Are your retinas craving for second-rate prettiness? Then watch as we dump more 4k tulip wallpapers on you, for we decided you don’t have enough of broken pixels flowing through your veins to slow down your metaphorical work environment. Purple, orange, yellow..and woah, the double-hued one, as if the single muted color wasn’t attracting enough attention as it was.
Come on everyone admits: We all love to see a little eye candy when working on a spreadsheet. Who wouldn’t love a field of Dutch perfection looking back at them when you are dealing with clickthrough corporate email? But the fun doesn’t stop there-these are not just tulips.
No-they’re highs takes tulips.
Because the author, has in divine wisdom, decided each wall of paper a different color. Brilliant, I know. Picasso would be jealous.
Right, on wards to the thorny technical details no-one else thinks about: these pictures are bloody enormous. 4096 x 3112 pixels of completely uncompressed high-level conceit. Plus an implicit advisory embedded deep in the warranty page that goes: If you’re not running a curved monitor and a pimped-out graphics card, forget it
Because, honestly..nothing says ‘this shall be efficient’ quite like watching your desktop grind to a halt every time you click on ‘Show Desktop’. The tips are quite nice: if you have a ‘ginormous’ 4K curved display, go ahead. But if you have a small little laptop LCD, well..
As long as you download it anyway (please?)
And then resize it to 1920 px using a resize app, as if to punish yourself for having under-powered hardware. How charming..
How about the file sizes, folks? 5 to 6 meg per picture. Not for any complex artistic reasons (although I can’t argue that there are an awful lot of flowers and color in the shot) but more that the more things there are in the shot, the more it weighs down your hard drive. Not really art, more storage test wallpaper.
So.
Would you like these digital postcards from a tulip farm?
Go for it.
But don’t try to con anyone into thinking it’s about something other than visuals.
It’s about showing off on your screen and hoping your RAM is forgiving. The tulips are nice, sure-but you know they’ll be out of sight in a matter of seconds so you can get back to the job at hand.
Judgment: Feel free to get it if you need to but fire up your task manager first. You’ve been advised.
