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Currently use a 2 x 24" monitor configuration. Now looking to downsize to one. Thinking a 30" may be a suitable alternative? John Lewis has a selection or 30" Samsung monitors that are very reasonably priced.
Can anyone contribute any ideas? I really want to keep the spend £300 or below.
TIA.
What resolution are your current monitors and what are you hoping for in terms of improvement?
If I were buying a new monitor I would absolutely want a USB C model which can power a laptop, drive a screen and allow you to connect peripherals to the monitor rather than having to plug them into your computer.
Other than that a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels would seem to be good for a display of that size.
Having done the same thing the only regret I have is that I didn’t get a curved one. I suspect that your 2 monitors are slightly angled in making it easier to see both. If you get an ultrawide that’s flat you loose this and personally I found it made looking round the screen much more awkward. Next one will definitely be a curved one
I was just about to post the same thing, buying again id buy curved, although for me one large extra wide screen is preferable to two smaller screens
I’ve a curved 32” at work and a flat 30” at home. Both Samsung. 32” is definitely better but can’t say I notice the curve as such.
Ditto. I've gone from 32 down to 30 as I'm tight and work wouldn't pay and I regret it
What are you doing with the old ones? 😁
I have this, it’s good. A little over budget but there are cheaper variants.
Go curved.
We've done this in a number of our offices.
Across my team we've got one or two who'd prefer the old set up, most are neutral and I am mostly in the one big monitor camp (but then I have traditionally done a lot of wide-screen spreadsheet stuff like financial models).
Where two is better is working on a report with multiple data sources on the other. Two monitors makes two half width source files more workable with a landscape main document for example.
if you actually use 2 screens.. ultrawide with powertoys installed and the desktop snap stuff enabled in it so it can optionally behave like 2x 4x3 monitors when needed
Samsung ultrawide curved was an absolute game changer. I’d replace mine in an instant if it failed. We now have them at work on site. Another office has double monitors. Never again!
32” ultra wide here replacing a pair of large (don’t remember the specifics) standard ones. So much more useful for teams and office duties
mine is flat. Maybe if your desk dictates you have to sit really close to the screen a curved one might be useful but in my case I’ve never felt “gosh this is too much effort I wish i could move my eyes fractionally less”
I’ve a curved 32” at work and a flat 30” at home. Both Samsung. 32” is definitely better but can’t say I notice the curve as such.
I was wrong - it's a Dell U3415W at work. 34" i'm using it for video editing at the moment, which it's good for. It's good for tiling documents too, but an annoying feature is that the ribbons collapse when you tile so they're less easy to use.
2 monitors here at home - a 27 and a 31
When i WFH - One connects to work, one connects to STW and the Beeb...
No intent of going to one large curved monitor - i've got about 4.5 foot of screen already
I use three screens. Laptop as a screen to the right, usually with teams open. 24" screen in front for normal working, 22" screen in on my left for secondary working.
I think about upgrading every now and then but it's been working brilliantly for 5 years so no need to change at this stage. We have big widescreens in the office and I prefer separate screens - I find it makes presenting and reviewing easier.
(My screens sound tiny compared with many on here, but the three screen curve and run the entire width of my 140cm desk! Would love to see some pics)
I've played around with all sorts (even a 42" 4K TV as a monitor at one point), used plenty of setups at different jobs and settled on a single 34" ultrawide for home/WFH use. No bezel distraction, easy to snap windows to where I want in win11 these days, big without needing too much head movement. Fine for most games, actually good for racing games with a bit of extra peripheral vision.
If I need a second screen (like demoing something in a teams call), I just open my laptop screen and use that to share, while keeping everything else on the monitor.
