Eric Slivka
I looked at several 4K displays of Alogic over the past couple of years, but the company raised things to the next level with a new 27-inch Touch Clarity 5k. Announced almost a year ago, The Clarity 5k Touch has recently started delivery to ensure not only high -quality experience showing with sufficient density of pixels 218 pixels per inch to fully support the retina, but also the functionality of the sensory screen through the stylus and fingers.
I tested Clarity 5k Touch for several weeks, and I found the impression that the quality of the shows and the general release, albeit on a conventional category, did not give potential, it does not give potential potential customers when he gives potential customers. Parameters. This gives a clear text and graphics without potential fines for performance and visual artifacts that may arise as a result of scaling, not perfect, with lower pixel densities.
The quality of display on Clarity 5k Touch was excellent in my testing, in fact, indistinguishable from my MacBook Pro (except for support for promotion) or my usual external LG Ultrafine 5K displays operating in Retina mode. The text and images appear on the display, with individual pixels that are not visible until I get close to the display, as you expect pixels on this density. The display offers a ratio of contrast 1000: 1 and up to 400 threads of typical brightness, which is slightly lower than Apple laptops and a studio display that can offer 500-600 threads of typical SDR brightness, but Clarity 5k Touch was quite bright in my workspace. In my setting. Clarity 5k Touch supports 100% SRGB gamut and 99% GACT Adobe RGB and DCI-P3, and it has HDR400 support.
Clarity 5k Touch is a glossy display, and although ALOGIC says that it has anti-reflexive finishes, Glossy is very obvious if you use it in an environment where there is a significant amount of glare, such as direct lighting or nearby windows. Depending on the relative places and angles of these lighting sources and your sitting position, glare can sometimes interfere with visibility, so this is what you think where you plan to use the display.
The construction of the display seems solid, with a stand made mainly from silver aluminum for good rise and stability. The hole in the neck of the stand helps the routing of cables to minimize their visibility. In addition to the adjustable height on the range of 145 mm, the Clarity 5k Touch also supports the slope (5º forward up to 20º back), turning (up to 25º left or right) and rotation adjustment for maximum flexibility. You can turn the display up to 90 degrees all the way, if you prefer to use the display in orientation on the portrait, while the slope and turn will help you get the display in the correct position, which is especially useful to try to soften the glare. Support for a mount of 100 × 100 things is also turned on if you prefer another installation solution. Despite this, this is a simple and pure design, only without high -quality aluminum, which you will find on the apple display. Lievli, in fact, completely under the glass of the display, except for a very narrow plastic strip around the perimeter, which helps to hide them a little, especially if the use of a dark desktop and/or dark mode.
One area in which Trans 5k Tops Tops on the Apple Studio display is in the connection department, while the ALOGIC display offers not only the USB-C connection option, but also a pair of HDMI 2.0 ports and the DISPLAYPORT 1.4 port, which allows you to connect several devices and easily switch the display between them or even simultaneously demonstrate several sources from Image modes in the sequic. The USB-C and DisplayPort ports support resolution up to 5K at 60 Hz, while HDMI ports support resolution up to 5K at 30 Hz, therefore, although you are not going to get the most acute game response from this display, I found that it is completely acceptable for less demanding daily work. Supporting and orientation settings controlled during the addition of the addition “Settings” on your Mac, various inputs and other display settings are processed through the display menu system on the screen, which is slightly lacking in the view, as well as at the level of the course for these types of control elements. The buttons, hidden along the lower right edge of the display, allow you to pass through various settings, and you need to use these buttons to adjust the volume of the speaker and brightness of the display, since the native control of the MAC keyboard is not supported for them. Charging 7.5 W) to serve as a center for connecting wired accessories, if there is a USB-C or USB-B connection with a computer to facilitate data transmission. There is also a 3.5-mm audio jack for connecting headphones or speaker, although it is only for the output, so the microphone entrance is not supported.
When connecting to the USB-C Clarity 5k Touch, it can support up to 65 watts of charging on a connected computer, but it drops up to 45 watts when the display is in HDR mode. This is enough to preserve something like MacBook Air, or, possibly, even a 14-inch Zwnj; MacBook Pro & Zwnj;, charged, but it will not be able to lag if you begin to enter into demanding work processes on more powerful machines, especially on 16-inch & zwnj; MacBook Pro & Zwnj; And of course, you cannot quickly charge the exhausted and Zwnj; MacBook Pro & Zwnj; Battery through the display. Nevertheless, he was able to keep up with my 16-inch & zwnj; MacBook Pro & Zwnj; Just fine in everyday work. I have already examined most of this function in my reviews about the earlier 4K sensor display of Alogic, and the idea remains almost the same.
Install the MAC driver from the ALOGIC product page (Windows machines must maintain the functionality of the box) and provide appropriate permits, and you can interact with MacOS using up to 5-point MultyTouch or any active stylus that supports Microsoft Pen Prootocol (MPP) 2.0, for example, Alogic Clarity Active Stylus Premander Premander Premander. Mac App, which you will see when you see, but it offers many settings settings to help optimize the experience of the touch screen, including setting functions for a wide range of TAP, pressing, strokes and dragging with a different number of fingers. For example, you can configure pressing with one finger as a traditional mouse click and pressing with two fingers as a click with a right mouse button, failures in various places can do things such as showing or hid the dock, cut off the mission or minimize windows. Gest of rotation and pricking with two fingers can also be configured for manipulating content on the screen, and you can even configure various actions for gestures depending on which application you are in.
As in my previous reviews of this family of displays, I still believe that Touch functionality is more properly used as a secondary input method, since it is not very effective (not to mention the tedious hand) to use sensory input as a full -time control, and this is a little clumsy to constantly move from mice to keyboard. So, if you want to turn your Mac, into a full experience of touch, you will probably be disappointed. I hold the mail, Slack, and several other applications constantly open on the display, towards my main display, and it is pleasant to be able to stretch myself and quickly press or miss to look at emails or scroll through my channels, without moving my mouse mouse back and forth along several displays. However, the situation of each is different, so think about how you can use the display with the possibility of communication both in your work process and in your physical tuning.
The glossy display over time collects fingerprints when you touch it, but, as a rule, it does not matter much, since you keep the light of bright lighting from the screen. Otherwise, random wiping with microfiber fabric cleans it. Webcam, but ALOGIC sells a lighting panel with Autofocus webcam with a 12-megapixel 4K, which is connected using USB-C and is equipped with sensory control and magnetic distance control to help light your workspace. It is a little cheaper than the initial price of the Apple studio display, although ALOGIC really gives you a much more adjustable rack without additional charging. If you think that the functionality of the touch screen can be useful, then Clarity 5k Touch is your only option on the market. If not, you can consider the question of the Apple Studio & Zwnj display; Or potentially one of the few other 27-inch 5-kilometer displays, which are currently available at sometimes significantly lower prices. Another compensation was not received. Macrumors is an affiliation partner Alogic. When you click on the link and make a purchase, we can get a small payment that helps us maintain the work of the site.
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