If you have a good $3500, you might just be able to nab what appears to be a new best-in-class screen for your desk.
The world of working from home mightn’t be as home-based for everyone as it was a few years ago, but for many, the desk is still a place that matters.
Whether you work from home or somewhere else, chances are you have a monitor plugged into your machine to either give you a bigger picture or just let you expand the screen on offer.
It might even be two screens or a portable screen, affording extra screen real estate in a way that you can carry with you. Everyone has options.
One option available is to grab a large and sharp display, looking for something with a greater resolution than the typical Full HD many screens come with, and settling on more display real estate with better quality overall.
There are 4K monitors, and there are 5K monitors, but if you need that little bit more, there is now a 6K monitor, as LG brings the goods.
The world’s first 6K screen is the LG UltraFine Evo 6K, a 32 inch model (32U990A) that sports a staggering 21 million pixels through its 6144×3456 screen resolution and a pixel density of 224 pixels per inch.
The screen covers 99 percent of the Adobe RGB colour gamut, 98 percent of the DCI-P3, and also includes colour presets for Macs intended to improve colour accuracy on those devices, with support for Thunderbolt 5 also here alongside recent Mac and a handful of PCs.
Backwards compatible with Thunderbolt 4 and before, the support for Thunderbolt 5 effectively means the screens can run at high-speed, as can devices that use TB5 for data, providing up to 80Gbps of speed when transferring files.
There’s more than just a Thunderbolt connection on the back, supporting HDMI, standard-sized DisplayPort, and USB-C, though computers with a Thunderbolt 5 port can use that connection to power their laptop with up to 96W delivery, handling some of the meatiest machines.
LG’s display also comes with some neat additions, such as the ability to rotate and work in both landscape and desktop, while the screen supports multi-monitors through daisy chaining, too.
It may cost you a bit to do several LG 6K UltraFine models all connected to one, another, though: the LG Evo 6K screen is priced at $3399 in Australia, making it a fairly high-priced monitor. You’ll find it from LG now, though, handy if that cost didn’t make you flinch one iota.
