Ontopic Random Computer-Electronics Thread

[OzSTEEZ]

Holy shit, it is. I thought you were being facetious. Why do that when you can get a 4K TV of the same size and get 1500 more vertical pixels

It's for taking up your peripheral vision. The extra vertical pixels would be outside the peripheral vision.

 

[gee]

One of our code guys runs two monitors side by side in portrait orientation.

Should hook him up with some of these ultrawide things so he can do ultra tall screens.

 

[Domon]

It's for taking up your peripheral vision. The extra vertical pixels would be outside the peripheral vision.

check this out

human vision has more than enough vertical fov to cover both the vert and the horizontal of something that size at 2ish feet away.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

check this out

human vision has more than enough vertical fov to cover both the vert and the horizontal of something that size at 2ish feet away.

I'm sure it's possible. But mostly you want something inside your optimum area that they depict in that graphic. I can easily catch things on the side of my peripheral vision better than on the top.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

One of our code guys runs two monitors side by side in portrait orientation.

Should hook him up with some of these ultrawide things so he can do ultra tall screens.

I used to do one monitor in portrait for console output. It didn't really help that much.

 

[Domon]

I'm speaking from experience, I've got a 43-inch 4K as a main screen now. All of it fits within my vision, at about 2 feet away

 

[gee]

2 feet from a 43 inch screen would probably give me a migraine, like sitting in the couple front rows of a movie.

 

[Duke]

Nobody in their right mind is going to be putting a single web page cross that whole screen

 

[OzSTEEZ]

I'm speaking from experience, I've got a 43-inch 4K as a main screen now. All of it fits within my vision, at about 2 feet away

I'm sure it fits in your field of view. It's just that vertical isn't as rewarding. I'm not sure how to say the right words here. It's just better to go wide than big.

Beside the peripheral vision aspect. 4k would take twice the processing power.

 

[Amstel]

One of our code guys runs two monitors side by side in portrait orientation.

Should hook him up with some of these ultrawide things so he can do ultra tall screens.

I'm still working with one 25"? 27"? screen, but keep tossing around the idea of getting a 2nd one to do both in portrait mode. 99% of my work is legal documents and they're a lot easier to view & work with in portrait mode.

 

[wetwillie]

I'm sure it fits in your field of view. It's just that vertical isn't as rewarding. I'm not sure how to say the right words here. It's just better to go wide than big.

Beside the peripheral vision aspect. 4k would take twice the processing power.

Vertical can wear your neck out in some situations with all the up/down. I like 2 monitors horizontally for graphics work.

 

[wetwillie]

I'm still working with one 25"? 27"? screen, but keep tossing around the idea of getting a 2nd one to do both in portrait mode. 99% of my work is legal documents and they're a lot easier to view & work with in portrait mode.

Amstel - get one you can rotate. I just got an HP E202 (20", $158) but it rotates and slides up/down easily on the stand and using ctrl-alt-up or ctrl-alt-left arrow it rotates the display back/forth. Great for medical and legal docs.

 

[Amstel]

Amstel - get one you can rotate. I just got an HP E202 (20", $158) but it rotates and slides up/down easily on the stand and using ctrl-alt-up or ctrl-alt-left arrow it rotates the display back/forth. Great for medical and legal docs.

I can do that now, but when I've got docs open, most of the time I have more than one open & need them side by side.

 

[wetwillie]

I can do that now, but when I've got docs open, most of the time I have more than one open & need them side by side.

Fine, get two and rotate them both.

 

[fly]

I'm still working with one 25"? 27"? screen, but keep tossing around the idea of getting a 2nd one to do both in portrait mode. 99% of my work is legal documents and they're a lot easier to view & work with in portrait mode.

Two 'smaller' monitors are soooo much better than one large.

 

[Jehannum]

Two 'smaller' monitors are soooo much better than one large.

One 4K 27" is about at the limit of the distance my eyes can travel before my attention span wanes.

 

[Valve1138]

I've still got a "2k" monitor for my gaming rig.

I should try it on my 4k 55" office tv for shits and giggles.

 

[Valve1138]

Plugged my 4k TV into my gaming rig.

W10 defaults it to scaling everything not he screen up to 300%.

Dialed it down to 125% and it's pretty useable. '

I'll have to try out a game on it when I have time.

 

[OzSTEEZ]

I posted a picture of my work monitors in the pic thread (can't copy it here). The main screen is a 34" Samsung ultra wide (3440x1440) and the other monitor is a 24" 1080p monitor.

Having the ultra wide monitor is good for a few things like database views, but mostly I have it split 50/50 with code on the left and output on the right.

 

[Valve1138]

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