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by hyakosm 1545 days ago
I remember when bigger monitors had higher resolution. 15 inch monitors were 1024x768, 17 inch were typically 1280x1024 and some 20 inch monitors 1600x1200. Now nearly every panel from 13 inch to 32 inch are "4K" UHD with the exception of 24 inch monitors stuck at 1920x1080, it's sad because true HiDPI options (> 200 dpi) are extremely limited: two Apple screens, two LG screens and one Dell 8K 32 inch screen for PCs.
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jefftk 1545 days ago
> nearly every panel from 13 inch to 32 inch are "4K" UHD with the exception of 24 inch monitors stuck at 1920x1080

I use a Dell Ultrasharp 27" [1] which is 2560x1440. I think this is pretty common for 27" monitors? I find that this is great at 1x resolution.

[1] https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-ultrasharp-27-moni...

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colechristensen 1545 days ago
This isn't really the case.

Monitors tend to have three categories, 1080 rows, 1440 rows, and 4k columns (which is actually 3840 x 2160)

Shopping for monitors will find a fair balance of each and a few outliers. Vertical lines reported for 1080 and 1440 because there are quite a few aspect ratio options which will have varying numbers of pixel columns.

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