Team of developers need new monitors (need advice)
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@asdf said in Team of developers need new monitors (need advice):
In what way do your monitors suck?
I'm using a pair of E2211Hbs at work. They're not terribly bright, have huge bezels, are quite deep, don't have HDMI or speakers or (obviously) audio out, don't have all that great a color gamut. Compare that to this sexy beast: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CPCIPSU/, which is what I use at home. IPS vs (I think) TN, has 3 inputs, 2 of which are HDMI, has, as I said above, speakers, thinner bezel, brighter, better color gamut, much thinner and curved, not boxy (which is purely aesthetic and not functional, but still, looks nicer) and smaller bezels.
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@Frank said in Team of developers need new monitors (need advice):
@blakeyrat I appreciate the help, but in this environment we are assigned equipment. Some of which came from prior developers, and used until unusable. While we try to keep things modern, its not determined by us.
buy hdmi-only monitors, then the rest of the computer will became unusable and can finnally be replaced
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I have 2x Dell Ultrasharp U2414h at home: they're 24" Full HD monitors, connected with DisplayPort. They look great (the bezels on them are quite thin, which is nice) and they provide an excellent picture quality.
But... if you are looking at new monitors in 2016, you might want to consider the nuclear route: 4K screens, and then up your DPI settings to 200%. Jeff Atwood (yeah, I know) wrote an article about it a while back.
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@dcon said in Team of developers need new monitors (need advice):
Guess I lucked out... I had a 17" CRT that did 1600x1200 - VGA only. That sucker was NICE. Except it weighted a ton and required a very deep desk.
Back around 2000, I had a couple different 19" CRTs that did 1600x1200. They weighed something like 45 pounds, which I think is pretty close to how much my current 55" TV weighs.
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@AlexMedia said in Team of developers need new monitors (need advice):
But... if you are looking at new monitors in 2016, you might want to consider the nuclear route: 4K screens, and then up your DPI settings to 200%. Jeff Atwood (yeah, I know) wrote an article about it a while back.
Do not do 4K monitors unless you're willing (and able-- GPUs are expensive) to run only 4K monitors.
No OSes currently on the market can correctly handle a 2-monitor situation where one is HiDPI and the other is not.
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Wonder what the state of the union is like now?