What size of monitor do you use?

Legacy_user

Currently using a 19 inch squarish monitor which needs upgrading badly.

Thinking of getting a 24" but does this size feel too big?

SteveJH200

Try one of the Ben Q 22" LED monitors - Excellent value for money - around £100.

flappy_mcwarbucks

laptop is 17" widescreen. the desktop is a 24" wide screen HD Monitor

The bigger monitor is nice when i am working, and it's also good for the movies. It goes without saying that the bigger the monitor, the higher the resolution, and the more stuff you can put on your desktop

DCFC79

Currently using a 17" targa from lidl, its been fine, cost was about £80 whe bought over 3 years ago, it went faulty with about 2 months left on the 3 year Guarantee and targa swapped it for another for free at they're enxpense, might be a new 1 but cant see any evidence of being second hand. Also use a 19 i think it is and its guite gfood for the price i paid. Depends how far from screen your sat,

fwor

berbastrike wrote: »

Thinking of getting a 24" but does this size feel too big?

That depends how far away from it you can get and still work comfortably at your desk.

I've got a 22" widescreen and it's just about the largest I could cope with at 1-1.5m away - anything bigger and watching fullscreen video on it is hard on the eyes.

I've also found that best value for money at the moment comes from high resolution 4:3 (i.e. not widescreen) monitors, firstly because they are no longer in fashion (hence cheaper) and secondly because you get more usable screen area than the equivalent diagonal-size widescreen monitor.

stilltheone

berbastrike wrote: »

Currently using a 19 inch squarish monitor which needs upgrading badly.

Thinking of getting a 24" but does this size feel too big?

24" is the smallest that you should consider. Otherwise the screen will look squashed in comparison to your old one.

The screen height of an old style 19" screen is around 32cm. Of an 24" screen, around 30cms.

So if you don't want to lose screen height, get a 24" at a minimum.

Mine is a BenQ G2420HDBL 24-inch Widescreen LED Back-Light Monitor

Upgraded from an old style 17" screen. It's just about right.

bengalknights

Currently using a SM2333HD syncmaster from samsung but once it goes will hopefully upgrade it to a 24" as the bigger sizes do tend to look better in terms of displaying everything and in terms of gaming the bigger the better.

Naf

Laptop is 17", desktop has 32" LCD TV, and 19" CRT as secondary.
Something as big as the LCD TV only works if, as above, you have the space to sit back.
I'm currently considering http://www.ebuyer.com/256308-aoc-e2239fwt-wled-lcd-21-5-hdmi-touch-screen-monitor-e2239fwt though...

Azrael_1701

I use three 24" glass monitors, Packard Bell 242DX, cant recomend them enough!

esuhl

I upgraded from a 17" CRT to a 24" widescreen a few years ago, and my first thought was "damn - I thought it'd be bigger"! A 28" would be perfect I think (even though I only sit 70cm away), so long as the resolution was high enough.

Anyway, I have the BenQ G2420HDBL (a 24" LED-lit LCD panel) and for about £160 (I think) I'm really pleased with it. It's very sharp and has eliminated eyestrain, but I don't think it's ideal for colour accuracy...

John_Gray

Nobody seems to have mention the screen resolution. Since almost all decent-sized monitors are so-called HD widescreen, 1920x1080, all you are getting with monitors larger than about 22" diagonal is bigger pixels!

I like my BenQ G2222HDL, but it's (gasp!) nearly 18 months old...l