Ask HN: What monitor do you use for coding?

#1

Post by maciekp » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 4:14 PM UTC

Preferably 22" to 27"

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Post by zachlatta » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 4:34 PM UTC

At work I use my Macbook Air's included monitor along with a 20" Samsung monitor. Not sure which model though.

At home I have three Acer S231HLs (23"). They're definitely not the best monitors, but they can put things on screen, which is the most important thing to me.

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Post by cjamerlan » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

I've got a Mac Pro hooked up to two 23" Apple Cinema displays. I've normally got XCode open on one screen, and Visual Studio on the other.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 6:14 PM UTC

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#5

Post by staunch » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 9:04 PM UTC

Dell Ultrasharp really are the best value monitors you can buy. I've had one 20" Ultrasharp for almost 10 years and it's still great. 2x24" or 1x27" is my preference.

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Post by codeonfire » Mon, Jul 15, 2013, 9:07 PM UTC

3x 24" Viewsonics and a no-name 24" that's on it's last leg. The monitor is not that important it's the pixel count that I care about

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Post by tagabek » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 1:17 AM UTC

13" Macbook Pro for mobile development. It works.

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Post by caw » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:27 AM UTC

staunch wrote: post #5

Dell Ultrasharp really are the best value monitors you can buy. I've had one 20" Ultrasharp for almost 10 years and it's still great. 2x24" or 1x27" is my preference.

At home I've got a Dell SP2208WFP. Quite a good monitor. I'm torn between wanting more pixels (it's 1650x1080) and waiting for it to hold out for 4K to come down in price :)

At work I've got a 24" 1920x1200 HP S-IPS (forget the model, $400ish MSRP), and some random 19" Viewsonic I requisitioned from somewhere. The HP is really great, if you don't mind the only inputs are digital only.

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Post by ragatskynet » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:04 PM UTC

I am going to get a dell u2412m, now I have a Samsung 24" monitor (I don't know the exact type but it is 1920x1200). I would not want to change to a smaller or larger one, though two 24"s would be nice. Sadly my workspace is not large enough.

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Post by arh68 » Tue, Jul 16, 2013, 2:36 PM UTC

Of late, I've been using a 12" 1024x768 screen. It's hard to get distracted when you can only see 1 thing at a time ;)

A single IPS 27" 2560x1440 is great, though. (I used one for about a year) Tiling 3 windows vertically is wonderful, but it sometimes feels too big. Multiple monitors never worked for me unless they're small (<19")