Monday, January 9th 2023
Dell Announces 32-inch UltraSharp 6K Monitor With Thunderbolt 4 at CES
For those of you that find a 4K monitor to lack in resolution, but 8K being a bit too pricey, Dell announced a 6K option at CES in the shape of the 32-inch U3224KB monitor. The IPS Black panel features a 6144 x 3456 pixel resolution with 178 degree viewing angles, a contrast ratio of 2000:1 and it's also VESA DisplayHDR 600 certified. As this is a professional monitor, it offers a colour gamut that meets 99 percent of the DCI-P3 colour space, as well as 100 percent of the sRGB and Rec. 709 standards.
On the connectivity side, it supports Thunderbolt 4, with one input and one throughput, which includes 140 W power delivery, the highest we've seen to date from a monitor. It also has a pair of additional pop-out front facing USB-C ports, which can deliver 15 W of power, as well as a USB-A port, all of which are able to deliver data speeds of up to 10 Gbps and four rear mounted USB-A ports. Display inputs consist of one HDMI 2.1, one mini DP 2.1, one USB-C with unknown DisplayPort standard support, as well as one of the Thunderbolt 4 ports. Finally the U3224KB also features an RJ45 jack for Ethernet connectivity.
The bulge on top of the monitor is a 4K 30p webcam with a "dual gain" HDR CMOS sensor with an adjustable field of view of either 65, 78 or 90 degrees. On each side of the camera are a pair of 14 W speakers, as well as dual echo cancellation microphones. The stand supports tilt, pivot, swivel and height adjustment. Other nifty features include picture-by-picture and picture-in-picture support, as well as KVM support. Dell didn't provide any pricing, as the monitor isn't expected to launch until sometime later in the first half of this year.
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On the connectivity side, it supports Thunderbolt 4, with one input and one throughput, which includes 140 W power delivery, the highest we've seen to date from a monitor. It also has a pair of additional pop-out front facing USB-C ports, which can deliver 15 W of power, as well as a USB-A port, all of which are able to deliver data speeds of up to 10 Gbps and four rear mounted USB-A ports. Display inputs consist of one HDMI 2.1, one mini DP 2.1, one USB-C with unknown DisplayPort standard support, as well as one of the Thunderbolt 4 ports. Finally the U3224KB also features an RJ45 jack for Ethernet connectivity.
46 Comments on Dell Announces 32-inch UltraSharp 6K Monitor With Thunderbolt 4 at CES
No one thinks this. Seriously.
Trust me, when you use this, you won't want to go back to lower specs.
This is similar to driving a supercar, and then someone forces you back to your 1.4-litre Volkswagen Golf :D
For example a universal standard:
up to 10-inch: 1080p
up to 13-inch: 1440p
from 13-inch up to 30-inch: 2160p
from 30-inch up to 42-inch: 3240p
from 42-inch up...: 4320p and beyond
:)
I have an LG 27UL850-W as my primary monitor. Its built-in speakers are quite adequate for mundane desktop productivity functionality when the primary point is audio feedback instead of auditory fidelity, like e-mail notifications, alarms, etc.
The two systems (one Mac, one Windows PC) that drive this 27" monitor are also plugged into a small A/V receiver that outputs to better speakers. I only turn that on when I want/need better audio quality. I don't game on these two systems and I don't do much content consumption. I'll turn on this external sound system mostly when I want music while I'm working (which isn't all the time).
There's a secondary 32" monitor attached to another Windows PC (primarily for gaming) that has no built-in speakers. I attached a cheap soundbar for the desktop sounds, but I typically use a headset if I'm playing games on this setup.
My primary gaming PC is plugged into a 55" OLED television. This display feeds a conventional A/V receiver + speaker setup, the TV's own
built-in speakers are disabled.
I've owned notebook computers for 20+ years and even those I'll often use the built-in speakers even though audio fidelity is far better with headphones, earbuds, earphones, whatever.
With macOS and the right computer, you can direct desktop OS sounds (like e-mail inbox alerts) to one speaker (like the one built into my Mac mini) and other sounds (like YouTube in a web browser) to another audio device (like my LG monitor). Windows is sorta retarded this way, they don't make even this simple granularity of audio routing easy.
Of course, I've worked on many other video displays over decades of computer usage and without a doubt I've always used any built-in speakers at least some of the time for some situations.
In summary, sometimes I use a display's built-in speakers, sometimes I don't. It mostly depends on the usage case.
Different people have different usage cases which is why display manufacturers will often include built-in speakers for those who will use them. No one can please everyone all the time so it's silly for people to expect one model with one set of features for everyone all the time.
It really don't understand why but this sort of tunnel vision exists far more frequently on PC hardware Q&A forums than elsewhere on the Internet, including other topics (woodworking, cooking, arts & crafts, whatever). So odd.
Don't like them? Just disable them, but they're there if you ever need them.
(an exception to this is start up sounds or any similar bullshit without a disable option - that's not ok)
nobody wants this
when they can bring 90hz or 120hz to 6k, then we can talk
heh, I think my win7 laptop from 2013 is about to die anyway since the SSD chip is most likely dead along with the graphics card. :shadedshu:
Reality though, I'd rather have 1800p@27in than 2160p@32in.
I've had 32in before. It's too big for me. 1800p@27 is the same ppi but requring less power.