1920 x 1080 onto 21:9 Monitor - Workable?

[Kiwi79]

My work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad T460 with a max res which appears to be 1920x1080. I was thinking of buying for home one of the ultrawide 21:9 monitors like the Dell 34" but 2560x-1080 is the res of that. What would happen with that sort of setup?

Am I better of just getting 2 x 27 16:9s?

Thanks in advance

[BigTZ4M]

T460 will drive an external monitor at up to 3840x2160 so will be fine with the monitor you’re suggesting

http://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/T...

It’s only the laptop panel that’s limited to HD. You can happily display on one, the other or both at different resolutions without issue. You can use the scaling features in the operating system to display a clear picture that fills the monitor whatever the resolution.

[miniman]

I'm from an era where getting 1024x768 on a laptop panel was the pinnacle of technology. What a world we live in.

[Kiwi79]

Thanks both for the replies, sounds like an ultra wide should work nicely

[TheRainMaker]

miniman said:

I'm from an era where getting 1024x768 on a laptop panel was the pinnacle of technology. What a world we live in.

I remember the days when you had a lcd panel which went on the top of an ohp to make it into a data projector, 640x480 if I remember, they were really bad even back then.

[TameRacingDriver]

Kiwi79 said:

Thanks both for the replies, sounds like an ultra wide should work nicely

It will be fine. I managed to drive my 3440x1440 monitor with an old Macbook Air from 2014, which is a fair bit older than the T460 you're talking about!

If anything a normal ultrawide should be easier to drive than the alternative of 2x 1080P monitors you suggested in the OP as you have a few million less pixels to drive, not to mention you would need a docking station to drive 2 external monitors.