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all right what are my options we got a 4k screen oh man 4k so gorgeous especially working 4k video alright cooker cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo and then we have the beautiful curve 21 by 9 almost 4k resolution is smaller but so much real estate in the wide spectrum productivity but you know what my friends once you go 144 Hertz for gaming you never go back even if it's you know the prettiness on the ultra wide so if you're like me and trying to decide between these three panels and which one suits your purpose better we'll talk about all the advantages and disadvantages using 4k 21 by 9 or 144 hertz panels because usually you don't get all three of those elements and a single panel so we'll divide those into categories and see which one suits particular purpose better right after this the Graham spectrum keyboard bike Tesoro comes with a new mechanical agile switch with low profile key caps with super fast response and shorter actuation distance plus all the customization included with RGB lighting and macros for a premium user okay so let's start with what I've been using as my main screen for the last year and it's the 27-inch 4k LG 27 UD 88 that is my primary work monitor on which I do everything the extra detail of text and just fantastic color seals the deal but that is only after settling you know the scaling to 125 percent because otherwise everything is just way too small so real estate wise you get something similar to native 2560 by 1440 panel with a sharper image and we've all heard the following get the 4k panel if you're into any creative work but why is nobody mentioning scaling issues in Windows in some of the most common apps used in the industry like Adobe Photoshop now luckily for my work in Adobe Premiere I have no issues with scaling and get plenty of room for the UI but jump into Adobe Photoshop and all the UI panels receive the miniature treatments that don't scale with your windows settings which is kind of weird and it's also insulting to only have 100 or 200 percent scaling in Photoshop options so you either get for tiny text that is very difficult to see or too large text that occupies a lot more of the screen than I want luckily Adobe Lightroom has more customization like 150% scaling to make UI panels more visible without that eye fatigue but again everything at 4k at the 100% scaling is just way too small so you have to scale it up as early please however if you are an Apple user you have more scaling options with your 4k display that actually carry over into Photoshop making it much more comfortable experience because you get the benefit of a super detailed image without the annoying UI scaling inconsistencies that we find in Windows but regardless for creative work lean towards UHD 4k because it's licensed here it's nice and detailed and not really 21 by 9 because as much as it looks cinematic and you know very cool-looking it just doesn't work for creative work okay okay but having said that the ultra white is a very unique aspect that is absolutely amazing for compatible content that fills the full screen without all the black bars on either side but that is quite difficult to come by and majority of the time you will still watch that 16 by 9 content with the black bars on the sides that I despise and for video editing the only advantage I find is the horizontally expanded time line and because we have the extra wide real estate you can see more preview windows and comfortably have more UI panels open without overcrowding your software so in that aspect it's fantastic but majority of the ultra whites are unfortunately curved that for me kills the creative purpose as all of your lines on the screen are skewed and how are you supposed to know your reference composition plus there's the bowtie effect and I really don't know how people can use curved ultra-wide monitors for video or photo editing and resolution wise interestingly this panel here has less pixels and the 4k uhd panel over here so text is not as detailed in comparison is still pretty fine but you can maybe make out some pixelation in font when looking very close no way can you see pixels on that screen so take as you will but for productivity Wow really nice to have a stacking of windows having three windows open side by side very comfortable to view you can do a lot of work without having to reopen things and just a lot of a wide real estate that is a major advantage on the ultra wide but finding that occasional media in the cinema format that fills the full screen is so worth it you know in the sea of all the black bars so then where do 144 Hertz monitors fit within this conversation and this is where gaming is dominated by the high refresh rate panels seriously once you go on how many 44 Hertz you never go back and if you do it's just like me now it's very difficult to demonstrate just how fluid 144 Hertz feels but here is cursor movement in slow motion and you can see that 60 Hertz refresh cycle is very slow in comparison to 144 Hertz and this means checking corners in csgo for example allows you to be much quicker because the screen does not blur when you do those fast movements and that is a major advantage for competitor games and in particular one returning to my sixty Hertz panel you know I saw that the cursor movement was very sluggish but you know 4k gaming is kind of overrated anyway in my opinion so it's very demanding on your system and regardless I would choose 2560 by 1440 P anyway so that it's like that sweet spot for the resolution it lets them to squeeze extra image quality instead while 21 by 9 gaming is pretty unique with so much in your peripheral vision but still some games would stretch the sides that will not be pleasant so for guaranteed solid gameplay choose high refresh rate and Q HD is possible all right so let's conclude this conversation and 4k uhd is awesome on the Mac it's excellent on Windows provided your applications can follow your Windows set scalings you know like not like Photoshop but why would you want the game at 4k I would prioritize on high refresh rate and good quality panel first and then choose your resolution as the last deciding factor you know based on your you know available budgets and stuff like that and it's for ultra y21 by 9 it's a unique merge of high resolution gaming and also high refresh rate because there are panels available 100 Hertz in the ultra wide format that is very unique but they're really expensive so I would focus on the ultra wide format to be targeted for productivity with something that does not intersect creative work so yeah I hope that helps let me know if you agree with my generalization between the usage for 144 Hertz 21 by 9 or 4k so yeah let me know which market are you using and what would be the next element that you are excited to experience let me know in the comments down below I'm Dimitri with how it connects thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next video and don't forget 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