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I am sure that to get the best out of Lr with high-res screens you need a matched combination of good computing hardware and good graphics hardware. One without the other cannot transfer the necessary data both ways to make use of graphics card acceleration. One person here on FM wrote that his new GTX980 card was inadequate but he was using it in a pretty slow and old PC that had a low-bandwidth connection with the card and a slow CPU.
The hardware you intend to buy is surely good enough.
I use a 24" Dell 4k monitor and I love it. Mostly.
It certainly works better with my new laptop than it did with my old laptop because of the better graphics card, CPU and so on, but it isn't the best example of IPS screen technology. Also, Dell indicate that when screen uniformity control is used together with internal colour depth set to more than 8 bits per colour channel there may be some loss of gamut. It obviously doesn't have quite the capability of the NEC and EIZO high-end monitors.
Personally, I love looking at large photos on a 185ppi screen but small web images appear too small.
A 27" screen sacrifices ppi, as does a lower-res screen. A screen less than 24" loses too much physical real estate and gets down to laptop size.
The catch with any monitor is making sure that you are looking at the pictures at 1:1 image-pixel-for-screen-pixel resolution without unwanted scaling caused by Windows or other software. Web browsers are especially bad.
Although I like the high ppi of the Dell and also its Adobe RGB gamut, I prefer the calibration/profiling interface and other attributes of a high-end NEC or Eizo. So far I have not seen a monitor with the optimum combination of features and so while I'm waiting for it I'll use my Dell and (less often) my NEC PA271W.
Final comment: depending on your age you need to factor in your potential (or actual) use of spectacles because eventually they restrict the range of viewing distances that you tolerate and that in turn affects what size monitor you can cope with and what pixels per inch looks best, and worst. For me, 90ppi is now totally unacceptable and 132ppi is my lowest acceptable level.
- Alan
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