That monitor looks nice and they used premium materials for the base. However, that pricing looks steep. 34" LG 34UM94-P Ultrawide 3440x1440 IPS LED Monitor is
$751 right now. Seems like manufacturers are charging an arm and a leg for FreeSync/GSync. At this pace getting a high quality 32-37" 4K IPS Adaptive Sync monitor for $999 sounds like wishful thinking.
That is why I am disappointed to see these prices. LG has had some decent 21:9 monitors available for quite some time. The only feature keeping me from trying one of those out (even at 60hz) is Freesync/Gsync integration. If I'm throwing down $1000+ for a gaming monitor, it better be 120hz+.
The combination of high pricing for 4K monitors, these large premiums for FreeSync/GSync monitors and lack of 30-144Hz FreeSync monitors is really slowing down the pace of adoption imo. I think we really need for Intel to side with FreeSync for adoption to skyrocket. At the current pace it seems the trickling down is painfully slow. I don't know there was so much hype behind 4K because neither GSync nor FreeSync monitor options are targetting this resolution at all. It's as if the monitor manufacturers aren't ready to embrace 4K and as a result, the volume of 4K monitors is low, keeping manufacturing costs high.
Its hard to pick out a monitor right now. There used to be clear options for upgrading and the only big differentiator was build quality. The list of features that have been piled on top of a monitor purchase now needs a matrix to figure out. I thought the Swift would be the last monitor I would purchase for a few years until they showed off the 34" monitors. I've been on 1440p for years, so I'm ready for something bigger. Sadly, the prices have gotten sky high.
One of the reasons I skipped 1600P monitors as because I always felt the PC monitor manufacturers were just artificially keeping prices high. It made no sense to me given all the feature, build quality and screen sizes of LED/Plasma TVs. And here are we seeing a repeat of this with 4K on the PC. When
40" 4K TVs are already sub-$1000, we are getting charged $1000 for 32" 4K monitors without FreeSync/GSync. It's going to get absurd at this pace as TV manufacturers will scale down higher end 4K TVs to lower price levels over the next 3-4 years and we might end up with a situation where a 32" 4K PC monitor costs as much as a 50-60" 4K TV. That's pretty much what happened with 1600P vs. 50-65 inch Plasmas and LEDs which made 1600P PC monitor pricing absurd. This is really disappointing imo.
I agree. I used a 1680x1050 monitor for nearly five years due to 1600p prices being constantly $1300+. It just didn't seem worth it to me. I find it a bit absurd that I purchased an IPS 1440p 27" monitor nearly 3 years ago for only $280 brand new, but had to drop $700+ to get a TN 1440p 27" monitor a few months ago that would do 144hz and had Gsync.
Now we have to pay double that to get into a 34" monitor with the features to take full advantage of a $300 GPU.
Thinking back, I bought a 55" 1080p plasma TV almost 6 years ago for $650...
I ended up selling the Swift and will wait until I do not have to settle. I'm back to using a normal 1440p 27" Viewsonic. Hopefully someone comes out with a 34" adaptive sync capable display that isn't a cash grab.