LG 38WN95C-W Monitor 38" 21:9 Curved UltraWide QHD+ (3840 x 1600) Nanio IPS Display, Thunderbolt 3, 1ms Response Time, 144Hz Refresh Rate, NVIDIA G-SYNC, AMD FreeSync -White/Silver

First, I did a lot of research before pulling the trigger on this one. It has USB-C (thunderbolt 3), 4K resolution, a good height adjustable stand and is wide without being unwieldy. I have been using this monitor for a few months now and I really like it. Great color, resolution and simple menu button (joystick). Actually I have never had to use the monitor menu... another bonus, it just works! There were three reasons I wanted an ultra-wide monitor... One is for flight simulators (XPlane 11 and MS Flight Simulator 2020). I have a more immersive experience and can see more of the cockpit without using multiple monitors. Works very well with both these apps (I have a high end PC with GeForce RTX 2080 video card). The second reason is for remoting into work. I used to have to maximize my VPN window to do any work on the remote computer, then minimize it to do anything on my home computer. Now, I can see all at once! Its just like the remote computer is a full 27" wide screen monitor - that only takes up part of my huge 38" LG. Its just great. The third reason is as a monitor for my MacBook Pro. The MacBook is a great laptop, but for coding at home I want a much larger screen. The LG 38WN95C works seamlessly with my MacBook Pro. I use the wireless keyboard and mouse from my old iMac and just shut the MacBook and go to work on the big screen! Note: the trick is to keep the MacBook plugged in while using this setup. That way it does not go to sleep when you close the cover! If you want a nice ultra wide monitor I recommend this one.

I have been searching for a high end ultrawide monitor for my Macbook Pro 15 for a very long time and after buying and returning multiple monitors from different manufacturers, this is the absolute PERFECT monitor for me. I love the 38 inch size and it is a considerable step up from a regular 34 inch ultrawide which I always felt it lacked in vertical space. The screen gets so blindingly bright that I need to turn it down to 25 during normal use but when watching videos, cranking it to HDR is amazing. I am not a huge gamer but the 144hz refresh rate has spoiled me forever and I love it. The overall image quality is excellent. It still doesn't quite match my Macbook retina display or my LG OLED TV in terms of vividness and contrast ratio, but it is really close and honestly, you are not gonna find a better screen among consumer monitors. (Better than even Samsung's quantum dot VA panel). The only major downside is the absurd pricetag but upon receiving mine, I knew it was worth the investment. Combined with Thunderbolt 3, I can easily see myself using this monitor for the next 10 years. I have heard of people complaining about screen peel in on the edges and I understand where they are coming from but if you weren't looking for it you wouldn't even notice. If you're reading this and are looking for a monitor that can do EVERYTHING, buy this monitor now. I promise you will not regret it. Phenomenal product from LG.

I hate to give a 1-star review because this monitor really is good...when it works. The Good: The picture quality is excellent for an IPS display. Don't expect OLED blacks because it's not an OLED display, but it does a great job blocking light and providing a pleasant viewing experience. The 144 Hrz refresh rate makes animations buttery smooth, and the quick response time makes this a competent gaming monitor. The Thunderbolt port works well, and allows me to daisy-chain this display to my Thunderbolt 3 dock so I can run the display at 144 Hrz while only having one Thunderbolt cable connected to my M1 MacBook Pro. Overall this monitor packs a lot of features and value for $1,199 (price at time of purchase). The Not so Good: It does have minor blooming around the edges when viewing a dark scene, but that is expected on any edge-lit display. The HDMI inputs are only 2.0 rather than 2.1. That means you cannot hook up an Xbox Series X or PS 5 and get the full 144 Hrz refresh rate. The PBP (picture-by-picture) only works with either Thunderbolt or DisplayPort as the main source, and HDMI as the second. This means I cannot view my MacBook and gaming PC at the same time. Not a deal breaker, but just a dumb limitation IMO. Text clarity is not great on this display, and that is likely due to it being a 38" monitor with a sub-4K resolution. Not everyone will care much about text clarity, but as a programmer text sharpness and clarity is extremely important. The Bad: If I were writing this review yesterday then I would have given this monitor a four out of five due to the nitpicks above. Honestly, I was already planning on sending this display back because of the text clarity, but there is a much larger issue that needs to be discussed. After about 2 days of use as my work monitor I noticed that faint vertical lines would show on the right side of the screen. Ghost images of my web browser content would appear as well. At first I thought this was an issue with my work M1 MBP as this issue didn't occur with my other M1 MBP or gaming PC. These liens and ghost images aren't permanent, at least not yet, but they do persist between switching inputs, cables, computers and even unplugging the damn thing. It seems that the display technology itself is the issue here. Of course, this could be an one-off issue with my unit, but I have found many people on Reddit and other forums who are complaining about having the same exact issue. This is my second LG monitor and this is the second LG monitor that has had issues. My first one, albeit a much cheaper 34" WQHD monitor, would just turn off from time to time. Now this new LG monitor seems to have defects as well. Unfortunately, I cannot in good faith recommend this display to anyone in the market, and I will be sending this one back.

