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PC 4K 43" monitors
PlainName:
The single advantage I see with multiple monitors is being able to max a window to only that monitor. If that's what you need to do - perhaps having a main app maxed on there with supporting stuff on the others - it works well.
But having now tried a massive desktop I wouldn't go back to multiple smaller ones. One major reason is because the screen bezels sit smack in the middle of your workspace if you don't have a master screen. And if you do have a master screen you're stuck with the in the middle and the other(s) off to one side. Whilst you can technically spread an app across two screens, that bezel gets in the way, so realistically the maximum size for a window is a single screen.
On the 4K I can have it any way I want, wherever I want. As I said earlier, the only real downside is some app starting up maxed, but once tamed it's a non-issue.
wraper:
--- Quote from: PlainName on April 20, 2023, 02:29:33 pm ---The single advantage I see with multiple monitors is being able to max a window to only that monitor. If that's what you need to do - perhaps having a main app maxed on there with supporting stuff on the others - it works well.
But having now tried a massive desktop I wouldn't go back to multiple smaller ones. One major reason is because the screen bezels sit smack in the middle of your workspace if you don't have a master screen. And if you do have a master screen you're stuck with the in the middle and the other(s) off to one side. Whilst you can technically spread an app across two screens, that bezel gets in the way, so realistically the maximum size for a window is a single screen.
On the 4K I can have it any way I want, wherever I want. As I said earlier, the only real downside is some app starting up maxed, but once tamed it's a non-issue.
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The problem is that you cannot see the whole wide screen at once. With two monitors you can use main monitor straight in front of you for most things and put another monitor under angle so you basically switch between the two and have comfortable viewing distance for both. With ultra wide one, you cannot see all of it at once anyway, and with a downside that it's right and left side are uncomfortably far away compared to center of the screen. Even super curved screens are not that curved to mitigate that, and strong curvature is a whole another issue that may bog you. App toolbars located on the sides only makes it worse. So you may end up only using middle of the screen in most cases and waste the rest of the area. It may be decent for some sorts of gaming like racing though if center of the screen is what you want to look at most of the time. Modern monitor bezels are small, so you can easily have only like 1-1.5cm wide dead area between the monitors.
paulca:
Why do you need to see the whole screen at once?
I wish I had a photo of a "Ops desks" in NYSE. While most people had a single 22" LCD, us developers had 2, 24" LCDs.
The Ops Desks had 9 x 24" LCDs arranged in a 3x3 grid.
It wasn't so they could see it all "at once", but so that a single flashing alert light on any one of 20 different dashboards "could" be seen immediate in context.
In my current company the Ops and support "floor" has 4 x 65" LCD panels on a "Dash wall" showing dashboards.... or one with the Wii Fit and another watching the mirror of someone playing VR Spiderman, depending on how busy it is.
paulca:
And yes multiple monitors adds a layer of flexibility a single large one does not.
Multiple inputs can be assigned to one or other screen. I spend most of my days with one monitor extending off the work laptop and the other my personal PC. (Part of me wishes Synergy was free and could get past the work laptop firewall).
It's also very nice while gaming. The vast majority of AAA titles will lock you into full screen and barely support "windowed" mode even if you beg them. Most will allow non-exclusive or boundary less full screen, such that you can with a bit of effort, free your mouse from the game and still click in the other screen.
I have also run 2 copies of a full screen game one on each monitor. Eve Online. Not a small game!
wraper:
--- Quote from: paulca on April 20, 2023, 04:28:16 pm ---Why do you need to see the whole screen at once?
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I said that you can view neither of sides decently (unless you move the chair). Therefore only middle of it is decently useable, at which point you could just put a normal monitor instead of that and get the same decently viewable area with advantage of being able to put another decently viewable monitor. I'm talking about big ultrawide monitors with height similar to 27-32" 16:9 ones.
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