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The Huawei Mateview is exceptional. I was bothered by the price but eventually got one on sale. It’s so good I’m buying another at full price. (Unless it comes on sale again!)


Can you comment a bit more on it? I heard some criticism about bleeding.

It's reasonably easy to buy it in EU, and price is not too far from usual suspects like Dell UltraSharp or cheap Eizo/Nec models.


I have one as well and definitely can recommend it. The only thing is that if you are running macOS you really need to have SwitchResX for it to not look terrible.

I have it next to my studio display and it honestly does not even compare in terms of clarity. I’m sure it’ll run better on windows.


> I have it next to my studio display and it honestly does not even compare in terms of clarity.

Could you clarify a bit by what you mean? The studio display has a higher resolution if I'm not mistaken (4500*3000), do you mean the display is more vivid or has a better color space (DCI P3 etc) coverage? Thanks!


> Could you clarify a bit by what you mean?

I’m referring to the scaling of the display. The reason that I say that macOS looks better is because it uses integer scaling on the studio display. While even after setting a custom resolution, (the defaults macOS chose for the Mateview were either really small or really large for my taste) the Mateview still has a bit of a blur to it in small fonts it is most noticeable. Whereas the studio display shows well because it was made with integer scaling in mind


I was planning to use this on Linux (X11). Perhaps not a good idea given that I'd need scaling.


Not sure what you mean by bleeding - can you be more specific?

I find it an absolute joy to use. When I am at my desk I spend a lot of time in front of the screen and compared to the Samsung 4k I was using previously I find far less eye strain, much crisper image, and just generally more pleasant. I feel the investment was very worthwhile.

It’s also very beautifully designed which was definitely a consideration for me, as my office has a very cheaper defined aesthetic.

Happy to answer specific questions but understand that I’m not a monitor expert :)


Apologies for the ambiguity. I meant backlight bleeding, i.e. some bright spots on the edge of the screen. It's a very common issue.


I’ve not noticed this. I’ll have a closer look though and report back.


Having looked out for this since you mentioned it it is not something I noticed. Meanwhile I’m really annoyed because this was on a “lightning deal” on Amazon recently for £389 and I missed picking another one up by about 40 minutes!


Thanks for reporting back!


It does look really nice, but unfortunately it's 60hz




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