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I'm not sure I understand. If you acknowledge that multiple monitors is great, why would you limit each monitor to 22"? Do you actually like having the monitors' plastic bezels in your field of view?

I suspect that if you were to actually use a single monitor that was the size of two 22" monitors side-by-side, you'd prefer it. The question then is how much more would you pay for that? I'd like to see the desktop manufacturers we're speaking of in this thread step up with R&D to make larger, better monitors more affordable.

I agree that multi-monitor configurations are great. I just want them to be unnecessary. I previously wrote this elsewhere:

Organizations and individuals alike have historically compensated for this disappointing reality by using multiple monitors, side-by-side. This should have been a short-lived condition--a signal to the manufacturers that larger screens are desired, in order to view and interact with more information at once. But display manufacturers seemingly ignored that signal, and PC manufacturers also looked the other way.



Nope. I don't have the two monitors side by side - they're at an angle to each other, so that as I turn my head it's more likely that I'll be looking at the second one straight on, rather than at an angle. I tried having them making up (effectively) one large monitor and it was a worse experience for me.


Oh, in that case you're agreeing with the other commenter who said the single large monitor should be curved, and I agree with that.




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