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Rotate your monitor and work in 1200x1920.
by DrStalker 12y ago
Rotate your monitor and work in 1200x1920.
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- AdamTReineke 12y agoI run two 1080p monitors in portrait on my desk at work. It's unreal how many interfaces assume you're widescreen: images are cut off abruptly after they scale to the width of the screen, horizontal scrollbars appear as default widths of panels in apps assume a widescreen monitor, and Excel spreadsheets flow off to the right. I'd love a 1920x1920 monitor.
- wtallis 12y ago1080 is absolutely not wide enough for today's software and web sites, but 1200 is mostly manageable. Anything that is too wide for 1200 either has too many columns as an attempt to use the absurd width of most monitors, or its lines of text are too long to be readable.
- MrDom 12y agoAnother issue I had with a portrait monitor is, once you hit a certain size, you don't use the extra vertical real estate. You wind up moving your head up and down (mostly down) and you leave your head like that for a while sometimes. It's terrible for your back and neck, even standing.
- imanaccount247 12y ago>1080 is absolutely not wide enough for today's software and web sites It certainly is. My browser is never even that wide now, and the only thing I ever run full screen is games.
- gagege 12y agoI just made my browser window smaller in agreement with your comment.
- jonknee 12y agoIt's not unreal for desktop apps to assume the user has a wide screen, every computer you buy has one!
- nitrogen 12y agoNot everybody maximizes their windows, though.
- userbinator 12y agoSomewhat hard to do that with a laptop... 4:3 is about right for a laptop since you can't make them too "tall" or they'll become difficult to handle, much like books.