Curved displays are great if you are near a window or any other light source that causes glare. I switched from flat to curved and there’s no more glare on my display.
I don't like curved displays
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Re: I don't like curved displays
#42I don't get 'em either.
What I really don't like are superwide monitors. They play hell with usability in screen-sharing contexts.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#43I don't mind curved screens, but what I do mind is that so many wide / curved screens have such low vertical resolution. 1440px is just so little space.
For a 34 incher, 1440px is perfect, and so is a 34 incher. A higher resolution renders text too small to read, and a larger monitor has one moving their head around instead of just their eyes. Of course, they are not ideal for the graphical work that the author implies, but they can't be beat for productivity work imho.
> A higher resolution renders text too small to read
Have you missed the last decade of High DPI displays and scaling?
Re: I don't like curved displays
#44Different people have different preferences. I suspect a bunch of smaller manufacturers would have more success with their products if there was an easy way to try them out for a week or two. Buying hardware sight-unseen incurs a heavy risk penalty. Buying it after seeing it in a store for ten minutes is some reduction, but not a lot. How many people would spend $250 on a split ergo ortho keyboard having never touche…
> a mushy $12 pack-in included with their Dell at work For what they are, the standard Dell keyboards are quite nice.
Pepperidge Farm remembers when Fujitsu computers (those assembled in germany into the 2010s) used to come with rebadged steel-plate Cherry keyboards. Okay, they had mushy browns I think, but still. You go unpack the bundled keyboard and it weighs a kilo. They were still rubberdomes (G83 I think?), just really nice ones.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#45Different people have different preferences. I suspect a bunch of smaller manufacturers would have more success with their products if there was an easy way to try them out for a week or two. Buying hardware sight-unseen incurs a heavy risk penalty. Buying it after seeing it in a store for ten minutes is some reduction, but not a lot. How many people would spend $250 on a split ergo ortho keyboard having never touche…
Over the years I've gifted a few nice keyboards to people and their immediate response has often been "why didn't I get a proper mechanical keyboard sooner!"
They had only used cheap plastic or laptop keyboards until then and never saw a keyboard as a tool to invest in for their profession (which often required plenty of typing).
Re: I don't like curved displays
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a cost thing, ultrawide has always been expensive relative to how much extra area you get, and pushing the resolution up compounds that. 5120x2160 (extended 4K) panels do exist but they cost a fortune.
Dell UltraSharp 40 Curved Thunderbolt™ Hub Monitor - U4025QW Worth every penny.
I have one as well. Indeed worth every penny, although to be fair that's quite a lot of pennies.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#47I used to not like them until I've switched to the 57", 1000R Samsung. I love it.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#48I don't mind curved screens, but what I do mind is that so many wide / curved screens have such low vertical resolution. 1440px is just so little space.
> 1440px is just so little space. 1440px tall on a common 13 tall ultrawide is 107 PPI. In my mind > 100 PPI is pretty much perfect for most tasks. Or are you talking about physical size?
100 ppi is horrible for coding.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#49I have a 2x 4k ultrawide. The Samsung Oddysey 55(?)inch variant. Not only is it very bright and legible, the fact that the screen takes up my field of view helps me focus. And I connect it to my MacBook using two seperate HDMI cables, so it's essentially two seperate monitors without bezels. I think I'll probably keep this monitor for a decade or so: any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have…
The top end Samsung Odyssey monitors definitely near impossible to beat with any other choice for folks that prefer curved displays. For folks that like flat, something like the PG32UQX is probably one of the better equivalents since the flat Odyssey monitors always assume "I want the highest end version" = "I want the curved version".
For those who don't care about maximum brightness quite as much, the new OLEDs are getting quite good for both curved and flat (though the lifespan issue isn't quite as fully solved as the manufacturers would like to have you believe, it's significantly better).
> any higher DPI and it doesn't make any difference because you have to size up the text.
I get irked (to perhaps irrational levels) when a monitor's DPI (really PPI) is phrased in terms of how big text appears. Text is already sized in physically based units (even when CSS lies and says "px" it's really fractions of an inch, similar to pt), DPI is how sharp/clear the text ends up looking for the given font size.
A monitor with twice the DPI should give you clearer text, not smaller text.
Re: I don't like curved displays
#50I don't mind curved screens, but what I do mind is that so many wide / curved screens have such low vertical resolution. 1440px is just so little space.
Easy solution: Reorient the monitor in portrait mode. /s