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Productivity monitor(s) under $700

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Hippogriff

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Hi,
I'm planning to upgrade my monitor setup I have at work and I was wondering what was my best option. I use them mainly for programming, so I don't really care about the quality of the image.

I currently have a 1200p monitor and a small 1024p that is dying

What I thought:

- buy another (or a couple) 1200p monitor. I can get a U2412M for $250 ($500 for two).

- buy a 1440p monitor. I can get a Asus PB278Q for $480.

- buy a widescreen monitor. An AOC is less than $400 and with less than $450 you get an Asus

- a 4k monitor for less than $650

I think my current desktop not support many monitors (HD3450 with just one dvi port), but I'm going to buy a new one soon.


Thanks!
 
My eyesight is quite bad. Do you think a 4K would be a bad choice even with scaling?

If your eyesight is good, get a 4k monitor.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9093161&CatId=5469

Even if your eyesight isn't the best, you can use Windows DPI to scale things and it should still provide more real estate then what you were looking at before.

If you don't care about 60hz, you can get this, everything should still be readable at 100% scaling.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Seiki-SE39U...5869999&icep_id=117&ipn=icep&afepn=5335869999
 
The 39" would be the best choice because the dpi is quite big.

I'm not sure how bad your eyesight is, 200% scaling on a 28" monitor would be equivalent to 1080p productivity wise. That's 78.68 ppi so everything would be quite big. At 150% it should be equivalent to 2880x1620 at 118 ppi. I could be wrong on the math.

I'm not sure what ppi you're comfortable with though.
 
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