Here are my thoughts after two months of use: kzread.info/dash/bejne/goeFs9d8hKvRfNI.html

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

If you are a Mac user and you want to update the firmware, you will need a Windows laptop. At the time of this writing, that is the only way. If you do not have a Windows laptop, there might be options with Bootcamp or Parallels but I can't confirm that. Please check the internet for alternatives before buying if updating firmware is important to you.

Yes I went through countless videos that focused on specs when all I wanted to know if it will look great with PS5 and with daily office work. You are the only video that gets to those points.

Thank you for this review. I've been looking everywhere for more details on the KVM functionality as I want to use this with my work laptop (1x USB C) and then switch to my Windows desktop (HDMI, USB etc) with one set of peripherals and you're the only place to have explained and show this in detail. I'll be picking this monitor up now!

@krazywabbit

4 ай бұрын

Thanks and hope it work out.

Hey man great review. Was really helpful to me as I was going to use this as an external monitor for my MacBook Pro and for future gaming! Thanks again

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Still rockin with it and loving it. I hope it brings you the same. Happy New Year!

Thank you very much for this video. it was very useful to me. Greetings from Italy 😄

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome. Have a good weekend. Salud.

Okay not gonna lie, that is a versatile monitor that solves many issues. Great talk!

I use an M1 Max MBP and really appreciate your VLOG. I got 2 M28U for $355 each - great value for money. Am planning to get a PC for gaming so KVM switch will be extremely handy.

@krazywabbit

10 күн бұрын

what a bargain! Happy gaming and viewing! Thank you and stay safe!

I really like your review style. It seems very balanced and as unbiased as possible. I am considering switching from my 4K 60Hz LG LG 27UK850 / BK85U to this monitor. My current monitor is fine, but now that I have an M1 Pro MacBook Pro, I want to take advantage of the 120Hz+ support. I also want a monitor that can be dual purpose for my gaming PC (connected via KVM). This seems to be the best "balanced" choice that checks all the boxes. One question I have - how is the text quality while running at the "More space" (and the default) display modes on your Mac? I know that non-Retina displays (even my current 4K monitor) sometimes have "jaggies" around certain text due to the lower PPI (pixels per inch) as compared to the Apple native display. However, I'm unwilling to spend $3,000 on a monitor, so I'm trying to determine if this is something I can live with for the budget price of ~$500 for the M28U. Also, I noticed this is FreeSync, but not G-Sync. My current gaming PC is running an Nvidia card, so I'm hoping it will work okay with G-Sync. Thanks again for this review. Hopefully you can see this comment and give me some insight!

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Eli. Hard in the space to give your opinions and come across as objective as possible. Try my best. Appreciate the question. I can answer your question in a few ways. Reply what I see, take a screen shot and a video. The best reply is to do the latter two and then let you decide, knowing that what you are viewing it on my skew the results. But being that I am human and therefore a hypocrite, lol, I'll toss in my perception with 51 year old eyes. I sit about 30 inches from the monitor. I normally wear glasses for distance. Without glasses and the setting at 2560X1440 or one box to the right of default, I can read text fine. Glasses, zero issues. When I goto 3840x2160 more spaces option, I need my glasses and although legible, it's a bit rough. I can make out text without glasses but I'm straining. I've never experience a high end Mac monitor, so I can't compare or answer which is better. Personally, I like $2500 extra in my pocket and if I need to move in a little closer or adjust the display, I am good. In all honesty, I've never had an issue with reading on this display. Then again, I am not pixel peeping looking for imperfections. I hope this answers your question and will do the video part later. Good luck and all the best!

