Really wish we had options for 16:10 and 4:3 monitors in 4k-8k resolutions in 2024. Personally, I think the ultimate monitor is somewhere around 36” wide with a ~1.6x “golden ratio” (aka 16:10) so around 22-24” tall (for reference, a 42” 16:9 TV is about 36.6Wx20.6H; 16x10 would be 35.6Wx22.3H; 4:3 would be 33.6Wx25.2H). Right now I’ve got a 55” LG G1 OLED and it’s nice at 4K120hz, but ideally it’d be 8K120hz and a little smaller in width. It seems like it wouldn’t be too terribly hard to make such a panel using an 8K 55” screen as a starting point, then just omit a few inches of width. Ooh, and please make it a 10-bit (or 12 but there I’m really dreaming) 4:4:4 120hz native panel.
Upon returning to the office for a few days a couple of months back, I noticed that my desk had been moved and I was given a standard setup with a 21:9 curved ultra wide 60hz Samsung. I HATE it. I have no idea what kind of person thinks these are superior. It can’t open two A4-size PDFs next to each other, and with macOS menu bar and dock (even auto-hide), toolbars in IDEs, terminals, and browsers took up far too much of the screen. Add to that the tendency of most websites these days to add their own pointless toolbars and cookie warnings and subscribe junk and again I just don’t see who would enjoy this for any type of work or gaming. I’ve tried dual portrait, I’ve tried quad, I’ve tried triple-wide with 1920x1200 16:10s as my “curved” setup way back in the late 2000s, and I still think that one single large high-res high-quality FLAT monitor is the way to go, hence my current LG setup. Everything else feels like it’s missing a piece. Multiple monitors just means bezels in your view and even though support is tons better now than it was a dozen years ago, toolbars and OS trays / docks still need some helper software to work really well across multiple monitors, especially where n>2.
Upon returning to the office for a few days a couple of months back, I noticed that my desk had been moved and I was given a standard setup with a 21:9 curved ultra wide 60hz Samsung. I HATE it. I have no idea what kind of person thinks these are superior. It can’t open two A4-size PDFs next to each other, and with macOS menu bar and dock (even auto-hide), toolbars in IDEs, terminals, and browsers took up far too much of the screen. Add to that the tendency of most websites these days to add their own pointless toolbars and cookie warnings and subscribe junk and again I just don’t see who would enjoy this for any type of work or gaming. I’ve tried dual portrait, I’ve tried quad, I’ve tried triple-wide with 1920x1200 16:10s as my “curved” setup way back in the late 2000s, and I still think that one single large high-res high-quality FLAT monitor is the way to go, hence my current LG setup. Everything else feels like it’s missing a piece. Multiple monitors just means bezels in your view and even though support is tons better now than it was a dozen years ago, toolbars and OS trays / docks still need some helper software to work really well across multiple monitors, especially where n>2.