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Good Monitor - Just OK Software
The monitor is good - maybe leaning toward excellent - but the software they advertise to split the screens is not nearly as impressive as advertised.
I am driving the monitor with a MacBook Pro (USB-C --> monitor is great) and using the software to divide the monitor down the center. Here's the issues with the LG software:
#1) It doesn't split the monitor as if you had a dual monitor display. Let me explain, if you had two monitors you can full-screen apps and three-finger swipe to other full-screened apps. Since LG software creates two "sections" rather than two "monitors", you can't full-screen apps in split mode... if you do full-screen it spans the entire monitor.
#2) Apps don't stay in the same virtual monitor when using split screen. It's super annoying when side-by-side apps (e.g. composing an email on one and looking at notes on the other) that apps randomly switch which side they are on when moving between apps. I spend half my day putting apps back where I want them.
Besides that, really nice monitor.
February 2020 · Electronics · verified purchase