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I thought about monitors quite a bit over the years: 1. Don't be cheap. You look at the damn thing 1/3 of your waking time. Monitor is like a mattress - buy th
by p1esk 7y ago
I thought about monitors quite a bit over the years:
1. Don't be cheap. You look at the damn thing 1/3 of your waking time. Monitor is like a mattress - buy the best for what you want to do on it (be it text, or gaming, or colors, etc). No compromises.
2. Refresh rate is just as important as resolution. I can feel my eyes physically hurting as I'm looking at text while I'm scrolling it up or down on a 60Hz monitor.
3. Go with dual monitors instead of a single ultrawide. For me it's just easier to organize files on two smaller screens than on one large one. And I can have steeper "curvature".
4. 27" is the ideal size for me. Tried 32" it was too large vertically to look up and down. Tried 25" it's a bit too small to fit multiple windows.
5. The ideal setup would be two 27" 5k @ 120Hz, unfortunately they don't exists yet.
- phonon 7y ago> 2. Refresh rate is just as important as resolution. I can feel my eyes physically hurting as I'm looking at text while I'm scrolling it up or down on a 60Hz monitor. LCDs don't actually "refresh" at 60Hz like CRTs do. (The screen is not "flickering" in a LCD.) Not sure what you are actually reacting to. A faster refresh rate with a panel type that has lower persistence make look smoother when scrolling perhaps.
- p1esk 7y agoI’m referring to how often the content is refreshed on a screen.
- munmaek 7y ago> make look smoother when scrolling All motion/rendering looks smoother. When I used a 240Hz monitor for the first time, I literally dragged windows back and forth for a while because the motion looked so good. Going back to 60Hz now is like nails on chalkboard, particularly for gaming.