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27" asus monitor for everyday computer use?
SNAAKE:
good idea..bad idea? anyone use something like this?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236080
this one is on sale.
using a 22" samsung but its 1680x1050. could use a FULL HD monitor right about now.
SavannahLion:
Depends on what you consider "every day use". For me, every day use generally consists of writing code, reading documentation related to that code, watching video lessons and crazy amounts of porn*. I don't play games very much on my PC in this day and age unless it's for testing (MAME) or a few rounds of retro gaming. And I most certainly don't watch movies on my monitor unless I'm working with it. Only reason I would go bigger screen is to pack more information ie code or documents, into the screen real estate. I wouldn't up it for the porn because most of those people are pretty skanky and you wouldn't want to be turned off by giant images of someone's sores.
*Not really. I don't have time for porn and I'd rather get my knocks off with my wife anyways.
SNAAKE:
talking about web surfing, youtube, photoshop, making useless flash stuff, video production, etc etc..
I am just worried about a 27" monitor having a blurry screen or something. but there is no signal processing. it says 1080p native resolution. as long as I set my video card to that should work. still doing my research.
whammoed:
You can get that same resolution on smaller monitors. I've heard for PC use, the 27" 1080p doesn't look so great. Bigger pixels relatively speaking. Might be better off getting the 24" and saving a few bucks. I have neither, just passing on what I've read.
MonMotha:
Above 25" or so, I'd demand 2560x1600 (WQSVGA) or similar for day-to-day computer monitor applications, but then I find anything less than about 130DPI objectionable on an LCD. I'm currently rocking a 15.4" 1920x1200 (WUXGA) - that's about 150DPI!
Note that 27" diagonal at 2560x1600 (16:10 aspect) is ~111DPI, which is barely above "Windows standard" from old school blurry CRT days of 96DPI, and this is the highest resolution you're likely to find.
27" diagonal at "Full HD" 1920x1080 (16:9 aspect) is only ~82DPI, which is actually less than "Windows standard", so things would appear comparatively grainy and blocky (or just bigger) to the old reference.
Gotta remember, television resolution has always been fairly low compared to computer monitor uses. There's actually an xkcd strip about this: http://xkcd.com/732/
A 27" 16:9 is probably too big (due to the width) for my taste in a PC monitor, anyway, but you may be fine with it, especially if you just want everything to be "big". I find things that wide tend to exceed my physical field of view at normal monitor viewing distances, which causes me to have to shift my eyes a lot or (worse) pan my head just to use the monitor.
A 27" 16:10 might be OK (though again I'd want very high res at that point since the pixels start getting too big), but I suspect I'd still personally find it too wide. I have some 24" 16:10 CRTs that seem to be about the biggest I'd normally want (I use them for games and such, but I don't like them as much for office/work use).
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