Monitor resolution, ppi, and size for document work?
Discussion
I’m a bit confused about resolution/PPI and would appreciate a bit of a steer.
95% of my work is documents/Word/Excel, and a little bit of RAW photo editing in Lightroom.
I currently use a pair of Dell IPS 24” monitors which, when I first bought them years ago, honestly looked really pixelated. Blocky text and so on. But then again I was comparing them to my MacBook Retina screen.
I’m now used to them, but they still don’t look amazing, and text does look so much crisper and nicer to read on my MacBook.
Seen as how I spend 7-8 hours per day staring at my screens reading and editing documents, I would like to upgrade to something better to look at.
Since my Dell screens are now a 10 year old model, I assumed that pretty much anything would now be better as everyone is throwing around terms like Ultra HD, 4K, 8K, etc, but it appears I am mistaken?
I have checked, and my Dell screens have a resolution of 92ppi. My MacBook screen has a resolution of 227ppi.
I was hopeful that a modern monitor would get me a bit more than 92ppi. I would also like to ditch the dual screen and go for a single larger screen as I dislike the break in the centre of the two screens.
I looked at an MSI 40” ‘Ultra HD screen at £299 and found it to be only 93ppi.
I then looked at a few more and it looks like once you get up to 40” or thereabouts the resolution is no better than what I have now.
Ideally I would like to stick with a size of 40” ish as the combined size of my 2 monitors now is 43” and I do use most of the space every day.
What sort of resolution do you all find acceptable for document work?
I’m beginning to suspect that I’ll be no better off in resolution by changing for a new screen, unless I spend a billion pounds on something really high end?
Thanks
95% of my work is documents/Word/Excel, and a little bit of RAW photo editing in Lightroom.
I currently use a pair of Dell IPS 24” monitors which, when I first bought them years ago, honestly looked really pixelated. Blocky text and so on. But then again I was comparing them to my MacBook Retina screen.
I’m now used to them, but they still don’t look amazing, and text does look so much crisper and nicer to read on my MacBook.
Seen as how I spend 7-8 hours per day staring at my screens reading and editing documents, I would like to upgrade to something better to look at.
Since my Dell screens are now a 10 year old model, I assumed that pretty much anything would now be better as everyone is throwing around terms like Ultra HD, 4K, 8K, etc, but it appears I am mistaken?
I have checked, and my Dell screens have a resolution of 92ppi. My MacBook screen has a resolution of 227ppi.
I was hopeful that a modern monitor would get me a bit more than 92ppi. I would also like to ditch the dual screen and go for a single larger screen as I dislike the break in the centre of the two screens.
I looked at an MSI 40” ‘Ultra HD screen at £299 and found it to be only 93ppi.
I then looked at a few more and it looks like once you get up to 40” or thereabouts the resolution is no better than what I have now.
Ideally I would like to stick with a size of 40” ish as the combined size of my 2 monitors now is 43” and I do use most of the space every day.
What sort of resolution do you all find acceptable for document work?
I’m beginning to suspect that I’ll be no better off in resolution by changing for a new screen, unless I spend a billion pounds on something really high end?
Thanks
This is something that has been alluding me as well.
I was thinking with Black Friday approaching, now would be a good time to get a larger monitor.
An ultra widescreen one maybe ... like at work.
Those are approx £1k so it's a hard swerve, and instead look at somewhere 1/3 of the price.
But like the OP, massively confused as most seem to be gaming monitors.
My time is spent on contracts so WORD / PDF files and mostly with Excel... not sure a refresh rate really matters too much.
No answer to the questions raised, but definitely interested to hear the wisdom of this parish.
Your not alone buddy.
I was thinking with Black Friday approaching, now would be a good time to get a larger monitor.
An ultra widescreen one maybe ... like at work.
Those are approx £1k so it's a hard swerve, and instead look at somewhere 1/3 of the price.
But like the OP, massively confused as most seem to be gaming monitors.
My time is spent on contracts so WORD / PDF files and mostly with Excel... not sure a refresh rate really matters too much.
No answer to the questions raised, but definitely interested to hear the wisdom of this parish.
Your not alone buddy.
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