43 Inch Monitor Vs Ultrawide 49 Inch for WFH

Lbiznes on 26/08/2022 - 19:52

Hi all, not a massive tech head in the PC space but looking for some thoughts from people who may have tried both.

I'm working in retail planning, and I spend a great deal of time in Excel, as well as Chrome based applications and a few enterprise planning apps. Currently working with a 27 inch and 23 inch dual setup - and potentially looking to upgrade soon as one of my Chrome based apps would benefit from a single wide screen, as the interface is very wide and it would limit scrolling requirements.

Also potentially hooking up my Xbox Series S - not the deciding factor but assuming 43 inch is the go here as Xbox can't utilise wide-screen efficiently.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and experiences.

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Comments

  • dragonos81 on 26/08/2022 - 20:28
    +1

    I got this one: https://www.lg.com/au/it-monitors/lg-43un700-b

    Really happy with it; wall-mounted it and have 3 devices connected to it. I work in IT, software programming.

    • biznes on 26/08/2022 - 20:37

      Thanks! This is one I was looking at on Ebay, relatively affordable too.

  • Presence on 26/08/2022 - 20:41
    +5

    Ultrawides are dumb for office work. They have less resolution. A 4K screen has heaps more vertical space which I find great for scrolling.

    • biznes on 26/08/2022 - 20:58

      Cheers, thought this would be the case. Thanks a million.

    • Franc-T on 26/08/2022 - 21:26
      +1

      I have an ultrawide 49". It can be better for a lot of gaming, but if purely for office work nah - id get two 27"s or in your case as you need / want a single window - get hte 43. Its not the resolution thats the issue, its you get less vertical resolution and that can be annoying, especially in excel. I do most of my work on a 4:3 32 (I do a lot of SQL etc and it seems a good size for me). Ive tried a bunch of monitors and I think a bit bigger than this would be fine for most people.

      One thing people dont use very much, but you may have a case for (outside of your excel use) is a monitor that can rotate to portrait mode. I worked for a while with a 32" as a main and a 27 or something rotated vertically, it was really good for certain stuff (like editing work instructions and screenshotting thing of main pages).

      You could even go tri 27" monitor - the bezels aren't that annoying for a lot of uses.

      Really depends on what you need.

    • p1 ama on 26/08/2022 - 22:45
      +6

      Ultrawides are dumb for office work. They have less resolution. A 4K screen has heaps more vertical space which I find great for scrolling.

      This is a pretty uninformed take. I use an ultrawide, it's perfect for use cases where you need horizontal width, e.g. having an Excel spreadsheet with many columns, or having side-by-side windows (e.g. 3 documents for referencing and writing).

      I'm not saying that they are the best for every use case, but saying that they are "dumb for office work" is in and of itself pretty dumb.

      • Presence on 27/08/2022 - 06:50
        +1

        But a 4k screen has the same horizontal resolution, so the ultrawide is no better in any way? Anything you can do on an ultrawide the 4k can do too. Theres also no downside to the extra vertical resolution. I stand by my comment.

        • festivalmayhem on 27/08/2022 - 09:43

          A lot of 49inch monitors have a horizontal resolution of 5120 vs a 4k resolution of 3840.

        • p1 ama on 27/08/2022 - 12:13
          +1

          But a 4k screen has the same horizontal resolution, so the ultrawide is no better in any way?

          Huh? The ultrawide being discussed will have a horizontal resolution of 5120, whereas the 4K will have a have a horizontal resolution of 3840.

          I stand by my comment.

          Get your facts straight.

    • festivalmayhem on 27/08/2022 - 09:44
      +1

      Disagree. I have a 49 inch screen for work. Deal a lot of with spreadsheets and it is fantastic for horizontally long spreadsheets.

  • Ghost47 on 26/08/2022 - 20:52

    Do 16:10 4K monitors exist? I would go to the ends of the earth to buy a 16:10 monitor over a 16:9 monitor if I were you.

    The extra vertical space makes a massive difference in Excel.

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