Ultrawide monitor (for development) - flat or curved screen?
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What do you recommend? /ravi
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It's hard to recommend a G9 for development, but it's really easy to recommend a giant curved screen. Maybe a high refresh rate (120hz+) is actually a pretty great thing if you're staring at it for hours. Reasons: 1) No futzing about with monitor 1 vs 2 and their relative positions, one of them not getting signal one day, etc. 2) The curved screens are supposed to be better on your eyes because the focal point remains the same, less refocusing. 3) No matter if you buy the exact same brand of monitor and then you calibrate them, they will still not be "the same". 4) Nobody needs to be turning the monitor sideways to see more code without scrolling, you can only look at a few at a time anyway. 5) It's a cheaper way to get the same amount of screen real estate. Granted, you can't really go cheap low-spec big curved screen, but you don't really want the corollary of multiple cheap low-spec panels anyway if you care about your eyes.
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Do you think you'd have space for 2 monitors if the one on the right were vertical instead of horizontal? I've not tried it, but I know several who prefer their second screen to be vertical.
I might, but I prefer to work in landscape mode. I experimented with a vertical screen at work and found it hard to use. /ravi
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What do you recommend? /ravi
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Thanks again for your useful and informative comments! /ravi
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What do you recommend? /ravi
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I would get 2 monitors, like 2 27" or 2 larger and a nice stand. I bought 2 Dell 27" and the Dell stand that holds 2 monitors and I'm very happy with them. Added a 3rd 24" monitor to have larger fonts, easier to read for actual reading from apps that don't have adjustable text size. I went to Viewsonic HQ as a reseller for an event and got to checkout all the monitors, and the curved ones really hooked me. I wanted one really bad. But my friend at Kingston, Director of IT gave me the 411 on a single curved monitor and told me the horror stories about actually using them for development. I can't remember the exact issues that came up, but it was a long list of things that didn't pan out. Most of the issues were remote desktop and video meeting related.
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I would get 2 monitors, like 2 27" or 2 larger and a nice stand. I bought 2 Dell 27" and the Dell stand that holds 2 monitors and I'm very happy with them. Added a 3rd 24" monitor to have larger fonts, easier to read for actual reading from apps that don't have adjustable text size. I went to Viewsonic HQ as a reseller for an event and got to checkout all the monitors, and the curved ones really hooked me. I wanted one really bad. But my friend at Kingston, Director of IT gave me the 411 on a single curved monitor and told me the horror stories about actually using them for development. I can't remember the exact issues that came up, but it was a long list of things that didn't pan out. Most of the issues were remote desktop and video meeting related.
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Unfortunately I don't have enough space for 2 panels at home, which prompted this thread. I use 2 24" panels (each 1920 x 1200) at work. /ravi
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My problem with curved big screens is simple: are they good for your eyes? I'm pretty sure that my eyesight has got worse as a result of decades of screen use, and curved screens mean that for 6~8 hours a day you are focusing at exactly the same distance which can't be good long term for the eye muscles. Can it?
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I used to make it a habit of looking away every 20m to a distance of more or less 20ft for 20s as I read somewhere once this prevents eye strain known surprisingly as the 20/20/20 rule, but have since forgotten and neglected to do so, but your post has reminded me, so I thank you. Also I wear blue filter glasses and am glad of it. Also the Visual Studio edit window background set to Color of the Universe 0xFFF8E7 255 248 231 I find soothing. Your post has led me to examine recommended for minimum eyestrain monitors. Will consider same. Again thank you. - Best
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What do you recommend? /ravi
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I say ditch the ultrawide all together! I went with a 43" monitor at UHD. It's big enough that all of the pixels are useful (in other words, I run it at standard DPI @ 3840 x 2160 pixels). I have a 32" UHD monitor at work and I've found that 125% is needed in order to be useful. Also, the 43" monitor I'm referring to is made to be a monitor and comes with a stand and doesn't look weird like it does when you plug a PC into a TV.
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What do you recommend? /ravi
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I purchased a flat 34" ultra wide. Mainly use it for write code (development). The monitor supported picture-by-picture. I really like it a lot. Depending where I'm sitting, it feels like the text on either ends are harder to read. Guessing cause I'm viewing from the side. Haven't tried a curved, so not able to give an opinion. Getting it would help, who knows.
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Funnily enough (not, don't ask) I had an accident with my 43" Sony Bravia flat screen I was using. Was 10 years old, but still pretty nice for 1920x1080. Its flat, and while I thought about a curved screen for this it didn't really seem to matter. It was arms length away, so not like I was doing a lot of head turning from left to right. Ordered a refurbished 43" Samsung tv, quad density, for only a quarter of the price that I paid for the Sony. I think the higher density will be nice, we will see....
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I purchased a flat 34" ultra wide. Mainly use it for write code (development). The monitor supported picture-by-picture. I really like it a lot. Depending where I'm sitting, it feels like the text on either ends are harder to read. Guessing cause I'm viewing from the side. Haven't tried a curved, so not able to give an opinion. Getting it would help, who knows.
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Depending where I'm sitting, it feels like the text on either ends are harder to read.
Right. Which is why I'm leaning towards a curved screen. /ravi
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