Monitor choice for developers - 32" UHD, or 27/32" QHD?

_kabal_ said:
A 32" 1080p monitor does not do this.
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Yea for you it may not for others it does the job just fine, we shipped out and install about 15 of them a little bit ago. Fact is I am rolling out the new desktops on Friday. You also miss the point I don't make the call the office does. if they said Intel was easier for them then that IS what I go with. I don't confront my clients I get them what they want.

But you get to think for the entire world right... My bad I just live here. If you actually go look at my other post I said I am working on 12 systems. That is because there are 3 systems that was tested. 1 was AMD and the other two was Intel. They wanted to test two CPUs the i5 vs i7. Why because businesses do their homework. just so you know.
 
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Happy Sloth said:
Yea for you it may not for others it does the job just fine, we shipped out and install about 15 of them a little bit ago. Fact is I am rolling out the new desktops on Friday. You also miss the point I don't make the call the office does. if they said Intel was easier for them then that IS what I go with. I don't confront my clients I get them what they want.

But you get to think for the entire world right... My bad I just live here. If you actually go look at my other post I said I am working on 12 systems. That is because there are 3 systems that was tested. 1 was AMD and the other two was Intel. They wanted to test two CPUs the i5 vs i7. Why because businesses do their homework. just so you know.
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if this size monitor is to big for you surely you can down scale a bit. It is still good quality product but at this point I digress.
 
Happy Sloth said:
if this size monitor is to big for you surely you can down scale a bit. It is still good quality product but at this point I digress.
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you are exposing your ignorance.

15" 1080p is an IDENTICAL workspace to a 55" 1080p.
the 55" is actually WORSE, as now you can see all the pixels.
1980x1080 pixels = 2138400 pixels no matter the diagonal size.


stop sprouting nonsense.
you are giving bad advice.
the OP was to improve productivity, which means being able to see/do more with the desk space available. Decreasing his desk space giving him EXACTLY THE SAME amount of pixels, when he is not gaming, is just DUMB....
 
Happy Sloth said:
Look a computer is a tool, it does a job. If you can spend 20min to 30min setting stuff up to get it going good for you. If a company does a rollout they want the minimum down time. Why? Because time is money. They don't care if it is AMD or Intel they don't care what brand the monitor is as long as it has good support and the majority of the office like the size they will implement them. They don't do custom computers because it is incredibly hard to support long term.

So I don't know who you are, I don't know your job title but if you don't know these basics you have no business giving advice. It is all about productivity, down time and cost. Getting the maximum out of every PC for as long as possible IS the goal. Sitting and fiddling with settings IS NOT ideal. Having the best fit for the job at hand IS a requirement and my customers made the call "Intel" in this case because they had both systems and tested them.

Again something you "should know", because before every rollout the systems undergo real world test. Not some gaming benchmark utility. Base on that data they make the call. Seriously basic stuff.

I personally also run an AMD and they do work. But it is not about how I feel about the brand that matters it is about what is ordered, what is demanded and what can be supported. So before you shoot your mouth off consider other people actually know what the hell they are doing and you clearly don't mange these things because if you did we wouldn't be having this discussion.

*mic drop*
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This is a thread about monitors

not about corporates buying PC's - OBVIOUSLY they are going to be buying prebuild systems that have on site support/warranties, DUH.

But the companies that need it 100% WILL be buying AMD processors, likely 5950X's or Threadrippers, because they offer vastly more cores and IPC, and time is money for these workloads.
Being able to render/do calculations minutes/hours faster 100's of times over, which equals 10's of thousands of ZAR has real world advantages over "having to fiddler with a setting a toddler could enable".

So again, your blanket recommendation is rubbish
 
Happy Sloth said:
I wouldn't go with a vertical monitor setup. Screens/monitors are very prone to get dead pixels in vertical mode.
Most laptops will not support multi-display
All my clients go for the ViewSonic VX3218-PC-MHD 32" Curved Monitors they are best in class at an affordable price of just under or over R6k "depending" for its size it is a good monitor.

VX3218-PC-MHD
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More dead pixels in vertical mode doesn't make sense. Any source or even reason why this might be?

