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--- Quote from: wraper on April 20, 2023, 04:39:14 pm ---
--- 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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Presumably you've tried this for some time? I don't find a problem seeing the sides (although maybe a curved screen might be instructive). With three previous monitors in an L I could angle the side one a bit, but all that does is fix my head position since moving at all would ruin the arrangement.

With my current monitor I often have three Word windows open side-by-side that fill the full width of the screen. The one I am working in is in the middle and the other two are for reference/searching. Don't have a problem treating any of them equally. In some ways it is better than separate monitors because it doesn't extend so far to the sides (that is, it's as if the entire display setup is moved to the middle, but with no bezel to get in the way).

And just to round things off I do actually have another monitor, a tiny 7" 1280x720, which is perched on the top and carries a calendar plus some performance monitoring gadgets. And I use virtual desktops too :)
paulca:
As per the photo, I have TWO ultra-wide's SIDE-BY-SIDE.  5 ft across.

You guys are currently on the left of the left.  (No political pun intended).
Right Left is the 4 Access points browser tabs after a routines reboot.

Left Right and Right Right are blank as I didn't turn it back on after the work laptop shut down.  I'm in "Forty what F**king pence a kWh?" protest mode again.

EDIT:

They are not one flat plain.  The acer has a slight curve, but the two sit at about 15* angle.  All I need to do is rotate my head 15* to be aligned center on each.

I struggle more reaching over to use one of two keyboards too often.  Only just now remembered to move "my" keyboard back to centre and stop "craning".
wraper:

--- Quote from: paulca on April 20, 2023, 06:08:16 pm ---As per the photo, I have TWO ultra-wide's SIDE-BY-SIDE.  5 ft across.

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You have monitors so small it does not even make sense to buy ultra wide. You pay more for a 'benefit' of having smaller screen height/area with an oddball resolution.
wraper:
Also you should not forget that you get about 18% less of actual screen area when comparing 21:9 with 16:9 aspect ratio monitors with the same "screen size" (diagonal) and much worse for screens with even larger aspect ratio.
paulca:
I'm not quite sure how you define "small".  5 feet by 2 feet is not a small screen area by anyones measure.

Your second comment would be true if I didn't already accomodate the aspect.  43" 16:9 is about 10cm wider than a 34" ultrawide.  So it should just slot into place.
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