Pro Display XDR worth it for brightness?
I’ve been a long time owner of the LG ultra fine 5K. I’ve read a lot of poor reviews over the years, perhaps I’ve been lucky, but I’ve never had an issue. Always loved it.
I recently moved and my new home office is surrounded by windows, it’s incredibly bright all day long (which I love). The only downside to this is that my monitor’s brightness is now insufficient. I find myself squinting and leaning in through the brightest part of the day to read things properly.
The ultra fine has a reported brightness of 500 nits. After seeing that the Pro Display XDR has 1600 nits of brightness I’m extremely tempted to get one.
Would love to hear some feedback/thoughts from those who own a Pro Display XDR, or those with more knowledge of monitor brightness than myself.
Any advice?
The Pro display XDR is the same 500 nits in SDR as your current display. The 1600 nits is only for HDR in sections of the display, and 1000 nits full display sustained. There are some apps that let you run at 1000 nits all the time, but there are worries about pushing the display to its limit all the time as the display was not designed for that.
With apps like lunar you can enable XDR brightness all the time - of course that doesn’t solve the issue of reliability because it’s definitely used outside of its design
Maybe get a blind for your windows lmao
I don’t have any 100% advice, as I don’t have either of those, but you want more brightness, try downloading the https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay It sometimes allows you to run HDR brightness levels, on a SDR content(depending on the monitor), so this might help. It got my monitor about 20-30% visibly brighter, and the built in MacBook XDR display, a lot brighter.
I’m going to give this a shot, hugely appreciate the suggestion.
a studio display with the nano texture and some blinds would be a better solution imho.