{"id":28943,"date":"2020-05-14T15:09:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T19:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=28943"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T19:09:02","slug":"dell-ultrasharp-49-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/14\/dell-ultrasharp-49-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell UltraSharp 49 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/05\/14\/dell-ultrasharp-49-review\/\">Ben Lovejoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2020\/05\/14\/dell-ultrasharp-49-review\/\"><p>Thin bezels, single-cable connection, and the ultra-wide format <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/20\/benq-ex3501r-review\/\">I fell in love with<\/a> a couple of years ago.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If you&rsquo;re used to an Apple Thunderbolt Display 27, or any other 2560&#xD7;1440 monitor, you&rsquo;re going to be perfectly happy with the quality. However, if you&rsquo;re used to either working directly on the MacBook Pro display or any doubled-pixel one, like the LG UltraFine 5K, then text will definitely seem less sharp.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>When viewing photos or video, however, the quality is stunning. As I said last time, it&rsquo;s not a pro monitor &#x2013; and doesn&rsquo;t have a pro monitor price tag &#x2013; but I think even enthusiastic photographers will be more than happy with this. Photo editing on this size monitor is going to be a dream.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The Dell UltraSharp 49 does offer an alternative setup: you can split the monitor in half and create two virtual 27-inch monitors, each 2560&#xD7;1440.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That makes a lot of sense because then you could put the menus in the middle, easily snap windows to the middle &ldquo;edge,&rdquo; and zoom to half the screen. In most cases, I don&rsquo;t even want full-width windows on a 27-inch display.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/26\/the-great-monitor-search-continues\/\">The Great Monitor Search Continues<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/31\/dells-massive-49-inch-5k-ultrawide-display\/\">Dell&rsquo;s Massive 49-Inch 5K Ultrawide Display<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/dell-ultrasharp-27-4k-premiercolor-monitor\/\">Dell UltraSharp 27 4K PremierColor Monitor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lovejoy: Thin bezels, single-cable connection, and the ultra-wide format I fell in love with a couple of years ago.[&#8230;]If you&rsquo;re used to an Apple Thunderbolt Display 27, or any other 2560&#xD7;1440 monitor, you&rsquo;re going to be perfectly happy with the quality. However, if you&rsquo;re used to either working directly on the MacBook Pro display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-05-14T19:09:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"40911731-109a-4491-b401-b66922374dd4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-05-14T19:09:06Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AQJEXMRCaRJG0AbZpIjdN1A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1497,838,30,1666,83],"class_list":["post-28943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-dell","tag-display","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-15","tag-retina"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28944,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28943\/revisions\/28944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}