Every ginormous “4k2k” or whatever display is just that: ginormous, so the actual pixel density is much lower, and is comparable to a typical (smaller, 1440p, etc) display.
I suspect this is because the fabrication of the LCDs is tuned to a particular pixel size, so if a company wants to make a 4K monitor, they scale existing LCD production up to a large enough size that they can get it 2160 pixels tall (by however wide), and that’s the size of the display. They can advertise having both a large display (which people like) and 4K (which people like), so there’s no downside to the manufacturers.
But if you want actual high pixel density, 200+PPI, your options are basically an Apple monitor (LG’s apple-sold display notwithstanding), or a smartphone.
(I’d love to be proven wrong on this! My holy grail monitor is 200+ppi, 120+Hz, large (27”+), and ideally ultrawide, but alas, such a thing doesn’t exist.)
- fast pixel response (CRTs are close, but the light to dark transitions fail)
- strobing, or a refresh rate that is high enough such that there is no blur (240Hz still doesn't fix this)
- at least 100Hz or so (perhaps only because I haven't used stuff over 144Hz enough yet)
- non glossy without grainy artifacts
- retina pixel density
- no viewing angle issues
- *at least* as good contrast as a 90% dead CRT I got in the trash
- no bloatware in the monitor or whatever they do that adds tons of input lag for no reason
- no local dimming type artifacts that (obviously) local dimming causes, but more importantly what the alpha OLEDs have
- low minimum brightness. most LCDs even at the lowest settings are far too bright
- the option of warm color temperatures
- perfectly flat screen, and pixel sharpness, for the sake of being fair (but the latest CRTs almost pass)
- no backlight bleedThere are plenty of 13" 1440p laptop panels being made. You just have to mate 4 of them together to make a 26" 5K display and yet this isn't done. Hell, I'd just settle for someone selling 13/15" 1440p/4K panels in a cheap, thin bezel enclosure with a VESA mount on the back for $250 - $400 a pop and I could make my own 5K/6K display for cheaper than what they're selling for.
edit: in case anyone knows, I see this monitor "requires two DisplayPorts" for full 8k. Does anyone know if I can plug two display ports into a docking station, and one cord out of the docking station into my 14" m1 mbp? Ideally this would also charge the mbp. Is this possible? If I were to buy such an expensive monitor, I really only want one cord.
That said, the easiest way to get this working is probably to get one of the TB->PCIe expander chassis and plug in an external GPU and let it drive the display.
Desktop PC's/workstations still have their place, and driving multiple high resolution monitors is one of them.
PS: Been drooling over that monitor for the past couple years as an upgrade to my dell 5K's I picked up when apple released their first standalone 5k monitor and more than a few high end mac users apparently ebay'ed their dell monitors to get the apple version. Their loss, my gain... :) Hey apple, why don't you release a 8K monitor? Lol.
(PS: There are a couple other manufactures putting that panel in monitors (viewsonic for one), so its not just dell, and a bunch of 8K tv's if you want higher resolution).