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Perfect for my MBP15"
I was originally going to buy the LG 27UD88 because of the single cable solution for my macbook pro. I dislike living the dongle life, so I wanted some way to hook up all my home office peripherals AND charge with one cable. Reading more about it online however turned me off from that as an option because I have the 15", which requires 85W of charging, which the 27UD88 does not provide (the ud88 also drops its usb transfer speeds down to usb2 speeds when hooked up to the usbc port).
I then stumbled upon ultrawides, and the 34uc98 and 38uc99 came up a lot. The uc99 would've been perfect, if not for its extremely high price point. The uc98, doesn't have a single cable option to provide port expansion and charging through thunderbolt.
I ended up buying this unit (34UC80), since it's basically a 34uc98 without the thunderbolt (which I don't need) at half the price. I ended up just buying an elgato thunderbolt 3 dock to go with this (which provides 85w power and serves as a single cable solution solving my docking goals). Put together, they're cheaper than the uc98, and offered a better solution to my one-cable docking dilemma.
January 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase