As epistemological endeavours go, the philosophical consideration of what, exactly, constitutes an precise PC monitor versus a mere standing display screen is certainly a noble calling. Which presumably is why Corsair has cooked up this barely foolish new 14.5-inch show, the brand new Xeneon Edge—for the sheer mental giddiness of all of it.
Anyway, clocking in at 2,560 by 720 pixels, the Xeneon Edge has full touchscreen help and hooks up by way of both USB-C Alt Mode or HDMI. It’s designed to be fitted inside your case utilizing a 360mm radiator mounting level for a “modern” look, or mounted externally with the built-in magnets for straightforward entry.
The Xeneon Edge will also be plopped immediately in your desktop utilizing the included stand. The show helps each vertical and horizontal orientations, the latter maybe providing a natty new technique to feed your social media dependancy. It may very well be excellent for scrolling by tweets and different pointless on-line posts.
Corsair claims the Xeneon’s five-point multi-touch capacitive touchscreen gives, “an intuitive and interactive expertise when used externally, functioning as a typical Windows touchscreen show for added versatility.”
The horizontal decision is fairly excessive for a panel measuring simply over 14 inches throughout and works out to a heady 188 PPI. That’s higher even than the most recent 27-inch 4K OLEDs. So textual content can be tremendous crispy and the picture high quality must be nice, even when there isn’t any phrase for now on the exact panel know-how used right here or any specs like refresh, brightness or response.
Moreover, whereas Corsair would not go into a lot element, we assume it should function as a secondary show in Windows, albeit one with a barely odd decision and facet ratio. But does that make it a completely fledged monitor? Or can it solely actually be thought-about as some type of standing show?
On that observe, Corsair reveals the display screen displaying a collection of neat-looking instruments and apps, which can or could not come bundled with the Xeneon. Corsair is not quoting a value, however we doubt it is going to be low cost. On the opposite hand, we additionally do not doubt it should make a tower PC seem like one million bucks. Money no object, I’d slap one within the window of my rig only for the hell of it.
Corsair says the Xeneon Edge is out in Q2 this yr, which suggests it’s best to have the ability to bag one by no later than the tip of June. Watch this house for a value and perhaps, simply perhaps, a last and definitive dissertation on that monitor-versus-status-screen conundrum.
