hey tech late here and welcome back to
another episode of the tech lead I'll be
your host the tech lead my name is the
tech lead and I am the tech lead I'm
drinking black instant coffee today goes
down smooth I wanted to show you what
I've gotten myself for my holiday gift
and that is something that I've been
thinking about for a long time actually
and question me myself asking myself if
it's really what I want and you know
I've been trying it out for a while and
it's been great and it is this the ultra
white thank you ex 3501 arm monitor I've
been having so much fun with this
monitor you know the last monitor I got
must have been ten years ago and it was
a disastrous experience I hated it so
much the color accuracies were no good
the resolution was bad it was bulky big
the contrast ratio was horrible it was
hard to use I just thought you know
laptop monitors are actually far better
than external monitors I'm just giving
up monitors altogether and that gave up
external monitors for a long time only
recently have I decided well maybe it's
time to take another look give it
another chance when I made my last video
on my desk set up a lot of people were
surprised I wasn't using an external
monitor and I still felt pretty good
about myself because I didn't want a
monitor to take up a bunch of desk space
I thought that my desk looked a lot
cleaner without the external monitor and
you know laptop monitors are just so
good the MacBook Pro retina monitor this
quality is something that external
monitors simply cannot beat you've got
200 plus PPI really good colors
excellent IPS display and just very good
all-around so what made me change my
mind well that's a good question if you
take a look at this monitor there's a
few things that are very interesting
about it okay it is curved 35 inches HDR
and ergonomically looks very clean very
thin bezels and the amount of space that
takes on the desk is very minimal as
soon as I received this and plugged it
in there was no looking back for me I
was also pleasantly surprised when I
hooked up my PlayStation 4 to the
monitor and found that it could play HDR
enabled games so I was playing the
shadow of the Tomb Raider in HDR so much
fun I would say that the HDR colors and
support isn't as good as HDR TV but
still I was able to get some improvement
in the colors and it's been great having
this external monitor allowed me to
actually free up the living room TV for
my wife to watch other TV shows in the
evening for the processing is very
important for me I take a lot of photos
and one of my largest annoyances with
prior displays was that I would process
a photo and when I have viewed the photo
on another person's monitor it would be
like the skin tones would be blue or red
and people would say what's wrong with
your photos they look horrible and I
would say well it looks good on my
computer and you know this is because
love external monitors aren't properly
color calibrated and they don't support
the full srgb color gamut space even if
you try to calibrate the colors
oftentimes the colors will still come
out wonky and you can't trust the colors
that you see that was one big reason I
gave up external monitors and just went
straight for using whatever the MacBook
showed me because I know that MacBook
colors are going to be at least the same
across millions of other devices that
everyone else is using you know
including iPhone devices for example
but the great thing about this monitor
is it supports the four sRGB color space
and plus it also supports macbook colors
if you want to view it that way and so
the great thing is that I know there's
the colors on the MacBook look very very
similar to the colors on the monitor
which is exactly what I need for further
processing you're just having really
good accurate color reproduction made
this completely usable for me beyond
that the ergonomics of an ultra wide
monitor have just been really fun in
terms of productivity and just sitting
back in the evenings and surfing than
that I can just open up multiple windows
do many things at the same time just
multitask easier it's just been more
productive for me and I find that yeah
sure I can suffer a little bit more and
use a smaller screen but I didn't see
any real loss and adding an external
monitor that just improved my overall
standard of living quality of life
and you know I think that's really what
this is about the thing to note for me
is as a minimalist if I'm going to be
adding something to my equipment setup
it better be good I'm not going to just
be using any old random monitor I don't
even want I would just throw that I
would trash it whatever I add better be
good and I was pleasantly surprised that
this monitor has been great let me show
you how thin this monitor is actually so
as you can see this monitor doesn't take
up that much space on my desk it
actually has a fairly low profile you
can see that the bezels are pretty thin
and the other great thing that this
monitor has is a light sensor here this
light sensor automatically adjusts the
color temperature and the pregnancy's of
the display so that you don't have to
fiddle with the brightness all the time
I know that a lot of people probably
haven't had the chance to experience an
ultra-wide monitor yet I know I didn't I
didn't even know that such monitors were
really a thing and it turns out that
these are a lot of fun they make viewing
movies or gaming very immersive
encompassing and also helps with
multitasking putting multiple windows
side-by-side so this one is the Bank UX
3501 are highly recommend that lots of
fun I have a link for you guys in the
description below if you want to check
it out so it's been an awesome Christmas
gift for myself that'll do for me if you
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holidays