recommend me a computer monitor

teK-- said:
Dual spreadsheets I find 2x screens in landscape generally work best. Portrait isn't good as you don't fit many columns.

2x 27" in QHD resolution with at least 100hz refresh would work well.

Dunno how spendy you want to get or desk space, but if you can squeeze in a 3rd screen it really is the bees knees!
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Ahem. I have the biggest and best spreadsheets you have ever seen. The most beautiful spreadsheets. Build a wall of columns.

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But seriously a 42" OLED at 4k 120hz is glorious for games and spreadsheets.

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beeb said:
Translation: You spend most of your work day gaming when you should be working. Got it. ;)
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Sshhh. Don't tell my wife about my dark urge run in BG3.

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I like Dell Ultrasharps for general use. Running a pair of 25″ 1440ps at 100% scaling (not HiDPI). The color accuracy is pretty good (although not wide-gamut). I've previously run 27s but prefer the slightly higher density and less distance edge-to-edge. It doesn't really matter to you but I really like having the hub and single USB-C cable. Annoyingly the 27″ version of my current monitor includes an ethernet port but the 25″ doesn't. Previous generations also had more USB ports.
 
wesdadude said:
I like Dell Ultrasharps for general use. Running a pair of 25″ 1440ps at 100% scaling (not HiDPI). The color accuracy is pretty good (although not wide-gamut). I've previously run 27s but prefer the slightly higher density and less distance edge-to-edge. It doesn't really matter to you but I really like having the hub and single USB-C cable. Annoyingly the 27″ version of my current monitor includes an ethernet port but the 25″ doesn't. Previous generations also had more USB ports.
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I like not having a dock, got kb/mouse dongle, headset dongle and webcam on a hub hanging off the monitor though which is a bit like a smaller version of a dock sans power socket.
 
I reckon a pair of these will be the go. Better than normal HD, not the exxy UHD though. Will be fine for a work setup.

Dell 24 Monitor - P2423D | Dell Australia

Shop the Dell 24 inch QHD Monitor (P2423D), featuring ComfortView Plus, connectivity ports, built-in low blue light screen, or view all external computer monitors at Dell.com.
www.dell.com
 
I'm a big fan of Dell monitors, My wife has a pair of Dell S2721QS monitors.
 
Haakon said:
I reckon a pair of these will be the go. Better than normal HD, not the exxy UHD though. Will be fine for a work setup.

Dell 24 Monitor - P2423D | Dell Australia

Shop the Dell 24 inch QHD Monitor (P2423D), featuring ComfortView Plus, connectivity ports, built-in low blue light screen, or view all external computer monitors at Dell.com.
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Dell has make pretty good monitors for a long while, and I've found them to be very reliable over the years too. I'd always gone for the U series in the past as they did 16:10 ratio which gave a few extra pixels to play with, but it seems that 16:10 panels are not widely produced anymore as there's only one Dell monitor with that ratio on their website.

A couple of things to also consider are:
- connectivity: if you plan to daisy chain DisplayPort you'll need version 1.4 (common on U series monitors). Of course your dock will likely permit 2 separate display port cables so it's not a big issue.
- your laptop and dock specs: if you don't have a discrete GPU in your laptop, you might experience laggy performance when driving 2 high resolution monitors. 2 x QHD displays is probably ok, but 2 x 4K could be problematic, and very annoying.
- your eyes: if I could justify the expense to swap my dual 1600x1200 24" setup for 2 x QHD 27" I would, but then my 53yo eyes aren't what they used to be (hence my custom title...). After doing some work at a customer site recently where they were rocking 2 x 32" 4K curved monitors at their workstations, I could literally see the benefit of the extra screen size and pixels. 32" is a bit much though.
 
I was under the impression that with a dock the dock itself did the monitor driving?

Well, the lappy in question is this pos - i cant believe they are worth this much!! Its a very cheap feeling thing with a fucking horrible screen....

https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/del...ude-14-7450-2-in-1-laptop/sm001l745014tktgwau

And the dock I have is this

Dell Thunderbolt⢠Dock â WD22TB4 | Dell Australia

View the Dell Thunderbolt Dock (WD22TB4) featuring a modular thunderbolt dock with swappable modules for easy upgrades, or shop all Laptop Computer Docks at Dell.com.
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Haakon said:
I was under the impression that with a dock the dock itself did the monitor driving?

Well, the lappy in question is this pos - i cant believe they are worth this much!! Its a very cheap feeling thing with a fucking horrible screen....

https://www.dell.com/en-au/shop/del...ude-14-7450-2-in-1-laptop/sm001l745014tktgwau

And the dock I have is this

Dell Thunderbolt⢠Dock â WD22TB4 | Dell Australia

View the Dell Thunderbolt Dock (WD22TB4) featuring a modular thunderbolt dock with swappable modules for easy upgrades, or shop all Laptop Computer Docks at Dell.com.
www.dell.com
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The dock does provide the ports to connect to monitors, but what gets displayed is still the task of the GPU in the laptop. The GPU creates the images for the screens and sends that information as a digital data stream to the dock, where it's decoded by the dock hardware into DisplayPort or HDMI compatible data streams for the connected monitors. Here's a link to a teardown of the dock, with some pretty block diagrams of how it all goes together.

Performance will be limited by the speed of the GPU - how fast it can paint all the pixels needed for the multiple displays (including the laptop screen if you use that as well as the two monitors), and the speed of the connection to the dock and bandwidth within dock itself - it needs to transport and decode all that data for the two monitors fast enough to give you an acceptable refresh rate. The laptop is new, has Thunderbolt 4 which the dock supports, and a quick look at the specs suggests you shouldn't really have any issues running 2 x QHD displays if it's mainly for work use, spreadsheet wrangling, video calls and so on.

In my previous post about that customer with the dual 4K screens, I had a 10th gen Intel laptop connected to their dock via USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 interface which only supports 5Gbps, so that was probably why it struggled with the two 4K displays. I've just looked up my laptop's specs and see that it has a second USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 / Thunderbolt 3 port with 10Gbps bandwidth. Using that port instead would have helped.
 
Nambra said:
The dock does provide the ports to connect to monitors, but what gets displayed is still the task of the GPU in the laptop. The GPU creates the images for the screens and sends that information as a digital data stream to the dock, where it's decoded by the dock hardware into DisplayPort or HDMI compatible data streams for the connected monitors. Here's a link to a teardown of the dock, with some pretty block diagrams of how it all goes together.

Performance will be limited by the speed of the GPU - how fast it can paint all the pixels needed for the multiple displays (including the laptop screen if you use that as well as the two monitors), and the speed of the connection to the dock and bandwidth within dock itself - it needs to transport and decode all that data for the two monitors fast enough to give you an acceptable refresh rate. The laptop is new, has Thunderbolt 4 which the dock supports, and a quick look at the specs suggests you shouldn't really have any issues running 2 x QHD displays if it's mainly for work use, spreadsheet wrangling, video calls and so on.

In my previous post about that customer with the dual 4K screens, I had a 10th gen Intel laptop connected to their dock via USB-C 3.2 Gen 1 interface which only supports 5Gbps, so that was probably why it struggled with the two 4K displays. I've just looked up my laptop's specs and see that it has a second USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 / Thunderbolt 3 port with 10Gbps bandwidth. Using that port instead would have helped.
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Brilliant - thanks kindly :) And thankfully Hobart has an MSY store so I won’t get bent over on prices.
 
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