Skilled’s Score
Execs
- Reasonably priced
- 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports
- Good distinction
- Loads of display screen house
- 100Hz display screen frequency
Cons
- Pale colours
- Low brightness
- No webcam
Our Verdict
The Samsung ViewFinity S65TC offers you a whole lot of display screen, excessive display screen refresh, and Thunderbolt 4 connections at an inexpensive value. However it’s not for individuals who work professionally with photographs or video and who’ve excessive calls for on correct colour replica.
Value When Reviewed
$449.99
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If in case you have a Mac with a base M-series chip (M1, M2, M3, and so forth.), you must take care of some limitations with how many displays you can connect. One solution to get round that’s to make use of a bigger, widescreen show the place you may get extra desktop house. For those who don’t want excessive resolutions, you will discover widescreen shows that provide a whole lot of house.
Take the Samsung VIewFinity S65TC. It’s a 34-inch show but it surely’s extra broad than tall, so it’s like engaged on two shows aspect by aspect. The S65TC additionally presents a excessive refresh price, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and easy-to-use controls. It’s a pleasant show at an inexpensive value.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: Design, setup, and controls
Once I unpack the Samsung ViewFinity S65TC, it’s with growing shock. This display screen is each broad (it has a 21:9 side ratio; for comparability, the Apple Studio Display has a 16:9 ratio) and curved. And regardless of its dimension, it doesn’t weigh very a lot, just below 9 kilograms (18 kilos). I just like the white end or the show’s casing, nevertheless, it has a really plasticky really feel (therefore the low weight).
The meeting is straightforward. The steel stand consists of two elements, when it’s prepared you “click on” the stand onto the display screen and plug it in. It’s so simple as that. You’ll be able to regulate the display screen vertically and laterally, and tilt it up or down. It can’t be rotated to portrait mode.
Situated within the heart backside of the display screen is a crosshair-like management for adjusting the display screen’s settings. I all the time have bother urgent the correct button, but it surely’s straightforward to study and use.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: Thunderbolt 4 and USB
The ViewFinity S65TC helps Thunderbolt 4 and you should utilize it to hook up with a Mac. One of many Thunderbolt 4 ports delivers 90 watts of energy (it’s labeled with a laptop computer and Thunderbolt icons), so that you’ll need to use that port to hook up with a MacBook so it may possibly cost the laptop computer whereas linked. For those who desire, you possibly can join it through the HDMI 2.0 port.
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The second Thunderbolt port (labeled with only a Thunderbolt icon) presents 15 watts of energy. The show additionally has 2 USB-A ports (and a USB service port for servicing the show), a DisplayPort (model 1.2), an ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack. USB-A looks like a step again into the previous, however there are actually many USB-A gadgets on the market. However extra Thunderbolt ports would have been good.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: An additional-wide display screen
The curved display screen, with the 21:9 side ratio, undeniably is what makes this show stand out It has WQHD decision, which stands for “broad quad excessive definition,” which is 3440 by 1440 pixels. At 34 inches the S65TC has a whole lot of display screen width and loads of display screen house. You’ll be able to simply have three Safari home windows open.
The curved floor of the display screen takes some time to get used to. Many producers speak loads about how the display screen “envelops” you. It doesn’t, and I’m not satisfied of the benefit. What I do like is the 100Hz refresh price, which the Apple Studio Show surprisingly lacks.
The S65TC’s distinction is kind of good, however the colour replica feels watered down, particularly in case you put it subsequent to an iMac, for instance. Brightness can also be within the decrease spectrum at 350 nits–the Apple Studio Show’s brightness is 600 nits. Even a MacBook Air has extra display screen brightness at 500 nits.
You’ll be able to simply have three Safari home windows open on the identical time.
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Must you purchase the Samsung ViewFinity S65TC?
I think about this curved display screen is partly made with players in thoughts, however in case you’re a Mac person, you’re already painfully conscious that there aren’t many heavy gaming titles to take pleasure in. Plus, it’s a display screen that takes up a whole lot of desktop house and it doesn’t have a webcam. Alternatively, you get loads of desktop house. And it appears undeniably spectacular.
The weaknesses are in colour replica and brightness, regardless of HDR it lacks punch. However that doesn’t essentially matter. For those who’re an Excel rider who simply wants a whole lot of house for all of your home windows or only a common person who needs extra display screen house, then it’s completely nice. For those who work professionally with video or picture, look elsewhere.
This text initially appeared on Macworld Sweden and was translated by Roman Loyola.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macworld Sweden and was translated and localized from Swedish.