Ask HN: What is your monitor setup? I'm in the market for a new monitor. My setup is both for gaming and working and I'm using a gigabyte 27" 1440p/144hz monitor and an old dell 23" monitor. While refresh rate is great on the gigabyte monitor it leaves a lot to be desired in terms of picture quality. The old DELL looks even better than the newish gigabyte monitor. I wonder what everyone else is using these days ? I can take some inspirations from your posts. |
Basically, I would say that don't chase max specs, you will likely use only half of the capabilities anyway. Decide what are your deal-breakers and just find the cheapest match.
PS: I went to 32" from 24". I was concerned with the size but I think I would be able to use up to 38". It depends on your desk setup and how far the screen is from your face. I cannot touch my screen with my hand, it's too far. So larger screen works for me. But above 38", I would definitely have to use my eyes more and maybe even move my head so see the corners, which is a clear indicator of oversized screen.
The benefit for me is I use the main system to look things up and then switch to the target system and I have the main display as a reference and the other as well,
Used to have the side monitor as the KVM one, but find I work better with the switched monitor the one in the center, as a side display I would get sore/tired neck from always looking to the side. With it center I am more comfortable to concentrate on the task at hand on the other system I have up.
A single 32" 4K OLED monitor at work, along with my 16" MacBook Pro screen. Formerly, it was 3 x 27" 4K and 1440p monitors, but I wanted to focus more and it was jacking up my neck.
I have to monitor number of different things throughout the day at work, but I moved to a model of better automated monitoring and alerting to free up the brain and lessen context switches.
At work, a couple of Dell 27" UHD monitors attached to my Windows laptop via DP ports on a dock. Single desktop as I have plenty of screen space. I mostly live in Visual Studio and Outlook/Teams.
No complaints about either - all works pretty well.
I was reminiscing about how much dual monitors used to be a pretty standard thing, and definitely pretty helpful when economical monitors maxed out at 1920x1080, but seems much less prevalent these days. Not too surprising I guess considering the costs, space consumption, hardware, cables, etc etc.
I would love to test a 16" MBP to see if this kills the need for an external display.
Couldn't adapt to wide or bigger tvs, on my short lived tests..
Ultra wide screen 49" like Samsung G9 is nice too but it's very heavy and expensive, it's not that much trouble to actually have multiple screens instead
Then I have another monitor behind (connected to another computer) in landscape mode showing some dashboards etc, but it's off at the moment.
I like having two, because you can dock/organize windows more cleanly than with one giant monitor.
Multi tasking seems worse on sequoia… i cant fully articulate it yet
Moved to it from 2 Dell displays. After years of dual displays, I'm glad I made this switch.