This is an amazing monitor for my Mac mini m1 (34 inch IPS AOC U34G3X).
First it comes with both a HDMI and DP cable. I used the HDMI cable to hook to my m1 mini and it goes up to 100hz refresh rate which is great, I tried 3 others cables to see if it was possible to get to any higher and none of them worked higher than 100hz. If you are going to use this with HDMI just stick with the included cable or one you already have.
I also bought a USB-C to DisplayPort cable that gets me to 144hz just fine. Not ideal having to take one thunderbolt port away doing this, but the included usb-c connectors on the monitor partially make up for this.
I love the fact that it has 4 USB ports, 2 are labeled as quick charge. I found that I could plug in two unpowered USB hubs into the quick charge ports and they work fine for low power devices like my keyboard, mouse, webcam, security keys etc.. haven’t tried something like a hard drive plugged into them.
The two additional ports seem to be faster than the quick charge ones, I ended up plugging in my 1TB SSD drive that goes to around 9XX MB/s read and write when connected via USB-C to my thunderbolt. When plugged in the monitor it gets around 38X MB/s read and write which is respectable though not as fast as the thunderbolt. When I tried the quick charge ports for the SSD it’s so slow not to be useable so I’ll stick to using those for devices that don’t require speed. My other ports on my computer are all occupied and at best I could plug it into a USB hub plugged into a USB-A port but that makes the drive about 250 MB/s write and 200 read, so plugging it in the monitor was the best choice. Even removing the hub as a test and plugging the drive directly to a Mac USB-A gets the same speed, so oddly enough through my monitor makes is run faster compared to the Mac USB-A.
The stand is amazing the amount of degrees of freedom it allows to move the monitor and switched to using it despite having an arm that works with this monitor.
The picture quality is amazing though colors in certain situations with HDR mode on look off, but in general I appreciate how this mode colors everything compared to normal. I use an app called BetterDisplay to tweak the monitor settings further than MacOS X allows including custom HIDPI modes that scale everything to an ideal size that isn’t too small or too big.
It also comes with monitor quality speakers which as usual are of low quality, but at least are loud enough to not worry about being too quiet.
| Standing screen display size | 34 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 3440x1440 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3440 x 1440 Pixels |
