AOC’s latest premium panel comes at a price
WE LIVE IN AN AGE when tablet computers with high-DPI IPS screens are handed out in boxes of Corn Flakes (other corn based cereals are available). Well, almost. Similarly, you’re nobody in the smartphone game without a decent high-DPI IPS panel at the very least. To be really competitive, you’re talking OLED technology.
Yet the one device that could both most benefit from and make the best use of such displays lags miles off the pace, wheezing along as other devices dip over the horizon. Yes, we speak of the PC. That’s not to say the PC monitor market has been stagnant. Far from it, what with the arrival of adaptive sync, HDR, and super-wide aspect ratios. Resolutions and panel sizes are up, too.
This story is from the August 2017 edition of Maximum PC.
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