Dell’s UltraSharp UP3218K display is from the future. Usually, that’s a compliment around these parts, but on this rare occasion, I find myself ill at ease with this fragment from a time that is not yet upon us. With a native resolution of 7,680 x 4,320, this is the first widely available 8K monitor you can buy, and its sheer pixel abundance dwarfs even the 4K and 5K displays that we consider the current state of the art. It’s a monster of awesome performance and visual beauty, but it demands an incredibly powerful graphics card to feed it, an eye-watering price to own it, and the patience of a saint to navigate through its bugs.
It was at CES at the start of this year that I first came across Dell’s $4,999.99 8K monitor (which has since…
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