kitchen to see if I left stove on (no). Go to sleep thinking it just have been in my head. Next morning I power on computer and monitor's flickering like a strobe light. While trying to troubleshoot, I touch the left side and it's extremely hot to the touch. That's when I remember the burning smell from night before, and Google search reveals that the burning smell + malfunction does sometimes happen when monitors crap out.Before dying, it was indeed a beautiful monitor, no complaints. But dying after 4 months of light use simply CAN'T HAPPEN.TLDR: I would highly, HIGHLY recommend getting 2 x 4k monitors instead of this 5k/2k. You'll spend 60% LESS, and get significantly MORE resolution/screen real estate. And if one ever craps out you can replace it for $250. Seriously wish I had gone that route myself.RETURN HEADACHES -- LG is refusing to repair or replace this; full disclosure this is MY FAULT for waiting too long to report this to them...I don't have any excuse other than I thought the monitor would be under warranty for min 3 years. All you / they have is my word that this crapped out after 4 months of VERY LIGHT use. Was nonetheless hoping that because it was an obvious manufacturing defect (burning smell + pop > completely dead screen), they would nonetheless offer a reasonable resolution like a refurbished unit, but they're refusing to do anything for me. My fault on that front, so all I can do is to post this review suggesting to avoid this item at all costs as quality control is obviously lacking.

Caveat: I'm replacing a 30" 2560x1440 Apple Cinema Display only because, after nine years of constant use, its pixel fatigue has become my eye fatigue. Being one of the best displays ever made, it's not an easy act to follow.But still…. This thing is ugly. If you've put any effort into your environment, you won't be able to tolerate it unless its cheap, ugly white plastic back is to the wall. The stand is worse than ugly. It's not unreasonable it should have a big footprint, but the not particularly successful attempt to make it look stylish has resulted in a design that prevents using the space beneath the screen for paper, your pad, or much of anything else. Gaah. It does permit effortless height and tile adjustment, provided you don't do so by grasping it in any of the intuitive places you'll reflexively reach for. (The usual translated-from-Korean-into-English-by-a-native-speaker-of-Hindi docs are quite hysterical on this point). The bezel at least minimal, black, and inconspicuous, but it's no masterpiece of industrial design either. The whole thing feels cheap, like none of its designers really loved it.And there's more… The bad documentation (on a CD - how quaint) is downright threatening on using anything other than the supplied cordage, but the cables and power cord are so short unpacking them feels like a comedy routine. Unless your CPU sits on your desk next to the display and happens to have an AC outlet behind it, you'll likely have to make some accommodations. (I ended up drilling holes in furniture.) It's ludicrous: the power cord is the shortest in my house. After 30 years of IT work, I of course have quite a cable graveyard, and the supplied data cables are also the shortest in the house.The joystick used to control its ridiculous number of settings is, like the stand, something designed to appeal to twelve year old gameboys that is in practice just plain annoying. It's a _terrible_ interface, particularly when you're sitting at a computer and realize you have a ridiculous toy in lieu of a good software solution. I don't want to touch the screen. Ever. I have great interface under my hands, but LG chose not to use it. The app LG does supply is worse than the silly joystick – a lame, ill-conceived thing that only adds insult to injury. Fortunately, I don't need or want 95% of it's features, and it's easy to pretend the whole mess doesn't exist.Despite being compatible on paper, I had trouble getting the display to play nicely with my Radeon RX 580 GPU. LG support is nonexistent. I'm not sure what's required to get their attention, but it appears nothing short of plane ticket and a gun will do it. Their online forums are Kafkaesque in their absurdity. (I learned nothing about my display, but did garner several interesting facts about washing machines. Yes, you heard me. Washing machines.). I've given up on ever seeing 5120x2160, and don't really want to read hi def text the size of bee feet anyhow, but still.Of course that's all (ahem) peripheral. The screen is the thing, right? About the screen…. It's wide, but it's also short. After two days of using it, I'm still not sure that's such a good thing. I'm not clear the blockbuster movie aspect ratio is the thing for desktop work. If you're intent is to watch action movies on it, you may feel very differently. It sits in my field of vision with its full width out of my eyespan, and its full height not filling it. Disappointing, but clearly my bad for not taping it out on the wall before I bought it.The picture is most definitely gorgeous, and I've made life difficult by locating it in a place where the ambient light varies drastically, and where glare could be a problem. It isn't. The picture is gorgeous. I had to tweak the color a bit. (I understand TV newscasters are in fact clowns, but I have a thing about clowns and prefer that the faces on my screen not resemble them.)Bottom line? If I can find something better, I'll return the LG. I'm not sure there is anything better, other than mortgaging a cat or two and acquiring Apple's latest offerings for more than the down payment my parents put on the house I grew up in. We'll see. I wonder if there's an Apple 30" Cinema Display out there somewhere that's been sitting sealed in a box for the past 10 years.