Ultra wide monitor
A couple of months (after at least half a year of thinking) I finally decided
to do it. I decided to buy a Ultra wide screen for my home office. The one I
had been looking at for months is the Samsung Odyssey G9 C49G95. It happens
to be the opposite of cheap. Part of the triggering factor was a conversation
on IRC in #nixos-chat where a person admitted that she had one of those. Then
the real trigger to buy it was to find it at 23% discount. It was a return
item to a store.
Here are some sketches l've made of how big and wide this monster really is.
Drawing in full resolution
It truly have been a boost in productivity, much more that I expected.
For a long time l've been of the opinion that the perfect size and resolution
of a desktop monitor is 27" at a QHD resolution. This gives me a size
of things that is easy for me to read without the need to scale my desktop.
A QHD resolution also gives 33% more space to use as a workspace (compared to
FHD). QFHD doesn't really work for me without scaling,
otherwise everything becomes too small. To make QFHD work would have to scale
it down to 1.5 to get about QHD. This can sometimes be hard to get it right
and look good. So a scaling of 2 is more natural. Then I lost my extra space
just to get better looking fonts.
Given time I've realized that I don't really need the extra 33% width that
QHD gives me over FHD. I have more use for the extra 33% height. It's even
rare that I need the full FHD width.
So why go ultra wide?
This ultra wide monitor has the size of two 27" QHD displays in one panel.
This gives me the insane resolution of 5120×1440. It still gives me the extra
33% height compared to FHD. Then I have the extra width without a bezel,
5120px / 3 = 1706px
, 1706px
is slightly less than the width of FHD. This
means the width is plenty enough to run three applications side by side
without feeling cramped. Try to do that on 2 separate QHD monitors.
This makes this single monitor be as useful as three QHD monitors side by
side - but in one display. Despite being huge, it saves space.
This monitor: 10/10 - would pay full price.
Date: 2021-02-15 Mon 21:15
Author: Elis Hirwing <elis@hirwing.se>