Is one 30 inch screen better than two smaller monitors?
In a word – no.
I have recently aquired a 30 inch HP LP-3065 monitor.
Before you ask ‘aquired’ means bought, rather than offloaded from the back of a van in the night.
Well, it is a nice monitor. The resolution is 2560 x 1600, which is, well, huge -more pixels than two 1600 x 1200 monitors
But two smaller screens are better for work purposes, I have come to decide – at least for software development.
Only that way can you maximise applications in each screen.
However, I can’t fit both my old Iiyama monitors on my desk (my wife has grabbed the majority of the real-estate in our flat).
There is no way to get them back other than sneak over and grab them when she is not looking, and I’d have no room to place them anyway.
In any case, I fear no amount of bribary would compensate her for the loss of these.
Games, on the other hand, are a different matter. Bioshock looks great on a 30 inch monitor.
Although the LP-3065 doesn’t do upscaling, the nvidia card does this automatically- and it still looks fine even at less than the native resolution.
So don’t let that put you off getting one, if you’re a gamer!
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July 10th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Just discovered ‘WinSplit revolution’ – software which lets you easily rearrange your app windows on a big screen, and split the screen left and right. This makes the big monitor much more practical, so the monster is officially back on my desk