Hahaha. We don't want monitors to be build like Rome...
No, we don't. The point is that some people think everything will happen right now. There are some on this forum. And
IT DOESN'T.
Progress is there, granted, but if you offer allegedly premium product, there are floor expectations from such product. Asus cannot cheapen out on DP 2.1 ports on a monitor that can take a full advantage of new VESA's standard. It's terrible what they did here - two steps forward and one step back. Full image on this monitor needs almost 70 Gbps of data. Why on Earth not offer DP 2.1 port to consumers? Beggars belief...
If we keep quiet, we get five generations of CPUs with 4 cores...
Not me. I am fully satisfied with many products, for example legendary LG's 4K/120 OLED TV Series 9 from 2019. Fantastic generation that got almost everything enabled what was possible at that time and kept receiving firmware updates for several years.
I never said you. I just said "some people." Read it again. I am one of those people who is satisfied with many things I own. I'm also the owner of an LG C2 OLED, wonderful device.
But for certain, some people are unhappy with everything.
Not true entirely. You need to plough through and filter out noise and tap into the biggest democratization of knowledge in history of humankind.
In 2013, yes, for sure. In 2023, no way. Over-commercializations, scammers, and AI are well on their way to destroying all of that, or at least burying the good stuff so deep it's hard to find.
There is almost as much misinformation on the Internet as there is actual knowledge. Search engines don't know the difference and won't prioritize the good stuff anymore because of SEO and other monetization shenanigans.
And none of this is new. If you know how search engines work (and don't work), it's not difficult to trick them. Remember all of the "weapons of mass destruction" antics? Early episode of that.
Anyhow the point is that this monitor addresses a certain segment of the consumer buying audience. It's not meant to be the end-all device. Like I said, Asus undoubtedly has other prototypes in their labs and they specifically selected this BOM to become a shipping product.
And didn't the Lovelace generation (RTX 40-series) stay at DisplayPort 1.4 anyhow? GeForce RTX is the dominant discrete GPU for the DIY PC gamer community. As far as I understand, if you plug a DisplayPort 1.4 video card into a DisplayPort 2.x monitor, you still only get DisplayPort 1.4 features. Or am I wrong?
Asus -- as an AIB partner of both Nvidia and AMD -- may not be motivated to make their GeForce offerings look sucky on this monitor. They may be waiting on the RTX 50-series for a wide rollout of DisplayPort 2.x.
If you don't like it (and that's fine), go ahead and start your own consumer computing hardware company. It's easy for people like you I'm sure. And you will only make the right decisions for everyone all the time.
Complaining is fine too. Go bitch about it on social media: FB, X, Insta, whatever.
But the senior execs aren't reading TPU. They would be insane to make product line decisions based on what people say here. It gets nuttier and nuttier with each passing week. Toss in this mile-high stack of features, price it at $99 with a 20-year warranty and make it draw 0.01W. And screw your shareholders, we don't give a rat's arse about gross margins. Yes, that's the ticket, sell everything at COGS.
