OMG Big Monitor

[tomalmy]

Depends on your eyesight. I’ve got a 5K 27" (iMac) next to a 4K 27" LG and I can’t tell the difference.

[jr5]

@rlivingston

I certainly have not noticed this. Why would that be? Do you see this distortion when you are just looking at one monitor removed from the other?

With my setup, a window cannot span two monitors. Did you have some other setting that permitted this?

Legit question. I never spanned two monitors with a window. Here’s what it looked like. The yellow boxes are the screen areas that didn’t feel comfortable to read due to the angles, which caused me to abandon this configuration:

My current setup is a MPB 16 with 27" 4K external monitor. It doesn’t have the same issue of steep viewing angles, but I would prefer something with more real estate. It seems like I would have the same angle problem looking at the outer edges of a flat, 32" monitor, and that a curved monitor would solve the issue. But I’ve never used one so I don’t know for sure.

[tomalmy]

It seems to me there are two possible reasons to have a curved monitor:

1. To be immersed in a scene, such as games and movies. Thinking the original curved screen Cinarama Cinerama - Wikipedia.
2. To have an equal distance from eye to display across the entire screen to have uniform focus.

1 seems to be a very valid use case, but I don’t think is the issue in this thread. I’m unsure about 2 since I never tried an ultra-wide instead of multiple displays. I find multiple displays work fine as long as windows aren’t bridging the gap (System Settings → Desktop & Dock → Displays have separate Spaces → ON).

[MitchWagner]

@adamashlock

WHAAAAAAATTTTT??? How could you even sleep with that lingering alone in its box

I let it sleep overnight in a box with a hot water bottle and ticking alarm clock so it would not get lonesome.

[tomalmy]

Got an email today pointing to this Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1915956036/duoflex-worlds-first-4k-dual-screen-monitor?ref=esc0ht&IGadgets_Hub

It’s a dual stacked monitor with 2 27" or 24" up to 4k panels. 16:18 aspect ratio when combined. Can’t recommend it (Kickstarters being risky), but interesting to see since we are talking big monitors here.

[Vincent_Ardern]

LG’s Dual Up is heading in this direction. If the concept really has legs I’m sure LG will continue it

[MitchWagner]

Related:

Please share tips for managing windows on an ultrawide computer display

I recently upgraded from a 27" 14-year-old Apple Cinema Display to a 34" Dell ultrawide. Until now, I’ve always run a simple windowing setup: Most of the time, I’m using one app, and it’s maximized to fill the whole screen. When I want to switch apps, I Cmd-Tab between them (that’s equivalent to Alt-Tab on Windows). Often, I use two apps, and I tile them side by side when I do. But that strategy is not going to work for me on a 34" display because the individual app becomes too big to take in.…

[ciaran]

I recently upgraded from a 32" Dell 4K to the 32" Dell 6K (currently about $1850 on amazon) and I can confirm that the improvement is immense, at least for a lawyer like me who is staring at text all day.

[MitchWagner]

I’ve been using my 32" Dell (4K I guess) for nearly a week now and I love it.

And I just tried Stage Manager, which I hated on the old 27" 14-year-old Apple Cinema Display, and I think I love that too. I like a clean desktop (virtually. In real life too but I will never achieve it in real life.)

[arievanboxel]

If I go sitting further back it is as if I use a smaller monitor .

[arievanboxel]

Sorry . You did kind of.