| I looked at the Samsung 34" model quite carefully about a month ago, but bought three U28E590D 28" 4K screens instead. I'm not done with this but will be driving them with an MBP when Apple finally gets the Skylake upgrade done, and a Surface Pro. I spend 99% of the time writing code in Idea. It has to be directly in front of me, and I very frequently glance at other windows to either side. I decided against the 34" because I could not really figure out how to make the wide screen work out for me: - One of those is not enough screen to put the browsers and terminal windows on either side of the IDE - Two screens always gives me a neckache because of turning from the screen in front to either left or right but not the other... - Putting a 34" in the center of three screens moves the edges of the side screens really far out, which I think would be odd for my field of vision, force me to turn my neck too far, and cost unnecessary desk space - I have this problem already to some degree with the three smaller screens - I don't really feel like I have time to hassle with unexpected problems that pop up because of using a non-standard resolution, I want mainstream and simple so I can focus on my stuff; I think this is relevant both to driving the display, eg. at the OS, graphics card, drivers level, and also at the application level because it is unlikely that any UI will be designed with the wide screen in mind - I like to run full screen, so I don't have to futz with border dragging etc. In the end, I decided that 34" is actually not enough - I'd want a screen like this in the 50-60" range, but pixels above eye level also cause neckache, so this would be a resolution of something like 10000x2160. I'd also want better window manager support for getting the right window placements without having to that myself every time. I saw a backlit projector-driven screen like that in a research lab 15 years ago - perhaps we can actually buy one in another 10-15 years? I also did think that the 34" might be really great if I either spent all of time in a single full screen application without the side windows, or if I went back to coding in vim and arranged everything into a smaller area - which I don't want to do, but lots of folks prefer that. |
2 screens is hard because of not centering well... but 3 giant screens is overkill.. so for now at least, stuck with 2 giants, and I just mostly ignore 1 of them (emails and chats, not my main stuff)