You can change the HDMI ports from 2.1 to 2.0 in the setting if needed and you can also change the size and transparency of the osd setting menu so it doesn't take up too much of the display and get in the way. When you have a laptop connected through kvm you can shut the screen and it will display the laptop screen only on the monitor but you do lose access to the keyboard and trackpad. So if your laptop has a USB type a port I suggest getting an adapter that will turn the USB type A port into at least 2 USB type A ports so you can connect a keyboard and mouse. I don't suggest using a wireless keyboard and mouse because it can mess with your laptops performance. for me connecting my Bluetooth earbuds to my chromebook causes things to start buffering. And if you want to update the monitors drivers or firmware you need a laptop or PC that runs windows 10 or higher. The base settings on the monitor aren't the best but if you adjust it yourself or watch a KZread guide it will look a lot better and the colors will really pop. The monitor does have HDR but it's only HDR 400 so it is basically a knockoff version of HDR and it's really not good. Though the main reason to get this monitor is for the 4k at 144hertz at the same time instead of having to make compromises. Everything is great about the monitor except for the HDR.

thank you!

Hi, Krazy Wabbit, thanks for your video. I've just bought a M32U lately, and when I connect my iPad Pro to the Type C port on the back of the monitor, it only charges my iPad, not bringing anything to the monitor. So I'm curious if you have a special USB C cable instead of the one that comes from the iPad box. Cheers.

@krazywabbit

2 ай бұрын

Hey, thanks for the question. No special cable. I don't remember if one comes in the Gigabyte box as I've switched cables around so much. Hope you find the right one as it's been a good experience here. I think USB-C with data transfer. Sorry I am not of more help.

Great review. Did you ever consider the 32” option? Or would that just be too big for your setup?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

I did consider it. I don't think it wold have taken up that much more space. If I recall from my research, there was no extra advantage of going 32 and 28 seemed to be the top end of the range that would work for my set up. If you have the space and will be sitting further back from the screen, go for it. (I am just beyond an arms length from where I set to the monitor)

@bdubious

Жыл бұрын

@@krazywabbit gotcha ok. Yeah I’m considering a dual monitor desk setup, and was thinking the 32” would be pretty epic with two of them (this would be for work and gaming). But that miiiight just be too much on a sit/stand desk… perhaps 28” is the better move.

Thank you for this. I also have an M28U and am thinking of switching to a mac mini from a windows PC to use 144Hz. So the USB-C to Displayport cable information is helpful for me. What are your picture settings, do you keep them on standard values? The 15W output from USB-C is really enough to charge the Macbook air?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Picture settings for the monitor, I’ve not touched. Left at factory settings. Yes on the 15w. I’ve changed my setup and now use a MacBook Air for my work and no issues with it losing battery. Good luck and thanks for watching. Happy Holidays!

@RapManCZ

Жыл бұрын

@@krazywabbit Thank you for the answer. Do you see any performance difference between Mac Mini M1 and MacBook Air M1?

Just came across your helpful video! Question: do you enable HDR on the Mac? When I toggle that on while testing this monitor in the store it makes the image look washed out and kind of dull compared to with it off. What am I doing wrong?

@krazywabbit

5 ай бұрын

Glad it helped and sorry to hear about that. In the time I've own the monitor, I've never used HDR. I don't think I even used it with other monitors, if that was an option. I just switched it on and I get a nauseating greenish color. Yuck! Turning it off! Happy Holidays!

I have also done hours of research on upgrading my 1080P monitor to finally having 4K. Based on your excellent feedback here, I am going to get this one. Quick question: why did you not get the 32" version? Thanks very much for posting this video!

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

I went with the 28 to not eat up more real estate on the desk and I will be sitting at the desk vs on the couch for gaming. Based on my research, 24-28 was the sweet spot range for gaming and to reduce neck fatigue. No regrets. Kudos to you on doing your research and thanks for commenting! Cheers.

@rjjeffreys

Жыл бұрын

​@@krazywabbit thanks so much for your excellent feedback. The price of these monitors has finally come down a bit, and with holiday sales coming up, it should be even cheaper. So, I will be getting the 28" iteration. Thanks for your kind words here. I am looking forward to watching more well-researched and interesting content on your channel. Cheers, and happy holidays to you, and yours!

