Kuycon P20 review: a 28-inch 3:2 monitor that finally replaces my dual-screen setup
The Kuycon P20 – 28" 4500x3000px 3:2 monitor
A long-time Mac user who always wanted an Apple Studio Display but preferred taller screens reviews the Kuycon P20, a 28.2-inch IPS monitor with a 3:2 aspect ratio and 4500x3000 resolution. After a rocky start (a flickering first unit and a missing stand), the author finds the P20's extra vertical space ideal for coding, writing, and CAD, and praises its compatibility with Macs, Windows, Linux, and iPad. However, color accuracy requires fiddling, and there are no built-in speakers.
The P20 has a 28.2-inch IPS panel running at 4500x3000 and 60Hz, with a 3:2 aspect ratio, giving it about 22% more pixels than my 5120x2160 LG ultra-wide, arranged in a much taller, narrower workspace–and a bit sharper, too.
- gyomu
> we still haven’t been able to get the colours quite right, in any setup.
Yeah, instant non starter for a $1k display. And the HDR section makes it sound like HDR support is purely there to tick a checkbox and not actually usable on the device. Not even counting the fact that the author had to swap the display as soon as they received it to get a non-defective one.
There’s a reason Apple displays are still the gold standard. Everyone else just skips the quality control part. If you trawl the high DPI display subreddits, you’ll find plenty of stories of people exchanging displays many times (3, 4, 5 or more) until they get a unit with an “acceptable” amount of dead pixels/color shift.
For tech that’s in the $1k-$2k range (or above), it’s just unacceptable.
- Gualdrapo
My graphic designing ass feels like this is about the perfect ratio for a screen. And this thing seems quite sturdy.
But even if I had the budget to afford it most probably I'd pass - having to handle settings with a remote control instead of with the OS via a ddc interface or something seems quite odd, or maybe it's just me that grew so used to this "old" Apple Thunderbold Display.
Also that it doesn't have internal speakers, mic or webcam - I really like the thunderbolt display "peripherals" and make my desktop way less cluttered that it should be with just any other monitor, so the hypothetical case of having to get also speakers, mic and a webcam sounds like a serious downgrade. Can't care less about the 120Hz thing but maybe it's because I've never used a high-rate display.
I wish they do a "P20 Pro" of sorts that adds this things.
- silverlake
I’ve been on the fence about the P20 for a while. Some people report getting janky units. BenQ has a 3:2 monitor with 3840x2560 resolution, 120Hz refresh.