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Which monitor you recommend? (coding for hours use)
DeadlyChemist
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do you have any recommendations to stare at 9-13h a day for the next 5 to 10 years?
im thinking 4k, color accurate, matte with eyecare, preferably 75 or more hz... just something that's pleasent to look at
dont need 0.1µs input latency and 1KHz refresh rate...
im looking at viewsonic, but curious to hear what you guys think
dont need usb c either, hdmi/dp is fine
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I find 27"-28" 4k to be the best for coding (high pixel per inch). And now monitors of this range are cheaper than ever.
If you have anti blue light glasses or something similar on your glasses, I don't think eye care will make a huge difference but I might be wrong.
What you have to watch out for is flickering; some monitors do have flickering depending on light scenarios, technologies, dark content, and more. And this is not good for eye straightness. There is a flicker-free certification for monitors also.
You have a lot of choices but I only know gaming/creative monitors. Most monitor reviewers are only for gaming/creative display, and some like chimolog.co (japanese) also test flicker free for these monitor.
Previously I had a Samsung U28D590D 4k 28" 60hz TN panel for 11 years, and it was good enough I could stare at it for long hours. I migrated recently to a tcl 27r83u that i bought on sale for an all-purpose flicker-free monitor (gaming, HDR movie, coding, ...)
EDIT: "eyecare" Is now not only blue light but also flickering, though still some checks are needed because some can claim eyecare but they only do blue light control. Depends on certification.
Best monitor 2025 for coding, movies, family activities, and all of your passions.
$2000 super cheap.
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cant live without syntax highlighting/colored braces/colored indents
plus some of my work actually requires looking at colors for status
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I've had the best experiences with 25" to 27" Dell UltraSharp monitors for text related stuff like coding.
thanks, will consider, need 32 inches but they surely got that as well
thanks
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I’m sorry but this sounds like a disaster. You’ll need glasses quickly and they’ll get thicker if you stare at a 4K screen up close that long.
Try blue light blocking and other techs for your health. That’s all.
Does Matte with eye care address this? Never heard of it so asking. Maybe this solves the issue.
I have a 27" 1440p LG UltraGear OLED as my main monitor and a Dell Ultrasharp 24" 1440p IPS as my second monitor. I look at my screens on and off all day and night.. I don't recommend getting anything larger than 27". I tried a 32" 4k and a 27" 4k and I didn't like them so I settled on the 27" 1440p. The Dell Ultrasharp I've had for like 7 years but my main 27" LG is 2-3 years old. I previously had a Viewsonic 27" 1440p IPS and it was great. Viewsonic makes good displays, but my Dell ultrasharp is higher quality albeit lower refresh rate. The LG OLED is great though but obviously expensive.
It depends on how far you are from your monitors though. I sit like 20-25 inches away from my screens. I don't use any of the fancy eye care settings. No yellow hue/tint. I've always ran my monitors at like 0% brightness though if it's an IPS display. The OLED gets too dark though so it's like 40% brightness, any lower and the colors/gradients get weird.
I really enjoy programming with a 34 inch monitor.
You can comfortably fit an IDE with two files open.
I have a 27 inch vertical monitor on the side for Microsoft Teams + Spotify.
Eizo Nanao.... also Dell's... but spec's are important
Most important: don't go for a 16:9 one, but a) look out for 16:10 and b) pivot and ergonomic functions.
E.g. I work with two Dell (UHD?) 16:10 and I am happy with those. If I would go for a new one I would have a look at the Dell Pro 16:10.
I would not go for LG, Samsung or all those gaming- or video-crap monitors.
Neither for 27'', 24 is fine.
Had been using Eizo before I moved to Dell and Dell lives up to those Eizo models that cost way more.
(and you can save even more while going refurbished, lots of good company returns (some exchange their hardware every two or four years) end up on that market if you look for the professional monitors by Dell etc)
i use a simple alienware
I have an Asus ProArt Display 27 inch 4k (cheap) and 5k(a little expensive), very clear text and color accurate.
I'm using a 27" MSI.
Staring at a screen doesn't permanently alter your vision. At most you get eye strain, which can be prevented by upscaling. A 4k screen scaled at same size as a 1080p one will result in a lot less eye strain.
I wish you good luck. This is false. No real medical doctor would ever agree with what you said, but instead directly disagree.
Net net, strain will impact your vision overtime. The answer is in what you said.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8439964/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10319080/
I used a 32" display for many years, but currently use a 24" display. I think the 32" display wasn't ideal for me; too much eye & head movement to look at different areas of the screen. Perhaps worse for me, because I wear progressive lenses so vision is more focused to the center.
That monitor is most likely a scam.
However, if you got enough dough, Dasung is a welknown brand with colour monitor and high-ist refresh rate.
https://shop.dasung.com/
Not a scam, it protects the eyes against the perils of 🇧🇱🇺🇪 🇱🇮🇬🇭🇹.
I've been using a pair of ROG STRIX XG27WQ for my main work desktop for the last 3-4 years. Colours are pretty good, and I'm pretty happy with them, except that they seem to turn on from sleep at different speeds and Windows usually moves all the windows onto a single screen, which gets pretty annoying. But I normally solve that by using the second monitor just for Visual Studio and do everything else on the primary. If VS moves, it's easy to just drag a single window across.
A year ago bought a ultra-wide Lenovo R45w-30 to get the same screen space but on a single screen. Actually, I find it a bit more annoying that I can't just full-size windows any more because it's annoyingly large. I've not used this monitor enough (because it's on my secondary work machine) to know if I prefer it to the dual display option yet, so it's nice to divide the screen into approximate thirds and you can actually split the inputs (which I've not tried) and you can do more than just splitting in half.
Both monitors are supposedly intended to be gaming monitors, but I primarily use them for coding.
Eizo ColorEdge CS2740, 27"
I'm using IIyama monitors since years and still like them. And I'd stay away from anything related to gaming.
I just get whichever one that's on sale... (I used to only get used monitor every 2-3 years)
About 50€ for the big one, 40 for the smaller. Used. I don't know the manufacturing dates but I suspect ~2010. Both had a few iterations of replaced capacitors. Models similar to the smaller one have dropped to 30€ on Ebay now.
Why did you replace monitors every few years btw? If they stop functioning the fix is often 4€ of capacitors.