Looking at largish widescreen monitors
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From this thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... it was suggested I needed a large monitor and I can see the point as I would usually have a twin 24" setup at work. So I have been looking at options for cheapish widescreen monitors and have come up with these two both of which are around £200:
Samsung Curved 32" or LG 29"
Samsung is curved but lower resolution and slower refresh rate. LG is not curved but is a physically smaller screen. It's a discontinued model though. Not for gaming so the extra resolution is very useful.
Which would you go for or would you buy something else?
Samsung Curved 32" or LG 29"
Samsung is curved but lower resolution and slower refresh rate. LG is not curved but is a physically smaller screen. It's a discontinued model though. Not for gaming so the extra resolution is very useful.
Which would you go for or would you buy something else?
plasticpig said:
From this thread https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&... it was suggested I needed a large monitor and I can see the point as I would usually have a twin 24" setup at work. So I have been looking at options for cheapish widescreen monitors and have come up with these two both of which are around £200:
Samsung Curved 32" or LG 29"
Samsung is curved but lower resolution and slower refresh rate. LG is not curved but is a physically smaller screen. It's a discontinued model though. Not for gaming so the extra resolution is very useful.
Which would you go for or would you buy something else?
I have also been looking at these types of screens and would make the following observations:Samsung Curved 32" or LG 29"
Samsung is curved but lower resolution and slower refresh rate. LG is not curved but is a physically smaller screen. It's a discontinued model though. Not for gaming so the extra resolution is very useful.
Which would you go for or would you buy something else?
- The samsung isn't widescreen, just big
- They are both 1080 pixels tall, and I think that at those screen sizes that might start to become an issue
- The LG is probably better assuming that you want widescreen (I am sitting looking at an LG 1920x1080 IPS screen)
- It may be worth looking at 3440 x 1440 screens as they are both widescreen and higher resolution.
I say that I have been looking, but actually I have an old HD monitor in the garage so if I decide that I need more screen I will just hook that up so that I have dual monitors.
Mr Pointy said:
Is there a particular reason for going for one big monitor rather than two 24" ones? I find the ability to pin a window to a monitor rather than drag them around from overlapping to be very useful.
At the risk of telling you things that you already know: Windows Key + left/right arrows will snap the selected window to the left half / right half of the screen or screens and makes it easy and quick to re-arrange them. Windows 10 will also (when you snap one window to a half screen) ask which other window you want to put in the other half.David_M said:
At the risk of telling you things that you already know: Windows Key + left/right arrows will snap the selected window to the left half / right half of the screen or screens and makes it easy and quick to re-arrange them. Windows 10 will also (when you snap one window to a half screen) ask which other window you want to put in the other half.
Indeed I tried that but maybe it's just how I work that makes it sub-optimal for me. If I'm using something like AutoCad I don't want it pinned to half the screen I like it full screen on a 24" screen & then Outlook &/or a web browser on the other screen/s.I do think the comment about the low vertical resolution of the two linked screens is a valid one. I've always used 1920x1200 screens as the additional vertical resolution is very useful & 1080 is like working in a letterbox. If I was going to have a big screen it would need to be something like 3440x1440. Ironically the icons & text are then a bit small for my ancient eyes so I have to bump the scaling up by 25% but at least I get some of the benefit.
David_M said:
I have also been looking at these types of screens and would make the following observations:
- The samsung isn't widescreen, just big
- They are both 1080 pixels tall, and I think that at those screen sizes that might start to become an issue
- The LG is probably better assuming that you want widescreen (I am sitting looking at an LG 1920x1080 IPS screen)
- It may be worth looking at 3440 x 1440 screens as they are both widescreen and higher resolution.
I say that I have been looking, but actually I have an old HD monitor in the garage so if I decide that I need more screen I will just hook that up so that I have dual monitors.
3440 x 1440 is out of budget I am afraid. - The samsung isn't widescreen, just big
- They are both 1080 pixels tall, and I think that at those screen sizes that might start to become an issue
- The LG is probably better assuming that you want widescreen (I am sitting looking at an LG 1920x1080 IPS screen)
- It may be worth looking at 3440 x 1440 screens as they are both widescreen and higher resolution.
I say that I have been looking, but actually I have an old HD monitor in the garage so if I decide that I need more screen I will just hook that up so that I have dual monitors.
plasticpig said:
3440 x 1440 is out of budget I am afraid.
Then I'd look for either - 2560x1080 up to about 29" (96PPI, wider in physical measurements), if your use case needs widescreen, or
- 27" 2560x1440 (109PPI, taller in physical measurements) if you can live with "normal" hd proportions and would like a higher ppi screen
I think that the above are broadly at the same price point and cheaper than 3440x1440.
David_M said:
Then I'd look for either
- 2560x1080 up to about 29" (96PPI, wider in physical measurements), if your use case needs widescreen, or
- 27" 2560x1440 (109PPI, taller in physical measurements) if you can live with "normal" hd proportions and would like a higher ppi screen
I think that the above are broadly at the same price point and cheaper than 3440x1440.
The LG is 2560x1080 so I think I will go with that. - 2560x1080 up to about 29" (96PPI, wider in physical measurements), if your use case needs widescreen, or
- 27" 2560x1440 (109PPI, taller in physical measurements) if you can live with "normal" hd proportions and would like a higher ppi screen
I think that the above are broadly at the same price point and cheaper than 3440x1440.
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