Knowledgeable’s Score
Execs
- Inexpensive
- 2 Thunderbolt 4 ports
- Good distinction
- Loads of display screen area
- 100Hz display screen frequency
Cons
- Pale colours
- Low brightness
- No webcam
Our Verdict
The Samsung ViewFinity S65TC offers you a variety of display screen, excessive display screen refresh, and Thunderbolt 4 connections at an inexpensive worth. Nevertheless it’s not for individuals who work professionally with photographs or video and who’ve excessive calls for on correct shade replica.
Worth When Reviewed
$449.99
Greatest Costs At this time: Samsung ViewFinity S65TC
$450
$549.99
$549.99
$741.88
If in case you have a Mac with a base M-series chip (M1, M2, M3, and so on.), it’s important to take care of some limitations with what number of shows you may join. One option to get round that’s to make use of a bigger, widescreen show the place you will get extra desktop area. When you don’t want excessive resolutions, you could find widescreen shows that provide a variety of area.
Take the Samsung VIewFinity S65TC. It’s a 34-inch show nevertheless it’s extra vast than tall, so it’s like engaged on two shows facet by facet. The S65TC additionally presents a excessive refresh fee, Thunderbolt 4 ports, and easy-to-use controls. It’s a pleasant show at an inexpensive worth.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: Design, setup, and controls
Once I unpack the Samsung ViewFinity S65TC, it’s with rising shock. This display screen is each vast (it has a 21:9 side ratio; for comparability, the Apple Studio Show has a 16:9 ratio) and curved. And regardless of its measurement, it doesn’t weigh very a lot, slightly below 9 kilograms (18 kilos). I just like the white end or the show’s casing, nonetheless, it has a really plasticky really feel (therefore the low weight).
The meeting is straightforward. The steel stand consists of two elements, when it’s prepared you “click” the stand onto the display screen and plug it in. It’s so simple as that. You possibly can regulate the display screen vertically and laterally, and tilt it up or down. It can’t be rotated to portrait mode.
Situated within the middle backside of the display screen is a crosshair-like management for adjusting the display screen’s settings. I all the time have bother urgent the correct button, nevertheless it’s simple to be taught and use.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: Thunderbolt 4 and USB
The ViewFinity S65TC helps Thunderbolt 4 and you should use it to connect with a Mac. One of many Thunderbolt 4 ports delivers 90 watts of energy (it’s labeled with a laptop computer and Thunderbolt icons), so that you’ll wish to use that port to connect with a MacBook so it could cost the laptop computer whereas related. When you want, you may join it by way of the HDMI 2.0 port.
A few of the ports on the Samsung Viewfinity S65TC. Different ports are positioned close to the underside of the show.
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The second Thunderbolt port (labeled with only a Thunderbolt icon) presents 15 watts of energy. The show additionally has 2 USB-A ports (and a USB service port for servicing the show), a DisplayPort (model 1.2), an ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm audio jack. USB-A looks like a step again into the previous, however there are definitely many USB-A units on the market. However extra Thunderbolt ports would have been good.
Samsung VIewFinity S65TC: An additional-wide display screen
The curved display screen, with the 21:9 side ratio, undeniably is what makes this show stand out It has WQHD decision, which stands for “wide quad high definition,” which is 3440 by 1440 pixels. At 34 inches the S65TC has a variety of display screen width and loads of display screen area. You possibly can simply have three Safari home windows open.
The curved floor of the display screen takes some time to get used to. Many producers discuss lots about how the display screen “envelops” you. It doesn’t, and I’m not satisfied of the benefit. What I do like is the 100Hz refresh fee, which the Apple Studio Show surprisingly lacks.
The S65TC’s distinction is sort of good, however the shade replica feels watered down, particularly when you put it subsequent to an iMac, for instance. Brightness can also be within the decrease spectrum at 350 nits–the Apple Studio Show’s brightness is 600 nits. Even a MacBook Air has extra display screen brightness at 500 nits.
You possibly can simply have three Safari home windows open on the identical time.
Petter Ahrnstedt
Do you have to purchase the Samsung ViewFinity S65TC?
I think about this curved display screen is partly made with avid gamers in thoughts, however when you’re a Mac person, you’re already painfully conscious that there aren’t many heavy gaming titles to take pleasure in. Plus, it’s a display screen that takes up a variety of desktop area and it doesn’t have a webcam. Then again, you get loads of desktop area. And it seems undeniably spectacular.
The weaknesses are in shade replica and brightness, regardless of HDR it lacks punch. However that doesn’t essentially matter. When you’re an Excel rider who simply wants a variety of area for all of your home windows or only a common person who needs extra display screen area, then it’s completely advantageous. When you work professionally with video or picture, look elsewhere.
This text initially appeared on Macworld Sweden and was translated by Roman Loyola.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macworld Sweden and was translated and localized from Swedish.