I was within inches of buying this this holiday season but was offput by people’s brightness complaints. Figured I could wait another iteration until either the brightness or the refresh rate gets better… the 5K2K seems like the move though.

In practice, the brightness and refresh rate have not been an issue in a software development / home office setting. It has been more than enough.

For gaming it isn't as desirable. HDR also gives the brightness a boost for media so it is plenty fine for that too.

The only thing that I found annoying is lack of inputs. There is 1DP and 1TB, and 2 HDMI (60hz). I wanted at least 2DP and 2TB to be super useful with a dock and a few other inputs.

The size is perfect however.

If LG release an OLED version better brightness, you bet i'll be ordering that too. It has been so ideal, the ROI has been better than any monitor setup i've used.

This is really useful. Maybe I'll just yolo it and give it a shot. Display panel advancement doesn't seem to be as reliably "it'll come next cycle" anyway haha. Thank you for your input!

I don't think you'll regret it :) Personally, for web/dev/youtube/... I don't know how it took us SO LONG to get to this display dimension, aspect/resolution.

It seems so obvious once you start using it.

Could you expand on this a bit? How’s the ergonomics, window management, etc?

The curve is just right, the width is just right at ~60cm away. The ratio is the real winner. I can split it into thirds and each third has enough height (2160px) and width (1706px) to be useful. Each third is taller than it is wide, which is ideal for coding, web, documents.

It's more like having 3 portrait monitors for productivity work. For media editing, splitting the monitor into 2 is like a classic dual monitor setup with enough width for widescreen video.

Then, if you really need it, it works great as a single wide monitor without making the workspace too "letterbox" like other ultrawides.

Honestly, for me, it is the absolute ideal.