Dual Monitors vs. Ultra Wide Curved Monitor

[phreezee]

49" Ultrawide works great for me with VMWare Horizon Client + Windows 11.

[sabad66]

How does a curved ultra wide monitor reduce eye strain? Is it as simple as that your eyes don’t have to move farther when looking at the outside edges of the monitors or is there something more?

I’m pretty happy with my dual 24” 1440p (upgraded from dual 22” 1080p) but now I’m curious.

[mr2mike]

If it's eye movement. I posted the poor man's hack above. It seriously works.

[beecue]

I'm in the same situation due to going back to the office in the next couple of months for 2 days a week. I currently have two separate spaces, one for work and one for home. I have three 24" work monitors, two of which I'll have to bring back to work.

I'll have to convert to using only one space as I won't have enough monitors for two anymore.

Option 1: Use my personal monitor and one work monitor with a kvm switch and USB-C HDMI dock with work laptop. Have the ability to use mouse/keyboard for work laptop / home computer.
Option 2: Get an ultrawide monitor with USB-C and KVM built-in to use for work/home.

The following seems pretty good and if I ever decide to upgrade my PC it seems decent for gaming as well.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/gigabyte/m34wq

[schurchill39]

I was running 2x 24" curved monitors and liked them but moved to a 50" 4K tv and I love the real estate. On my work computer I used the native windows zoning but on my corp's surface book I use the fancy zones which is much nicer to configure depending on my task. Also as mentioned above, only having 1 HDMI input is nice. I think the 50" is a touch too big so I may downsize to 40" but going back to the office with 2 regular sized screens is going to suck.

[cyra1ax]

VMware Horizon works fine for me with one 34" ultrawide and 1 24".

[jwslam]

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I was running 2x 24" curved monitors and liked them but moved to a 50" 4K tv and I love the real estate. On my work computer I used the native windows zoning but on my corp's surface book I use the fancy zones which is much nicer to configure depending on my task. Also as mentioned above, only having 1 HDMI input is nice. I think the 50" is a touch too big so I may downsize to 40" but going back to the office with 2 regular sized screens is going to suck.

I have 43" here. P&ID's are amazeballs.

[taemo]

both at home and work I have a 27" 1440p in landscape and a 24" 1080p in portrait mode. allows me to have up to 4 programs open simultaneously.
2 screens IMO is more convenient in case 1 dies and max/min a program is easier but I never owned an UWA because curved ones will probably not be the best for photo editing.

[birdman86]

I went for 2x27's stacked vertically, the top monitor is nice for reference material or kicking back and watching stuff while lower monitor is the productive screen. I might add a portrait 24 on the side for shits n giggles. Always felt like ultrawides throw off the balance of a desk.

I also highly recommend Display Fusion if you want to polish up your monitor layout. It'll let you split individual displays into smaller screens so the maximize button works right etc. Would be essential for an ultrawide IMO. And with a keypress you could turn it back into one big screen for gaming or whatever, works very well.

[JfuckinC]

@Buster Clean your desk show us the goods!

[Crazyjoker77]

Im sure i oosted this before but heres my office setup. 1 34" 3440x1440 and 2 27" 1440s. Other system is just a 50" 4k tv.

[98brg2d]

At work I run dual 27" setup in a V shape. At home, I have the exact same monitors but add in the 15.4" laptop. As with several others, I usually put email or Teams on the lappy, autocad on one screen and excel and explorer on the other (with youtube minimized so I can listen to car videos).

[holden]

I also run a dual 27" at 1440p along with my 14" laptop monitor. I've been thinking about swapping one of the 27" for a curved 34" ultra-wide, but keeping the second 27". Would it be too awkward to have curved 34" along with a flat 27"?

[killramos]

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Sounds like ours was implemented better
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The “solution” I was given was to use RDP into a terminal server then run RDP from that to my machine and then dual screens would work.

I told them to be better.

[Darkane]

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Im sure i oosted this before but heres my office setup. 1 34" 3440x1440 and 2 27" 1440s. Other system is just a 50" 4k tv.

Nice setup!

[jwslam]

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Nice setup!

Missing Wyze Cam

[redline]

I used 3 24” monitors it was too wide to run 3 horizontal… so I ran 2 horizontal and one vertical just for communications , email and IM/soft phone and the others for business apps.

I run one UW now and it is good enough

[s2k_boi]

@redline what size UW are you running?
@tonytiger55 Thanks for the info and link. I'm in finance running at least 2-3 software excluding browser, emails and teams (etc) and no I can't install software without corporate passwords.
@Buster I'd like to see that setup

[tonytiger55]

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@redline what size UW are you running?
@tonytiger55 Thanks for the info and link. I'm in finance running at least 2-3 software excluding browser, emails and teams (etc) and no I can't install software without corporate passwords.
@Buster I'd like to see that setup

The problem with a 49' setup is that its a dive into the unknown. Stores don't have them on display, so one cannot work out the ergonomics. My screen is not the best, I bought it open box and it was a old model. But work paid for 1/3, so really I paid $300 for a monitor that costs $1300.

There are some reviews on youtube where people have moved to a ultrawide set up and did not like it.
If it helps. You are welcome to come over, plug in your laptop and play around. That way you can get a feel if the ultra wide screen is good for you. You don't want to spend over $1300 and think what have a I done.

[ExtraSlow]

I wish I had a consistent enough work location that I could geek out on the hardware. I have a 2x 24" setup at my two main work locations. But I'm working from conference rooms and other places pretty often.

If I get down to one main office, I'm going to buy my won keyboard and mouse. The work supplied ones are quite bad. Frustratingly bad.