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points by nine_k 2 days ago | 0 comments

I totally don't care about refresh rates above 60 Hz. I do not enjoy but can tolerate even 30 Hz.

What I care about is resolution, color fidelity, color gamut, viewing angles, (anti-)glare, even how quickly the monitor wakes up. I don't play competitive FPS games, I do coding, graphics, and video work on my monitors.

[–] relativeadv 1 day ago

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/compare/lg-27gm950b-b-v...

The $800 LG outperforms the studio display in almost every dimension you mention.

[–] whynotminot 1 day ago

What you’re paying for with an Apple branded monitor is effectively opting out of the panel lottery.

Look at the reviews for that LG. Sure the specs on the tin are better but quality control looks like garbage.

Apple does not accept that. I have never got a bad Apple screen in any Apple product I have ever bought. Not the case from other companies.

[–] xyzzy_plugh 1 day ago

This is pretty funny. As someone who has overseen the purchase of thousands of high end LGs and maybe a hundred Apple monitors, we saw many, many more issues with the Apple monitors.

Their lower tier monitors have issues but so do literally every other manufacturer. The high-end LGs are very good and QC as of 2026 has been phenomenal.

[–] whynotminot 1 day ago

Just look at the reviews on the Amazon page for the LG in question man. It’s got like a 3 out of 5.

[–] bigyabai 1 day ago

Amazon reviews have lacked proportionality to product quality for at least 10 years now.

[–] chocochunks 1 day ago

There's plenty of bad panels in Apple displays posted on Reddit and other forums.

(e.g., https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/studio-displays-with-sc...)

Maybe the panel lottery is more in your favour but it isn't gone.

[–] whynotminot 1 day ago

Apple sells millions of these displays I did not say you wouldn’t be able to find a Reddit thread with some problems.

“But ackshully” — you fully understand the point I was making!

[–] NBJack 2 days ago

I dunno. Scrolling around at 120+hz on web pages can be hard to let go. I have a few monitors around my home running at 120 or better, and it's painful to go back to 60hz sometimes.

[–] Dylan16807 2 days ago

I don't like smooth scrolling so my web pages might as well be scrolling at 10Hz for how much it matters visually.

[–] ProllyInfamous 1 day ago

Thought this way until 144Hz; now 30Hz is cheese-grated-eyeballs, and 60Hz ponders "is something wrong/corrupted with this slow/glitchy system?"

I spent three decades @30Hz, and just the past few ≥60Hz@4K... as I've aged I appreciate the analogue more, and the jarring stutters of 30Hz are constant reminders of computized digitality.

Also, PoE at 144Hz is incredible (I went from <30Hz to 144Hz with this one simple trick: $1000 5070Ti, which turns out was actually a great investment, too [today's price $1449]). But so is scrolling through walls of text, now.

¢¢

[–] Dylan16807 1 day ago

Well I'll let you know I have a 120Hz screen and I will only game on that screen.

But a web page just sits there. And I never scroll slowly enough for refresh rate to matter, I go for big jumps that look the same on anything faster than e-ink. The benefit I get from a faster screen during normal desktop activities is slightly better mouse precision and latency.

[–] skybrian 1 day ago

It seems unfortunate to become so sensitive to frame rate that you can only buy high-end equipment. I wonder how that can be avoided?

[–] raegis 1 day ago

It can happen by accident. I assembled a system for my son (for "gaming"), and noticed that the window movement on his monitor was significantly smoother than on the cheaper monitors I'm accustomed to. It was just...nice. So I upgraded the monitor on my desktop too.

[–] ProllyInfamous 1 day ago

>It was just...nice.

In psychedelic tongue: it drips well.

And it's getting so inexpensive (I can easily price many 120Hz systems, barely above $1000)!

How much (approx) was your son's build?

[–] ProllyInfamous 1 day ago

I cannot distinguish between 120Hz and 144Hz.

I avoid any-higher refresh rates, by your own reasoning =P

I still maintain an entire fleet of 30Hz equipment, but my main two machines are each 144Hz (sharing one screen $$). The $600 Mac Mini handles this easily. Obviously the other's nVidia GPU is a different $tory$$$$ == PoE@144Hz so_pretty

My favorite digital reading method, conversely, is probably less than 1Hz (eInk)? But even hundred of pages of text I'll always prefer printouts.

[–] sgt 1 day ago

Exactly - I've looked at a lot of monitors. Including top end Dells, one of which I have currently. But nothing that I see beats the Studio Display at its price point. Also 60Hz is perfectly fine on that screen, maybe 60Hz feels different on others for those who feel this is inadequate.