Review: Alogic's Edge 5K Display Offers an Ultrawide Big-Screen Experience

Accessory institution Alogic has been releasing an expanding fig of displays, and the latest exemplary arrives arsenic a 40-inch 5K2K ultrawide model that joins existing 34-inch and 40-inch 4K models successful the Edge family. I've been investigating retired the caller 40-inch 5K2K exemplary for the past fewer months, and I've recovered it to beryllium a coagulated show offering large surface existent property for productivity users.


As a 40-inch ultrawide display, the Edge 5K is big, and it arrives successful a reasonably ample box, though it is packaged efficiently with styrofoam padding, basal parts, and different accessories nestled astir the monolithic display. The Edge 5K is disposable successful either metallic oregon abstraction gray, and setup is simple, with a ample metallic ft that's attractively bladed paired with a coagulated limb that features a cablegram passthrough for organization. The 2 basal pieces connect easy to each different with a azygous screw that tin beryllium tightened by manus oregon with a screwdriver, and the full basal snaps easy into the backmost of the display.

Alternatively, you tin usage immoderate sturdy 100×100mm VESA equine if you similar a antithetic method of supporting the display. A abstracted 180-watt powerfulness ceramic powers the show and attached accessories, and it tin propulsion up to 90 watts upstream to a connected computer.

I volition accidental that determination is simply a spot of wobble successful the display, owed partially to the sheer size of the show sheet and besides the scope of adjustments supported by the stand, which includes height, tilt, swivel, and rotation. It remains unchangeable capable connected my table amid vibrations from typing and different movement, but it tin decidedly wobble if you bump it oregon person it connected aboveground that is thing little than stone solid. Alogic tells maine the spot of wobble is simply a tradeoff it elected to marque successful bid to maximize adjustability. It's surely not a deal-breaker for me, but thing to beryllium alert of.


This show looks sleek, with bladed achromatic bezels astir the apical and sides and past a thicker metallic aluminum chin with immoderate subtle Alogic branding and a powerfulness presumption airy (that does unluckily pulse alternatively brightly portion the show is sleeping, truthful beryllium alert if you're utilizing it successful a bedroom). The sheet lodging itself has a precise bladed illustration connected the precocious two-thirds, and past a thicker information bulging retired of the backmost connected the little 3rd wherever the basal attachment, ports, and electronics are housed.

The precocious 2 thirds is really solid connected the rear, which brings a spot of people if you presumption your show specified that the rear of it is visible. The plan besides takes vantage of the show backlight to supply a lighted Alogic logo connected the rear of the display, which could beryllium a affirmative oregon a antagonistic depending connected your preference. Alogic tells maine it enactment other absorption connected the plan of the display's backside, based connected feedback from users who similar to usage these monitors successful offices wherever the rear is often disposable to others sitting crossed a desk, for example.


I was impressed with the show prime retired of the box. I truly didn't request to marque immoderate adjustments successful either macOS oregon the done on-screen menus of the display, though I did yet play astir with them to recognize the scope of adjustments that are available. As a 40-inch 5K2K display, it measures successful astatine 5,120 by 2,160 pixels astatine 138 pixels per inch. That doesn't lucifer existent Retina pixel density of an iMac oregon a smaller 4K oregon 5K display, but I was pleasantly amazed astatine however crisp everything looked, adjacent coming from my accustomed setup of arsenic brace of high-density LG UltraFine 5K displays.

The Edge 5K offers 100% sum of the sRGB spectrum, 99% of DCI-P3, and 94% of Adobe RGB. It besides supports refresh rates up to 100Hz, and portion that's not arsenic precocious arsenic immoderate gaming-specific displays connected the market, the bandwidth demands of the display's precocious solution limits the quality to propulsion a super-high refresh rate. Still, 100Hz is large for a productivity-focused setup and volition adjacent enactment good for galore games.

This is simply a matte display, truthful decidedly beryllium alert of that if it's a interest for you. I'm doing productivity enactment adjacent a model and tin get a spot of glare astatine definite times of day, truthful I similar matte displays and this 1 looks large to my eye. It's an IPS sheet with up to 400 nits of emblematic brightness, which is good for my workspace though determination are brighter displays connected the market.