I got this monitor a few month back and can't be happier. Important disclosure: I don't play games and I know this is supposedly a gaming monitor. I use it exclusively for writing code and all related activities as well as general browsing. The monitor is connected by 15 ft fiber optic cable from RUIPRO to 3090 GPU. (Before someone ask why I need 3090, it's for ML tasks and I actually have several of them). It runs at 144 Hz with native resolution of 3840x1600. The fiber optic cable is expensive but I tried all kinds of copper cables and they just do not work reliably at this distance/resolution. Right next to this monitor I have Acer Predator X38 Pbmiphzx, used for the same purpose. I know that Acer is quite a bit more expensive, but setting aside a fact that it supposedly comes pre-calibrated I like the LG one more, in both in picture quality and the fact that is has much smaller stand and space is at premium on my desk as I have tree 38" monitors on it.

The monitor costs a ton but fulfilled a couple purposes for me. First, i wanted to stop using two 27" monitors side by side. The bezels and size of my old setup meant i felt like i was always searching to find stuff and turning my head a ton. Sounds weird, but turning my head to find something just annoyed me completely. Second, I wanted to be able to play games from my windows machine but do work with a macbook and get that single cable connection with thunderbolt 3. The good parts here are that the monitor solved my two main issues perfectly. Games look great in ultra-wide mode and my 2018 mbp gets full power supplied with a single cable. Oh, and the TB3 connection totally supports 144hz at full resolution. It's ... fantastic. The bad parts here are relatively minor but still annoying. First, when using TB3, my mac defaults to using the monitor speakers. I output those speakers to my desktop speaker set and that's cool. However, i can no longer control volume with my keyboard media controls and that's SUPER annoying. I have to change volume in specific apps (spotify, browser, whatever). My windows box sends audio through hdmi and this setup also lets it share speakers through the monitor, so that is still nice. The second annoying part is simply the amount of USB A ports. There should be at least two more and anybody like me is going to find this super annoying, too. I don't really care about the lack of PIP with TB3 and display port, but I could see how that would annoy people, too. Final gripe is the height adjustment and size of the base. The base is super deep and (even with a deep desk) causes my keyboard to be right at the edge of my desk if i want to use my laptop screen at the same time. Raising the monitor all the way is still too low to not block the bottom edge of the screen. I ended up taking some scrap wood and building a monitor riser to give me some more adjustability in the height of the monitor and that makes it better. Still too deep... I need to cut a notch out of my stand to let my laptop be a little deeper on my desk. [update 10/19/2021] Been using this thing for 6 months or so. Still love it. I started using a free utility called monitor control to control monitor brightness & volume with mac media keys. Big issues are fixed for me. I use EasyRes to set resolution and refresh rate but it doesn't maintain 144 across mac reboots. It always drops to 75hz. Annoying, but... meh. I've noticed that I despise the power button. It's not reliable at all and the menus are slow to display. You end up with a ton of double presses or misplaced selections. Not a deal breaker for me since I don't switch inputs a ton, but you might... I'd recommend it to anybody. I love this size for development and gaming. [update 5/09/2023] 2+ year update. I am still enjoying this monitor immensely. Some MacOS updates solved the problems with resolutions swapping to defaults when I plug in so I no longer use EasyRes. Same deal w/sticking @ 144hz. Now it just works. New Complaints: I've had some number < 10 instances where something goes wonky with the connection. The monitor gets a weird "screen door effect" that requires me to disconnect and run a test pattern to un-stick pixels. The button is still the worst part here. Does anybody think a button shouldn't work if there aren't any computers plugged in? Not me... It doesn't. Weird and annoying. Sometimes the OSD will auto hide even though things are plugged in. Super annoying. New Things: LG has released a new monitor that is 42" ultrawide. I think that might be the true sweet spot in ultrawide size. I'd love just a little more screen real estate. Too bad the resolution & refresh rate suck compared to this one. I've been testing out using multiple outputs from one machine w/PIP for work. It's pretty cool to have mid-panel snap zones. It can be annoying if you have a 3+ panes of code to view and can't expand past half-way... Try it out. I've also had a second machine attached via PIP & used logitech options to share mouse/keyboard. Pretty great, but not perfect. I wish this thing shared my peripherals better.

