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Curved monitor for software development

NorCalAthlete said:
I have the Bose QC35 II's and the MX Master for the mouse as well. Love the thumb scroll wheel for large spreadsheets.
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The horizontal one?
Haven't found a use for it for my workflow. Although with logitech app it was nice to map two side buttons to navigate forward/back in code.

Speaking of app. Got the flow feature working. Super nice. I can seamlessly switch between my main monitor/work laptop to my personal laptop.
 
UDRider said:
The horizontal one?
Haven't found a use for it for my workflow. Although with logitech app it was nice to map two side buttons to navigate forward/back in code.

Speaking of app. Got the flow feature working. Super nice. I can seamlessly switch between my main monitor/work laptop to my personal laptop.
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Project roadmaps / product backlogs / vendor roster sheets. Lots of horizontal scrolling in Excel. Also contact rosters for various teams - someone will hit me with an escalation and I gotta go hunt down someone to own it and join a war room or something.

For example : Rows are teams / tracks, columns are function / role. So one team might have columns for : Overall Program Manager, Solution PM, Dev PM, Analysts, Devs, QA, Test Lead, Offshore Dev, Offshore testing, Solution lead, architecht, BAT, data setup, business lead, 3-4 columns for different country leads, tax code POC, legal POC, etc...and I have about 30 different teams mapped out at the moment.
 
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I think I am the only one here who has one monitor vertically oriented as I find this way great for reading Word documents and web pages like BARF.
 
I have had teammates that did that. I guess it's nice if you need to look at a bunch of code, or spit it with code above and terminals or whatever below.
 
I've seen some coworkers with the 2nd monitor vertical. It's pretty neat but not for me. It's not even looking w my 3 monitors :teeth
 
m_asim said:
I think I am the only one here who has one monitor vertically oriented as I find this way great for reading Word documents and web pages like BARF.
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I have 1 vertical and 2 horizontal. Vert for web pages / discord / launchers / etc, 1 main horizontal for gaming / other browsing, 1 secondary for work.
 
I don't know if it's the USB-C connection, or is it the old monitors, or the DVI/Displayport converters--but yeah switching/synching displays is pretty bad.

Just spent tens of minutes trying to re-display stuff on two monitors after I "docked" the laptop to a Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 dock. :wtf

apropos do you know that even "dock"s have firmware updates nowadays?? :wtf :x

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then again maybe I shouldn't have moved the laptop and used it as a laptop. :rolleyes... do people with 3 displays ever do that? ;)
 
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AbsolutEnduser said:
I don't know if it's the USB-C connection, or is it old monitors, or DVI /Displayport converter---but yeah switching /synching displays is pretty bad.

Just spend tens of minutes trying to re-display stuff on two monitors after I "docked" the laptop to a Thunderbolt 3 Gen 2 dock. :wtf

apropos do you know that even "dock"s have firmware updates nowadays?? :wtf :x

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then again maybe I shouldn't have moved the laptop and used it as a laptop. :rolleyes... do people with 3 displays ever do that? ;)
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I have the Lenovo thunderbolt gen 2 dock for my 3rd gen X1 Yoga. Two monitors w/ displayport, the 3rd with a hdmi->usbc to the front of the dock. The monitors sync just fine 99% of the time. However after I updated the dock firmware a few weeks ago, my laptop will power on by itself if I leave it connected to the dock :wtf. Google'd the heck out of it and nothing worked, so I just disconnect the cable from my laptop to the dock each evening.
 
My Lenovo dock definitely does not power by itself, but I suspect yours is caused by a different device which I may not have.

However my dock-firmware upgrade caused the wi-mouse connector not to work sometimes (before it was okay.) However,.. without the upgrade, the STEREO output wasn't working. :laughing Like AT ALL.

yeah exactly---I forgot to say above--after unplugging monitors, the problem (dual monitors display correctly) was actually fixed by.. unplugging the main USB-C to-from laptop :facepalm


Coupled with issues having in-car--USB C wonky to display;
or at home--USB C wonky to give full power to cellphone..
I'd say USB C leaves something to be desired. :thumbdown Maybe manufacturing tolerances make that damn ground shield not up to spec sometimes :(
 
I havent bought a Thunderbolt Hub because of all the reviews that say theres too much re-plugging to get it to display anything. I dont need another USB-C port THAT bad and can live with my terrible cable management.

Turning one of my monitors vertical was a game changer for me. Im a software dev, so no one should be surprised.
 
stangmx13 said:
I havent bought a Thunderbolt Hub because of all the reviews that say theres too much re-plugging to get it to display anything. I dont need another USB-C port THAT bad and can live with my terrible cable management.

Turning one of my monitors vertical was a game changer for me. Im a software dev, so no one should be surprised.
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I am surprised. :x :laughing
 
So after about a year of the triple monitor setup...now I'm looking at the ultrawides.

Gaming ultrawides I'm considering (144hz or more; 1ms response time; but no USB-C):


Non-gaming ultrawides I'm considering (USB-C, 60hz-100hz, 5ms response time, no G-sync):

 
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Here is my take on some things I wish I knew before I bought it list.

My monitor has a little joystick-like thing for function control. I wish it was more like my old Dells and had buttons to press for different functions.

PiP would be great I have a few computers I run off one monitor.

No auto search for input. If I reboot a PC it will switch to that input or change from the one I am working on.
 
I have a Roku TV 42" Sharp I got a year ago from Best Buy for $270. Took a month to get used to the large screen size, like using bifocals, you get used to it. 4k, set the TV setting to 'computer' for the HDMI input and then the PQ (picture quality settings) are removed so the monitor color settings are more neutral.

Best $270 I ever invested in a monitor. Any Roku TV has this 'computer' setting. It should display 60fps, just now only 30fps as I'm a cheapskate and didn't get a better HDMI chip converter. But 30fps works fine, even for scrolling large computer program files in VSC.
 
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ksandvik said:
I have a Roku TV 42" Sharp I got a year ago from Best Buy for $270. Took a month to get used to the large screen size, like using bifocals, you get used to it. 4k, set the TV setting to 'computer' for the HDMI input and then the PQ (picture quality settings) are removed so the monitor color settings are more neutral.

Best $270 I ever invested in a monitor. Any Roku TV has this 'computer' setting. It should display 60fps, just now only 30fps as I'm a cheapskate and didn't get a better HDMI chip converter. But 30fps works fine, even for scrolling large computer program files in VSC.
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I do something similar. 4K TV's are a good solution.

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Alex, give us an update! Surely you've logged a couple months worth of hours working on your new monitor (also, which LG model did you get btw?).
 
NorCalAthlete said:
Alex, give us an update! Surely you've logged a couple months worth of hours working on your new monitor (also, which LG model did you get btw?).
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I got this one:
https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-38wn75c-b-ultrawide-monitor

I really like it. Glad I didn't get 42 ultra wide. There is enough real estate to have two separate windows open side by side. For example VSC on one side, and iTerm2 on the other side. I use Magnet on my mbp to arrange windows. Whenever we get back in to office I'll try to see I can get one of these in the there. :laughing

With 38inch ultra wide 3840 x 1600 is minimum I would go for.

One small nit is that maybe if it could curve a bit more, and higher resolution would be nice. That's about it.
 
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Interesting that you got the 3840 x 1600 and still want higher res - most of the ultrawides are only 1440, the 4k ones are $$$$.
 
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