@liviudincartier

Жыл бұрын

Hi

@liviudincartier

Жыл бұрын

I just sent back a monitor because it is very eye straining, especially if you don’t have 1-1.5 meters distance between your eyes and the display.

Great review! Are you able to connect an Ipad to the monitor using USB-C?

@krazywabbit

10 ай бұрын

Sorry for not replying sooner. Yes.

Hey man, thanks for the review. Is that possible to turn off charging mac from the monitor and just use USB-C cable to transmit video signal?

@krazywabbit

9 ай бұрын

I’ve not found a way to do that.

I have no space available, but if I did...this would be the one.

I have a Macbook air M1 ( probably going to upgrade to macbook pro later this year) and was wondering if you think this monitor would work for what I want. If i understand correctly, you connected your macbook air to the monitor using the usb c ports on both devices and that still gives you high refresh rate at 4k resolution? and does that one cable also provide enough power to charge the macbook? is it a thunderbolt cable? If so I think this would be perfect for me

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

everything you said is correct in my setup. USB-C to USB-C cable going to MacBook. Charges and gets the 4k resolution. My only issue I've noticed (I shared this somewhere in an update) is the KVM switching to the Mac mini is a bit wonky at time. It could be my set up as I have a Mac extended keyboard and Magic Trackpad going into the M28U.

Thank you for your vid, very informative. I am trying to connect my M1 mac book pro to my M28U via usbc but i am not getting through, ony HDMI with an HDMI0USBC dongle. Can I ask what USBC or thunderbolt brand and type are you using from the laptop to the monitor? I also tried both the usbc charging cable and anoher generic usbc cable but no bueno.

@krazywabbit

5 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear. I’m using the cable that came with the monitor.

@ravitiwari3126

5 ай бұрын

Ok cool, thanks for your reply. Mines did not come with one in the box, only DP and hdmi. What usbc or thunderbolt do you suggest?

Do you perhaps know if there's a keyboard shortcut to switch between devices for the KVM for this monitor? Reaching out for the back of the monitor every time you want to switch seems...

@krazywabbit

6 ай бұрын

On my Mac, no. I don’t know about Windows.

Do you have any problem with the wake up after go to sleep? I read some problems about that and I don't know If have any solution with new firmware o something like that

@krazywabbit

5 ай бұрын

The only issue I’ve running into when sleeping is having to turn off/on the mouse or keyboard. But the monitor has not had any issues otherwise. I have Mac and haven’t found a way to do a firmware update

When I connect my MacBook with the c type cable, the keyboard and mouse connected to the monitor work. However, there is no display output, and it says “no signal”.. Any advice ? 🙏🙏

@krazywabbit

5 ай бұрын

Wish I had a correct answer. The only thing I can think of is trying another usb c to usb c cable. Assuming you have a MacBook Air M1 like I do and on the latest macOS.

Hello i just bought that monitor and its still on the way, i got the info that the usb c port that is on the m28u uses only 18 watts of power, is that ok or does it actually work to "charge" the macbook battery? or just turning on the charging indicator but not actually increasing the battery charge? Because the original macbook pro output adapter is 140W

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

I've had no issues charging the MacBook. I hope the monitor works out for you! Stay safe

If the image is being scaled to 1080 (default setting for 4k monitors as much as i know) on a 4K monitor to make text more accessible, would it impact the performance of the macbook ( cause i use my macbook at its peak performance very frequently and i won't need any performance issue if that impact highly on graphics components of the laptop). Maybe you can tell which is the best scaling setting for 4k 32 inch monitors on mac? also on amazon there is ARM and non ARM model of the monitor.... what does that mean?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

in terms of the ARM, the arm has some ergonomic movement vs non arm, no movement. As to your first question, I do not know. Perhaps someone else might see your question and can assist.

