This is a realistic review of the LG ultrawide curved monitor 49WL95C
Let me first say I am thrilled with my monitor, it has made
my workspace so much better and improved my workflow, but I paid way too much
for it.
I had triple 27 inch monitors but the stand that I had was
bulky, and I felt l had to turn my neck too much to see the end of the left and
right monitor, plus the center monitor was immovable. 3 27 inch monitors is too much.
The 49 inch monitor is the equivalent of 2 twenty seven inch
monitors and it feels like the same visual real estate as having 3 27 inch
monitors because to be honest the very ends of both sides seem just too far out
of visible range because of how close I stand to it.
Here are the pros and cons.
Let me start with the cons.
I thought the curve would have more of a noticeable effect
but it doesn’t. It doesn’t matter
though. I was concerned the curve would
distort. It doesn’t. I don’t even realize the monitor is curved which I think was the intention.
The stand is the number one problem. It takes up way too much desk real estate,
but I understand in order to support this monitor, it has to be large. The monitor is heavy. It does rotate and have all the motion I need
so that is nice, but I think I’m going to purchase the Ergotron monitor arm as
soon as I get some disposable income.
Which brings me to the price.
This monitor is way overpriced. I paid about $1250 for the monitor (which
included free shipping).
But my triple monitor setup with the stand was half the price
and more viewing area.
If all things were priced the same, I’d go with the 49 inch
ultrawide monitor in a heartbeat.
But if you already have triple monitors, the benefits you
will gain I don’t think are worth the price.
The screen seems to be made of the same materials my previous
monitors were made of.
My laptop is only able to display 3840 x 1080. My 2014 Macbook a little bit more.
I believe the max resolution is 5120 x 1440. But you have to use the displayport cable and
have a graphics card that supports it.
Had I thought this through, I could have purchased a monitor
the same size with the max resolution 3840 and saved about $500 but at least my
investment should last me longer.
There is a speaker built into the monitor, but its not that
good. I still use my Bose speakers. The speaker sounds like laptop speakers but
if they were a little bigger. Not high
end but not bad if you don’t have good speakers already. If I didn’t have good speakers, I would still
buy good speakers. The speakers are
passable but don’t match the luxury of the monitor.
The monitor has a 60 hz refresh rate. The gaming monitors have 120-160 refresh
rates. I don’t even know how that
impacts me. I do IT work on it and edit
video. Im not a pc gamer. I have consoles like ps4 and xbox one that my
wife uses more than I do.
Clicking the Maximize button which is such a habit from
having triple monitors now expands the application to the entire screen.
This is fine when I’m using Camtasia, Final Cut Pro or other
editing software, but not when I’m multitasking at work.
I installed PowerToys for when I need to work with multiple
screens but I guess its just something to get used to.
You’re basically paying 1250 to not have bars in between your
screens. To me, it’s worth it, but the
one thing I miss from the triple screens is being able to maximize.
And because you’re not hitting maximize, it feels like the
applications never are tall enough. Even
though these monitors are the same height as my 27 inch mointors it feels like
theyre not. I’ve held my old monitors up
to this new one and they are the same height dimension.
When I’m screensharing with people at work, if I share my
entire desktop, it’s hard for them to see so much real estate in the screen
share that it appears as a small rectangle and its hard for them to see if they
don’t use the zoom feature, so I usually share out an application, but if the
application works with other applications I then have to keep changing my
share.
Here are the pros.
The 4 usb ports on my monitor along with the ports on my
laptop docking station allowed me to get rid of my USB hub which allowed some
cable management improvement.
The screen is beautiful
Editing videos is so much easier and enjoyable.
Something I hadn’t anticipated and didn’t realize I needed
was file management. I take tons of
screenshots and photos and like to organize everything into folders, and spend
a day a week doing this, and its allowed me to see so much more on the screen
to sort out and select which allows me to get through the tasks of sorting so
much quicker.
Once I get the Ergotron arm, I will have gained a lot of
spac.e
Having one large monitor is nicer in appearance than having 3
monitors.
Every day when I walk into my office and see the screen I
feel like such a superstar.
The menu is nice and easy to navigate. It even keeps track of how long your monitor
has been turned on. Mine has been turned
on for 315 hours already.
It has multiple monitor ports and you can have multiple
inputs. So my laptop goes in one of the
HDMI ports and my macbook goes into the other.
I’m going to purchase the displayport cable to see if that squeezes any
additional pixels. The instruction
manual has a chart of all of the different combinations.
It sounds like there aren’t many pros, but I’m very happy
with the screen and don’t want to go back.
The only buyers remorse I have is had I realized that even my macbook
couldn’t experience the full glory of the 5120 x 1440 resolution, I would have
just opted for the lower resolution ultrawide monitor and saved $500 and put
that towards the ergotron arm.
I spent too much money on this monitor, but I wanted it. I wanted it ever since I was at the Dell
World conference and saw Dell’s version of the Ultrawide. I suspect their monitor would perform similar
to this LG monitor. Theirs was more
expensive so I bought this already overpriced LG model. This is a luxury item, so you’re paying a luxury
price.
Triple Monitors accomplishes the same thing but I still
prefer having the Ultrawide.
I did lose some habitual features but I’m adapting myself.
There are probably more specs I could give you about this,
but there are other videos that show off all of that stuff, I’m trying to give
you a realistic review from someone that actually purchased the item. LG didn’t sponsor this video. I forked over the hard earned cash so I’m
giving you a hard earned review.
I’m happy with the monitor.
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Hopefully this review was helpful. If you have any questions
I’ll try and answer them in the comments.
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