lol i caved and bought an lg c2 42 last night. been gaming a bit more again now that the new warzone is out so I thought I'd treat myself.
why sniping no get quantum oled alienware ?
it was also a good choice but two things. I'm not really used to playing on ultrawide, and it's too small for me nowadays. I feel like monitor size creep is a thing (I just made up that name). 5 years ago, it was pretty common to game on a 24" monitor. 27" was pretty big. Now that people have had a taste of using 27" monitors, the most common sizes are 27" and 32". If you downsize when getting a new screen, it feels like a downgrade. Since I've been using 27" for like 10 years now, and use a TV for my main productivity screen, it'd feel small and like a downgrade if I spent all this money just for a 34 ultrawide. So 42" felt like a good size for me. Maybe something in between 32 and 42 would be nice, but for now 42 will do. Plus the C2 is a great deal these days, $850 and the questionable 4 year burn in warranty.
are you going to disable that factory menu dimming thing which peopel say voids the warranty. Tp4 bought a CX a while back, but gave up/returned because the dimming made regular 'puter tasks untenable. If it was just movies/ games, it worked fine.
Going to try it out first, if it bothers me a lot, yes I'm going to disable it. If I went through warranty claim, I most likely wouldn't be going through LG and it'd be through that extended burn in warranty. I doubt they'll check that I changed anything in the service menu. And I'm quick sure I can just put it back to stock before sending it in, and there likely wouldn't be any trace of me adjusting it in the first place.
As for the work use case, a lot of days of WFH I'm too lazy to even connect my computer to my monitor, and just work off my laptop, so I'm not super concerned about the WFH case. The C2 is an imperfect work monitor anyways. Without auto wake (bar the LGTV companion application) and USB-C charging, it's just not that great of an experience for that use. If I was serious about the whole work thing I'd probably just find a used LG ultrafine 5k, which I loved using the last time I used one.
After looking at the current state of affairs for large monitors, it seems that the solutions are all imperfect. The Asus PG42UQ came quite close with the heatsink and monitor functionality on top of just being a C2 panel, but lack of USB-C and still having auto dimming was still a problem. I believe the C2 is the best choice if you fear auto dimming since the service remote doesn't exist for the monitor versions of this panel (same for 48" oled monitors like the ultragear and FO48U, PG48UQ). The oled drawbacks still seem worth it to me over other choices and the price was right for the C2 so that's what I ended up with.
