The new Samsung Odyssey G9 Mini Led
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Yes, probs around 6 months!
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£1850.40
I'm fairly sure I'd have been fine with the current G9 but I do remember years ago trying out a total of 3 65" Samsung LCD TVs in my lounge and hating the backlight bleed/bloom in dark scenes, and so I bought one of their plasma TVs instead. Having invested in a new PC with all the extra cost & delays of recent times, I decided that I ought to splash the extra cash for the Neo and not risk any regrets.
And the price has changed to £1849. I guess someone in marketing decided that the "ending in a 9 pricing" was necessary to lure buyers? I'm trying not to be irritated that I overpaid by £1.40 by pre-ordering before that decision - at least they didn't just change the $ to a £ (but I had already decided that it it was over 2K I would get the current one instead).
I'm fairly sure I'd have been fine with the current G9 but I do remember years ago trying out a total of 3 65" Samsung LCD TVs in my lounge and hating the backlight bleed/bloom in dark scenes, and so I bought one of their plasma TVs instead. Having invested in a new PC with all the extra cost & delays of recent times, I decided that I ought to splash the extra cash for the Neo and not risk any regrets.
And the price has changed to £1849. I guess someone in marketing decided that the "ending in a 9 pricing" was necessary to lure buyers? I'm trying not to be irritated that I overpaid by £1.40 by pre-ordering before that decision - at least they didn't just change the $ to a £ (but I had already decided that it it was over 2K I would get the current one instead).
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Anyone pre-ordering one yet? Tried using student portal but couldn't work 
UK is getting shafted again with no free JBL Headphones but instead given an overpriced 1TB HD.
UK is getting shafted again with no free JBL Headphones but instead given an overpriced 1TB HD.
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Just seen it up for pre order with hdd. On the US site it’s up for $3000, Would have ordered one but my 3090 has just gone pop and I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get it replaced.
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Decided to pre-order, 36 months interest free via paypal swayed it for me. Hopefully no issue like the original G9.
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£1850 is definitely MUCH better pricing than what people were saying in here, but its still very high. Though I am very tempted, im definitely going to wait a couple months for some sort of sale or discount and also see if there are any bugs with the screen and QC issues like last years model with the screen coming loose from the back plastic etc etc.. Will need to see a bunch of reviews on it as well
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I saw it on Samsung's Australian site yesterday for $2999 including tax which now seems a very good price. If the US $2499.99 is before sales tax then actually the UK price is as good as if not better than the US price which is surprising.
Of course if this monitor is actually worth any of those prices has become a very subjective matter these days. If it had been listed at £2499 then I suspect that there will still have been plenty of pre-orders, although perhaps nobody would be admitting to that? What's worse is that in spite of what I have paid for this monitor my expectations are not actually that I will receive perfection. I won't accept pixel problems and likely not the light bleed but it seems that I will need to accept the thermal popping - and maybe it will be worse if the mini-LEDs produce more heat in the Neo?
Of course if this monitor is actually worth any of those prices has become a very subjective matter these days. If it had been listed at £2499 then I suspect that there will still have been plenty of pre-orders, although perhaps nobody would be admitting to that? What's worse is that in spite of what I have paid for this monitor my expectations are not actually that I will receive perfection. I won't accept pixel problems and likely not the light bleed but it seems that I will need to accept the thermal popping - and maybe it will be worse if the mini-LEDs produce more heat in the Neo?
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That's insane! and here we all have to pay almost double for that it is. Doesn't seemed there's consistency throughout.
Healthy profit margins that's for sure. Well the Acer pg32uqx is completely priced out now compared to this.
If they can sell it for £980 you'd think they'd be making them for much less.. if it's that cheap to make, why didn't they also put it into the 28 inch 4k version.
If they can sell it for £980 you'd think they'd be making them for much less.. if it's that cheap to make, why didn't they also put it into the 28 inch 4k version.
Anyone pre-ordering one yet? Tried using student portal but couldn't work
UK is getting shafted again with no free JBL Headphones but instead given an overpriced 1TB HD.
No student discount on this. Asked live chat.
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VPN and international shipping?
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Could order 2 unitsSell the other off and you get it for free
Genius! Now just need an Dubai phone number....
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Looks like Germany pre-order comes a 2TB SSD Touch drive. Why do UK always get the worst deal? 
Kaufen | 49" Odyssey Neo Monitor G9 LS49AG954NUXEN | Samsung Deutschland
Kaufen | 49" Odyssey Neo Monitor G9 LS49AG954NUXEN | Samsung Deutschland
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