Hey mate, I have the same monitor with a M1 MacBook Pro, I'm trying to connect to the display using a USB-C to USB-C thunderbolt cable but nothing is showing up on the monitor. Did you have an issue with this?

@krazywabbit

3 ай бұрын

Hey. Sorry to hear. When I got the monitor, no. I’ve rearranged my setup and no longer use the MacBook with it. I’ll test later to see if it’s still working. What OS are you on?

@notmaassa

3 ай бұрын

@@krazywabbit I’m on the latest version of macOS, Sonoma 14.0 I think

Did you notice any scaling issue on Mac ? The performance are good enough with the scaling ?

@krazywabbit

Ай бұрын

I’m not the person to ask on that. I turn it on, it works and I can see. I don’t get into the weeds of that stuff. I looked for a monitor that didn’t break the bank and haven’t had any issues.

Hey how many what is the resolution and refresh rate on your monitor strictly over usb c. I can’t get it to go over 4k 60Hz.

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for asking. I have the M1 MacBook Air and a regular USB-C cable. I am seeing the options of 24, 60, 120, 144 and a variable option of 48-144. I did not do anything to the monitor out the box in terms of settings or updating the monitor (if that is even a thing)

I use iphone 14 pro max . I connect type- c to monitor and lighting to iphone. Charcing yes but picture not come on the screen . Why ?

@krazywabbit

3 ай бұрын

Sorry, can’t help as I don’t have that type of phone. My guess is that won’t work.

All you need is the display port cable to connect to the MacBook Pro via usb C and you will get the 120 hz on the gigabyte monitor?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

I use usb c to usb c for the MacBook Air. I just packed up my house to move and won’t have access to my monitor for eight days. I’m pretty sure I was getting 120hz but don’t quote me. I was on the Mac mini using the cable mentioned for that device.

Does the single USB-C connected to the monitor charge your macbook and also you can use the USB-A that are connected to the monitor?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the questions. Yes. USB-C does charge MacBook and sends video over same cable. USB-A can be used and "seen" by the MacBook due to the built in KVM. Cheers.

@valentingalazsalgado1914

Жыл бұрын

thank you for the answer! Im already waiting for my 28u to arrive

What is the wattage on the charging? Is it 65W charging on the macbook with the usb c?

@krazywabbit

10 ай бұрын

15W

Would this work with a dual monitor setup?

@krazywabbit

Ай бұрын

Don’t quote me on this, I don’t think it will on the version MacBook I have. Check the Apple website to confirm your model does.

Will you get 4k 144hz if use the type c to type c connection from macbook m1?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

In my experience, I have.

@davidhurt8212

7 ай бұрын

what cables exactly? this has been a nightmare to research. Do i just need a thunderbolt 3 adapter with 2 usb-c ports (i use a wired usb-c mouse) and a usb-c 3.0 cable from the adapter to the monitor?@@krazywabbit

can the monitor power the Mac while recieving vídeo and audio from It?

@krazywabbit

11 ай бұрын

Yes

@murilopajolla

11 ай бұрын

@@krazywabbit what cable do i need for that? thanks for the help.

So you can close pur MacBook an its still working because its charging?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

Yes. That has been my experience.

@davidoff8528

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and what cable do you use for connecting your MacBook? Just the regular one for charging or do you have to Use a different one

@krazywabbit

7 ай бұрын

The monitor came with a usb c to c cable. I’ve not used a usb c charging cable. Also, since this video, I’ve moved the laptop to a new location as it’s become part of my work from home set up for my job. The gigabyte now flies solo. Sorry for the delay.

Tell me pls , is fonts good display from macbook?

@krazywabbit

Жыл бұрын

The fonts display just fine for me from the MacBook and Mac mini.

Is it good for 4k video editing?

@krazywabbit

9 ай бұрын

I only use my iPhone to record my videos. Most are in 4k. No issues on my end.

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