While you tin surely tally the show astatine afloat 5,120 × 2,160 resolution, I recovered that it made on-screen contented excessively tiny fixed the viewing region I americium typically at. On the different end, moving astatine 2,560 × 1,080 arsenic a existent Retina show made contented excessively large, truthful I recovered the 3,840 × 1,620 scaled enactment to beryllium the cleanable solution for this show successful my setup. It provides a ample canvas for putting aggregate apps and windows side-by-side, with everything appearing astatine a legible size, and macOS handles scaled resolutions rather good truthful I had nary issues with show quality.

Coming from a brace of 27-inch 5K displays, I did person to fig retired a caller layout for my desktop with the somewhat smaller magnitude of surface existent estate, but having it each connected 1 show made it easier to set my model sizes and tile them connected my desktop.


The Edge 5K features a fig of useful connectivity options connected the rear, with show connectivity options of USB-C (supports some information and powerfulness delivery), DisplayPort 1.4, and HDMI 2.0 (refresh complaint constricted to 30Hz astatine 5K resolution). When connected implicit USB-C, the show besides acts arsenic a hub with 2 further downstream USB-C ports moving astatine USB 2.0 speeds, a Gigabit Ethernet port, and a 3.5mm audio jack for connecting headphones oregon externally-powered speakers (does not enactment microphone input).

Two 3-watt speakers are built into the display, but arsenic is emblematic successful astir displays, they don't dependable great. The speakers besides don't integrate with Mac keyboard shortcut keys for measurement (the aforesaid is existent for show brightness), but Alogic tells maine it's readying a firmware update for astir the mediate of the twelvemonth to adhd this functionality.


The rear of the Edge 5K features a joystick fastener to entree and navigate done the on-screen menus. It provides speedy entree to volume, brightness, show presets, and cycling done connected video sources, and past you tin dive deeper into an array of adjustments for the backlight, contrast, bluish airy shift, Adaptive Sync, sharpness, Picture by Picture and Picture successful Picture mode settings, colour temperature, HDR, and more.

The Alogic Edge 5K is usually priced astatine $1,699.99, but Alogic is presently offering a 10% discount that brings it down to $1,529.99. Silver and Space Gray colour options are available, and it comes with a coagulated two-year warranty.

Comparison to Apple's Studio Display

At this terms point, it is earthy to comparison the Edge 5K to Apple's just-upgraded Studio Display, but these displays service precise antithetic purposes. The ‌Studio Display‌ measures conscionable 27 inches with a 16:9 facet ratio, and for astir users it volition tally champion successful existent Retina mode, yielding a desktop size of 2,560 × 1,440 from the display's 5,120 × 2,880 pixels.

While the Edge 5K besides offers 5,120 pixels successful the horizontal dimension, the 21:9 ultrawide facet ratio means it offers less pixels successful the vertical magnitude than the ‌Studio Display‌. But the overmuch larger 40-inch size means you tin efficaciously person much surface existent property than connected the ‌Studio Display‌ if you tally it a scaled solution successful betwixt afloat and Retina sizes.

The ‌Studio Display‌ does of people besides connection a existent Apple plan aesthetic and physique quality, and offers choky integration with macOS that the Edge 5K can't presently match. The Edge 5K besides lacks a built-in webcam and microphone, and downstream USB-C connectivity options are much constricted astatine conscionable USB 2.0 speeds.

On the affirmative side, the Edge 5K offers much connectivity options, truthful if you person a PC oregon different video source, you tin usage HDMI oregon DisplayPort to link it straight to the Edge 5K without the request for adapters, and you tin easy power betwixt inputs oregon adjacent instrumentality vantage of dual sources simultaneously with Picture successful Picture oregon Picture by Picture.

Both of these displays are toward the pricier extremity of things among much mainstream displays, but they're antithetic capable that you should beryllium capable measurement your needs (physical show size, connectivity, etc.) to fig retired what's astir important to you and which show volition conscionable those needs the best.

Note: Alogic provided MacRumors with the Edge 5K show for the purposes of this review. No different compensation was received. MacRumors is an affiliate spouse with Alogic. When you click a nexus and marque a purchase, we whitethorn person a tiny payment, which helps america support the tract running.
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