You can only look at one thing at a time so its a single 34 ultrawide
Multi tasking seems worse on sequoia… i cant fully articulate it yet
Ask HN: What is your monitor setup?
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#12You’re all doing it wrong. 27“ 2k with 4:3 crop.
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#1334" WQHD in the middle, laptop on the right, on the left a normal 27inch 16:9 screen in portraits mode to read lots of text (emails, git, logs, websites with text etc.)
Ultra wide screen 49" like Samsung G9 is nice too but it's very heavy and expensive, it's not that much trouble to actually have multiple screens instead
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#14I find one 4K is good. I wouldn't bother with anything not 4K these days. I was reminiscing about how much dual monitors used to be a pretty standard thing, and definitely pretty helpful when economical monitors maxed out at 1920x1080, but seems much less prevalent these days. Not too surprising I guess considering the costs, space consumption, hardware, cables, etc etc.
Suprisingly affordable. And AI wont push prices up hopefully.
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#16I have 32" GIGABYTE M32U that I bought for christmas of 2021 and It's been great. I see it is still on US Amazon for $400. It's not the best but I cannot say I had any issues or miss any features. I paid 850€ which was a lot but specs-wise, anything close was well above 1000€. So it was a clear winner.
Basically, I would say that don't chase max specs, you will likely use only half of the capabilities anyway. Decide what are your deal-breakers and just find the cheapest match.
PS: I went to 32" from 24". I was concerned with the size but I think I would be able to use up to 38". It depends on your desk setup and how far the screen is from your face. I cannot touch my screen with my hand, it's too far. So larger screen works for me. But above 38", I would definitely have to use my eyes more and maybe even move my head so see the corners, which is a clear indicator of oversized screen.
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#17Similar 27 4k display on the office and another at home. Plug the Macbook and usually keep it closed. Would swap for an 5K ... if I won the lottery. Otherwise its perfectly fine.
I would love to test a 16" MBP to see if this kills the need for an external display.
Couldn't adapt to wide or bigger tvs, on my short lived tests..
Re: Ask HN: What is your monitor setup?
#18A single 27" 4K monitor at home, along with my 14" MacBook Pro screen.
A single 32" 4K OLED monitor at work, along with my 16" MacBook Pro screen. Formerly, it was 3 x 27" 4K and 1440p monitors, but I wanted to focus more and it was jacking up my neck.
I have to monitor number of different things throughout the day at work, but I moved to a model of better automated monitoring and alerting to free up the brain and lessen context switches.