Monitor
Samsung Odyssey G5 32"
Curved 32-inch gaming monitor — bigger than its size feels, less colour-accurate than an editing display would be.
Bought alongside the laptop in 2023 as the desktop display for everything — gaming first, creative work second, daily browsing and code in between. The Odyssey G5 32" is Samsung's curved 1440p VA-panel gaming monitor — 1000R curvature, 165Hz refresh, FreeSync, a screen built for first-person games and immersive single-player rather than spreadsheet work.
The curve is the load-bearing detail. A 32-inch flat monitor on a normal desk reads as oversized and forces head movement to take in the corners; the 1000R curve pulls the edges back into the natural eye-line and the screen reads as a sensible size despite the diagonal. That's the trade that makes the whole thing work for daily use, not just gaming.
Where it falls short is colour accuracy. VA panels run wider gamuts and deeper contrast than IPS but they're not as consistent, and the curve introduces a slight off-axis colour shift in the corners — neither matters for most desktop work, both matter for grading photos to print. The D3500's colour pipeline lands here for sorting and the broad pass; for final colour decisions, the laptop's IPS panel is the second opinion. An eventual editing monitor sits on the long-term wishlist; the G5 isn't going anywhere in the meantime.