UPDATE 1/19/2022: I returned the first monitor and have had my replacement for about 11 months now. I'm happy to report that there have been no further issues with dead pixels. After almost a year of use, I think I've gotten used to all the quirks with the monitor. I am still extremely annoyed by the fact that the monitor continues to prompt me over and over about switching to the Thunderbolt when I am using a different input. For whatever reason, this never seems to happen when I am using another device on HDMI--it seems to be isolated to when using DisplayPort only. I check pretty regularly for firmware updates with hopes that LG will release an update to disable those annoying prompts, but I continue to be disappointed. Otherwise, I'm still happy with the monitor. I updated the review to 3 stars accordingly. If LG gives me the ability to disable those prompts, I would give it another star. It would still be a stretch for more than that, however. -- UPDATE 1/27/2021: After using this beast of a monitor for about a month, a row of pixels finally gave out. Just over half-way up the screen, the complete row of pixels died. It looks like a short strip (maybe 3-4mm) of vertical pixels appears to have gone bad as well. Those pixels intersect the row of dead pixels in the left-middle of the screen. While I have some tolerance for flaws, it seems there are a number of other people in these reviews that are having quality control issues with this monitor. Considering the price point is so high, it's disappointing to see such a common theme. Fortunately, Amazon is replacing the item for me; however, with such limited stock levels, it looks like I won't be getting the replacement for at least another 2-3 weeks. -- I really do like the monitor. Some things I really enjoy: - The size is amazing for productivity. I was concerned about going down to a single monitor, but at 3840x1600, that is not an issue AT ALL! - It is THIN! Some people have commented on the build quality, but mine was perfect out of the box. The power brick is a bit massive, but I've managed to tuck it up and away underneath the desk. - The color is AMAZING! The first time I launched some of my regular games, I was blown away by how crisp and colorful everything looked on the screen. I have definitely been missing out. And, on the negative side, there are some really awful features in this monitor. Like, some of them are so bad that whoever allowed them to be included should have had at least a minuscule of forethought that it was a bad idea. Here's my list: - The monitor has multiple video inputs (1x Thunderbolt, 1x DisplayPort, 2x HDMI). If Thunderbolt is connected and you are on a different input, say DisplayPort, the monitor likes to inform you randomly that Thunderbolt is connected with a prompt asking if you want to switch inputs. Then you have to go play with the switch, move it over to NO, and give it a click. A few minutes pass, "HEY, DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE INPUTS TO THUNDERBOLT?" No, LG. I don't. It's really annoying, and there is no option to disable that prompting. Kind of silly that a monitor with multiple inputs keeps trying to strong-arm me into switching over to Thunderbolt. - The brightness is insane, to the point of being too bright. - Picture-by-Picture does not work when you are using a Thunderbolt input. You can only do PBP with HDMI/HDMI and HDMI/DisplayPort. I think you'll grow away from using it since there is so much screen real estate, but... it's annoying if that's something you were planning to use. - Last... this monitor is $1600. The speakers are pretty rough. It needs an optical out in addition to the analog audio output. Overall, no regrets with the purchase. If they could do a firmware update to get rid of that annoying prompt to change input to Thunderbolt, then this would be an easy 5 stars. Til then, I'll continue to complain about it. It was a very clear project management fail, and they should remedy that at some point in the near ish future.

Two year update: I LOVE THIS MONITOR! This has been one the best purchases I have ever made. I work from as a Salesforce admin and spend 10-12hrs a day in front of my monitor. Having a large display has made my workflow so much more comfortable. The clarity and colors of the monitor are top notch. Black is true black not the washed out gray often experienced with non-oled monitors. I also game on this monitor, nothing competitive, just ESO but it looks amazing. I would buy this monitor again, over and over. Great Purchase!

I did not think that I would ever find myself buying a +$1,500 monitor, but this monitor is a site to behold. The picture quality, colors and feature set are all top notch. Having G-Sync in such a monitor makes gaming an amazing, immersive experience. There are some minor issues, like the lack of attention to detail on the corners of the panel, but given all of the strong positives of this monitor, it's something that I could look past. One thing to look out for is that LG does not package these monitors great, with a small strip of styrofoam protecting the front of the monitor. My local UPS driver is not a gentle dude, so I unfortunately received two damaged ones, before finally getting a flawless one on the third try. It should say something that despite having to deal with the exchanges, I still give this monitor 5 stars.

This was my first uw monitor. I've had different monitor setup before... 2 Mon, 3 Mon, vertical Mon, Mon + tv... I was skeptical to see what an uw Mon can that a dual monitor can't... After using it for a while....Besides the obvious watch movies on a wide format. I really like setting windows to 70-30, 25-50-25 with just a snap... I thoroughly enjoy the seemlessness of the space.... Yes correct, there's a premium to this feature... Yes you can live without it.... But so is a second monitor, faster CPU, a new computer....

Hard to say—buying this monitor feels like a gamble. I’ve owned two of this model: the first one has been perfectly fine up to now, but the newer one started flickering right after the warranty expired, with constant screen flashes and ghosting in the background. If I switch to a different monitor, it won’t match the size of my other one, but if I buy the same model again, I can’t be sure I won’t face the same issue. Honestly, it’s just luck of the draw.

I had originally purchased a DELL U38 with 60hz and KVM and Screen options. LG went to sale and is 144hz with GSYNC and AMD Freesync. The screen is sharp and bright, buttons are easy to reach Ive used it with a DELL 27 on top

Liked it at first, after 3 months of use screen has failed completely. Don't buy

The monitor had a broken screen out of the box. Not sure if this was a manufacturing error or shipping or what but I was not impressed.