[Closed] 32" monitor - yes or no?

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32" diagonal is just two inches in each direction wider than 28", so that's fairly easy to gauge.

Depends what you are using it for. For me, working with a lot of spreadsheets, data and documents I’d rather have a super wide monitor rather than just a bigger one. It’s the height of a big monitor that’s the issue, it might be a bit awkward in that respect.

32″ diagonal is just two inches in each direction wider than 28″, so that’s fairly easy to gauge.

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Super wide's not an option.

Super wide’s not an option.

I just use a pair of identical 24" side by side.

But is 32″ just too massive on a fairly small desk?

How small is your desk? Doesn't look too big on mine

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You’ve gotta go with a 21:9 ultra wide aspect ratio. Makes a huge difference.

I have a 34” curved one (cheap from Amazon) and it’s been life changing.

How long are your arms?

If you're using it for general office work then 32 is a good size, or an ultra wide as you don't really need to worry about response times or high refresh rates.

For gaming 27" 1440p is probably the sweet spot as high spec monitors any larger cost an absolute fortune.

Equally, anything much bigger than 32" is a bit too big as you'll be moving your head around to look at different parts of the screen which is kinds counter productive.

Super wide’s not an option.

I just use a pair of identical 24″ side by side.

Two side by side is not an option for the same reason as ultrawide isn't!

Just to add, my 'office' machine is a 14" laptop with an old 1080p 27" monitor and I'd quite like a higher resolution 32" to replace it, but there's nowt wrong with it so can't really justify replacing it.

I'm on a 4K 32" for general use. Very happy with it, especially as it was Costco cheap at £200ish.

I run a 32" and 40" next to each other at home and I think its a 50" at work - more screen space is great when you have multiple docs open, so I'd go big.

32" is a good size. Yes, go for it.

I am also in the market for a similar size monitor for my PC but my budget is tight at max £200 only.

I am using Samsung 32" TV monitor as my PC monitor now but the pixel is not that good as it is a TV.

I recently got a 34" Samsung Ultrawide. Was £280 delivered. It's really good, but even getting it quite far back on the desk, I find I'm scanning my head side to side like Arnie in Terminator 1 when he's hunting Kyle Reese and Sarah Connor, so if I was buying again I would probably pay for a curved one.

I suppose you don't have tomput the thing you're looking at most in the corners of the screen, do you...

Actually, on a big screen like that a lot of menus etc are down the sides and the main content is in the middle so you are going left and right a lot

That’s true if you have a single app full screen, but with stuff like Word or smaller spreadsheets etc, you can sit a window the size of a 22” monitor in the middle and maybe have smaller windows showing emails and task lists etc around the sides.

I find 22 inches is good, 24 better, 28 is far too big. My peripheral vision isn’t good enough and I find that I can’t focus on a really big screen. You end up tilting your head up and down to accommodate documents. All about the solid angle. Wide is probably good but taller does not work for me. Writing this in front of a 208” screen but I’m sat 4m away.

I’ve used a 40” 4K TV as a monitor for years. It’s great. No, you can’t see it all at once without moving your head but then you never need to maximise anything either. I still use 125% scaling at that size too.

I don't understand why some people go for ultrawide instead of an overall bigger screen? For me personally the extra vertical space is just as useful/important as the extra horizontal.

I don’t understand why some people go for ultrawide instead of an overall bigger screen?

Depends what you mean by ‘overall bigger’. I’d argue that for the same number of pixels, a wider format is more usable for multiple apps. I often use two or three apps side-by-side on my 34” 1440p ultrawide. Eg a browser + reference manager + Word. I don’t need more height for any of those apps. Or I use Photoshop in full screen with an image in the middle and toolbars to either side and out of the way.

If your workflow involves very tall (but not wide) spreadsheets or coding then vertical height is indeed potentially more important. I wouldn’t go back to 16:9 unless I needed it to do something else (watch films or play games I suppose?).

Obviously you may feel differently, but there’s a reason that a lot of people like ultrawide.

For 4k then yes, definitely go for 32" over 27"

Ultrawide is where its at. We see in landscape so the aspect ratio is far more natural. Also when we have multiple windows open we tend to arrange them horizontally rather than vertically. Far easier to work with an ultra wide and no need for multiple monitors.

I have a 24" ultra wide monitor for my work laptop and a 27" iMac. I would say the 24" ultra wide is a better screen for work despite the better resolution of the Mac screen and the taller dimensions.

You can probably get a similar result with a 32" 16:9 monitor because you're sat so close.

Part of why I got the 40” is that it’s similar size/pixels to a 34” UW (and I tend to use about 60-70% of the vertical pixels for most things) but you have the flexibility to have that usable area high or low on the monitor, or have taller windows if you need.

you can sit a window the size of a 22” monitor in the middle and maybe have smaller windows showing emails and task lists etc around the sides.

That's what I do. I do stuff like an editing window in the middle and logs scrolling by in terminal windows elsewhere.