{"id":2662,"date":"2015-09-28T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2015-09-28T12:06:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:06:25","slug":"my-new-4k-monitor-on-my-mac-its-unreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/my-new-4k-monitor-on-my-mac-its-unreal\/","title":{"rendered":"My new 4K monitor on my Mac: it&#8217;s unreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.frys.com\/art\/product\/300x300\/8479528.01.prod.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>My first &#8220;monitor&#8221; was a TV that displayed 320&#215;200 in four (!) colors. 640&#215;400 in black-and-white was beyond its ability.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Fry&#8217;s had an excellent deal: UpStar <strong>28-in<\/strong> monitor with native <strong>3840 x 2160<\/strong> resolution, for <strong>$219<\/strong> after rebates.<\/p>\n<p>So my wife went out and got two :-) I&#8217;ve been gaping at it ever since. It&#8217;s unreal.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, at 28&#8243;, it takes up almost my entire field of vision. And boy does it have many pixels!<\/p>\n<p>If I take a 80&#215;24 terminal window as the measuring stick, I can put 7 entire terminals from the left to right (perhaps 8 if I squeezed). And 5 down. 35 terminals on the same screen!<\/p>\n<p>Coding, and editing, etc. is never going to be the same, because I can see ALL OF IT at the same time, no overlapping windows, with values of ALL OF IT that are larger than my short-term memory about what ALL OF IT was.<\/p>\n<p>The only downside is that I do need to wear glasses to take advantage of it :-) But that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n<p>Recommendation: think about it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first &#8220;monitor&#8221; was a TV that displayed 320&#215;200 in four (!) colors. 640&#215;400 in black-and-white was beyond its ability. This weekend, Fry&#8217;s had an excellent deal: UpStar 28-in monitor with native 3840 x 2160 resolution, for $219 after rebates. So my wife went out and got two :-) I&#8217;ve been gaping at it ever&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[405,404],"class_list":["post-2662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-personal","tag-4k","tag-monitor","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2662"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2667,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2662\/revisions\/2667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}