M3800 QHD+ usability?

I understand that a lots of programs still have poor support for the M3800 QHD+ ultra res 3200 x 1800 mode. So, I am wondering if QHD+ on the M3800 really usable? I mostly use Photoshop and Premiere and I think Adobe still has not wrote the code to properly support hi-res displays? Should the 3200 x 1800 be too hard to use, can the QHD+ display set to 1920 x 1080? Thanks.

 

I dont use Photoshop even if I have a pirate-copy of it on my drive, but other softwares that I use, like matlab, codeblockes, ms office, libreoffice, virtualbox, orcad pspice etc, work without any issues.

I use the resolution 3200x1800 with 100 % scale factor, ie. no zooming of UI elements. Sure, things do look tiny but I have a very good eyesight so I have no problem with that. 3200x1800 100% is a real screen estate, multiple windows up at the same time is a joy to use.

Edit: if you do plan to run linux on this one, give ubuntu 14.04 a try. I was not a big fan of the unity interface, in the beginning it looked like a cheap copy of the Mac os x interface, but now with unity version 7 and ubuntu 14.04 it is the best gui I have ever used. In comparisson, the windows UI looks like it's made by kids for kids If all the programes that I use worked on linux then I would not even look at windows ever again. Unity now looks and works very professionel, it scales even better than windows.

Regards, and good luck.

 

Thanks, so, can you run a QHD+ display in 1920 x 1080 mode?

 

You can, but you probably want to run it at 1600 x 900 instead (so that each "pixel" is displayed by 4 individual pixels, keeping things as sharp as possible).

Another option would be to work on an external FHD monitor.

 

Lightroom 5 is great at 3200x1800. Lightroom 4 is not so great.

 

would you guys recommend the m3800. Does it get hot on the bottom? What is the max ram? I do a lot of virtual machine work and I think I would love this resolution.. Thanks