I have never used a Laptop that doesn't support multiple displays. My current laptop does 2 x 4K + 1 x 1440p with some slight hoop jumping. My 2010 laptop also supported additional displays with both HDMI and VGA. My wife's 13" laptop, yup, it supports external displays.

As for 32" 1080p - I have no idea why anyone would want to use it for working on, unless you have terrible eyesight and don't have much money. It sounds terrible for productivity.
 
I'm a full stack developer & have been using a 40" 4K Philips monitor since 2015. I moved from UK & I got it cheap off eBay - it was about R9k. I also use a 24" HP (1920x1200) which also came from eBay. I use 125% scaling on the 40" to make the text legible. If the screen was bigger then I wouldn't need to scale.

If I had a 32" UHD then I expect I would need to increase the scaling. A 32" QHD would probably be better at that size & obviously I'd recommend a 40"+ UHD. Some people use TVs as monitors now & you can probably get a decent one for an OK price.

Luckily I've been working from home so can make use of big monitor. The extra screen real estate makes a big difference, so my productivity is much greater than say when I used the 2x 23" 1080p monitors that I used to have in the office.

It's a nightmare when there's load shedding & I have to work on my 15" laptop screen. There is hardly any space to type code in Visual Studio or VS Code.

The only thing to note is that if you have a laptop with a dock to run 2 screens, you'll need a dock that connects via Thunderbolt to support 4k @ 60hz. USB Type C is not enough. If you don't have this it will run at 30hz & this makes me feel ill. My previous work laptops didn't have Thunderbolt so I use to remote desktop to it using my home PC & I didn't noticed any performance issues. With RDP you can use all screens or just one, so you easily switch between two machines should you wish. Obviously you'll be using more electricity running a PC as well as a laptop.

I'd be interested to try a large 5k monitor (5120x2880) in the future if they make one that's say 50". I'm sure they'll be too expensive to buy though. In the mean time I wouldn't mind adding a 32" WQHD monitor to my setup.
 
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Took a chance on a 27" 4K.
Suddenly you're aware of how pixelated the 1080 screen next to it is, sies.
That said, you have to scale to be able to read and a lot of apps do not scale lekker.
 
kolaval said:
Took a chance on a 27" 4K.
Suddenly you're aware of how pixelated the 1080 screen next to it is, sies.
That said, you have to scale to be able to read and a lot of apps do not scale lekker.
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Which one did you get?
 
kolaval said:
Duno the model. Dell off carb.
Do you want to try it?

I'm now rather convinced that the best solution would be 2 x 27" @ 2560 x 1440 or a 5k ultrawide.
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The Dell's are rather good. I was looking at this but it's not exactly cheap.

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Apparently the 4k scaled looks good on a 27". Just would prefer a better refresh rate.
 
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_kabal_ said:
wonder if it can do chroma 4:4:4, might be needed for nice text.

I used a "budget" hisense 4K TV as a monitor, and it was "fine", but I found 55" too massive - was a lot happier when I moved to 32" 4K
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For the R15k it seems like a good deal. 32" 4k is around the same price. This also has 120hz, 1000+ nits and a decent sound system.
 
randomcat said:
For the R15k it seems like a good deal. 32" 4k is around the same price. This also has 120hz, 1000+ nits and a decent sound system.
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Yeah, it will probably be really nice to game/media on.

Depends on what you want it for I guess - for me, horrible as a productivity monitor
 
I have a Dell SE2416H and a Dell S2721HN. I want to run a dual monitor setup however my laptop only has one HDMI port.

Does anyone know where I can get a HDMI splitter that will allow me to extend my laptop’s display to both monitors?

The products that I’ve seen so far on Takealot only duplicate the source, according to the buyer reviews.
 
YeLo said:
I have a Dell SE2416H and a Dell S2721HN. I want to run a dual monitor setup however my laptop only has one HDMI port.

Does anyone know where I can get a HDMI splitter that will allow me to extend my laptop’s display to both monitors?

The products that I’ve seen so far on Takealot only duplicate the source, according to the buyer reviews.
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Does HDMI support multiple signals?
 
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