What do you really want from a computer monitor?

I'm really happy with the 32" 1920x1080 HP monitor I bought on special, because everyone wants 4k or more now.

Fun fact: I called my spouse to see if she was cool with me getting one, she said "No... get 2", and my child has the other. 2 months later, the current health crisis hit, and you couldn't get anything at any price for quite a while.

A good size to resolution ratio. My MacBook drives a 27 inch 4K in scaled mode that looks like 2560 x 1440 pixels. What the OS actually does is it renders a 5K image and then scales it down. The scaling is x 0,75 which can be a resource hog. I guess it would be better to downscale by 0,5 which would happen if you’d run an actual 5K monitor like the LG Ultrafine. This would still give you a sane scaling, anything else is either too large or too small on a 27 inch. The culprit is that there’s almost no 5K monitors on the market and the LG model is way too expensive. At this point I could just get a newer computer to iron out the scaling issue.

Great viewing angle. My 27" 4k looks "dark" in the corners from a center position.

I'd also prefer a display with integrated speakers so that a Chromecast could easily turn it into something useful when it gets replaced.

(I would probably try a Ultrawide next time, since its not a big difference in veritcal space with this monitor (scaled) compared to my old 22" display)