Monitor

Displays judged on text sharpness, real brightness, and the ports and cables you need to actually drive them.

Dell UltraSharp 32-inch monitor seen straight on from the front on a tidy desk, one keyboard and mouse in front of it, a laptop and a small desktop tower cabled to it from either side

One keyboard runs two PCs through the Dell U3225QE hub

The Dell U3225QE KVM switches one keyboard between two PCs and pushes 140W over USB-C. See the exact cabling and why a 90W monitor falls short.

Desktop monitor with its screen split in half, sharp app windows on the left and blurred ghosted copies of the same windows on the right

Fractional scaling gets sharp in Plasma 6.7 on Wayland

Wayland fractional scaling blur is fixed in Plasma 6.7 for native apps. Learn which path your app is on and how to keep XWayland text readable.

Asus ProArt PA32QCV monitor on a wooden desk showing a split code editor and terminal, with keyboard, mouse and laptop

Read code at 216 pixels per inch on the ProArt PA32QCV

The ProArt PA32QCV puts 216 PPI on a 32-inch 6K panel. See the integer-scaling maths for a code desk and why a 27-inch 5K reaches the same density.

Modos Flow e-paper monitor upright on a wooden desk showing two columns of text, with a USB-C cable and hands on a keyboard

60Hz e-paper lands on the 13.3-inch Modos Flow monitor

Modos Flow is a 60Hz e-paper monitor at 300 PPI. See how its FPGA controller beats Dasung, Boox and Bigme, and what the full 60Hz costs in power.

An OLED TV showing a small intense white square beside a desk monitor showing a dimmer full white page

OLED monitors reach 1,500 nits while TVs claim 4,500

OLED monitors peak at 1,500 nits in 2026 while TV panels claim 4,500. See where that gap comes from and what a desk buyer ends up with.

A 27-inch OLED monitor on a designer's desk showing crisp text, with a magnified red-green-blue sub-pixel grid in the corner

220 PPI puts LG's 5K Tandem WOLED into retina territory

LG's 27-inch 5K Tandem WOLED hits 220 PPI by dropping the white sub-pixel, trading peak brightness from 335 nits down to 250 nits at 100% APL.