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Review on 🖥️ LG Electronics 43UD79-B LED Lit Monitor - 42.5", 3840X2160P, Six Axis Control, Reader Mode, DAS Mode, Factory Calibration, HD, IPS by Sean Rao

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The software that comes with it sucks, but I don't want or need a 4X.

Thing is really big but even at 4k resolution I can read printed text just as well on my two old 24" monitors and now I have everything on one monitor. want or need 4 X PIP. I can use the software though don't uninstall. But the setup for a MacBook Pro with USC-C was great. Just plug in the USB-C cable and you're done! No driver required. It just works. A limitation that might be a problem for some people. Well, two. firstly, as a few others have pointed out, although it claims to be able to charge a macbook pro, it actually doesn't. It's oddly inconsistent, though. I once tried not plugging the power adapter into the MBP, and within a day the battery dropped to about 75%. The next morning it was back to 100%. I thought I could live with that. But the next day the battery was dead as a rock. I tried several times and found that it sometimes drains the battery just a little bit, sometimes a lot. However, it will not charge when the computer is in sleep mode and the monitor is in sleep mode. Another potentially serious problem is the sound. It has a headphone jack that routes audio over DisplayPort (although it's native USB-C, it's NOT Thunderbolt 3 and instead uses DisplayPort over USB-C for video and audio). Everything is fine with the sound, but there is no way to adjust the volume from the computer. The volume keys on my Bluetooth keyboard no longer work. To my knowledge there is no solution for this. So it gets more complicated, especially if, like me, you play music most of the day, but different types at different volumes. I can play classical, opera, rock, blues and country all in the same day. Grabbing the remote control from the monitor is a pain. And you have the problem that you can only control the volume of the system. So when you turn it on to listen to the music, your alarms can be deafening! There is some open source software called "Background Music" that can help a bit as you can turn down the volume for some apps and turn it up for iTunes. And I've found that I can route system alerts to the onboard speakers (inside the MBP), which drastically reduces the volume (and the fear factor!). But I really want my volume buttons. Of course, this can be avoided by connecting a sound system to the MBP instead of a monitor. But it also annoys me that so many things can be plugged in and unplugged. So choose your poison. While this isn't a criticism of the monitor, you have to understand that it's actually huge. As in "crooked throat from looking up". So I ordered a monitor arm that can lower it just far enough to reduce the risk of neck pain. It won't be low enough for the usual eye-level advice on the monitor - who has that much space between their eyes and keyboard? But it will be low enough to be of great help. So it's a great monitor with some annoying "features".

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Pros
  • ‎Requires 2 AAA batteries.
Cons
  • Bad ergonomics.

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