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A comment on Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work?.

Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by gregordv on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:06PM (#13155194)
I use the Seiki 42" 4k TV which hovers around $300 (http://camelcamelcamel.com/Seiki-SE42UM-42-Inch-Ultra-Black/...) as my primary development monitor. As a TV, color-correct, or a gaming monitor, it's rather dross, but as a wall of pixels to work on code, I will never go back to anything smaller. Ever.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by peller on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:16PM (#13155230)
How far away do you find you have to sit?
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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by thatsethnz on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:27PM (#13155274)
You dont. At 42 inches a 4k screen is basically four perfectly aligned 21 inch HD panels. Don't think 4k for smooth fonts and "retina" style pixel density. Think of it in terms of screen real estate.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by Tempest1981 on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:37PM (#13155313)
Sitting an arms-length away, I'm just imagining a lot of head movement going from the bottom (dock or taskbar) to top (menu bar or window title bar). Any tips? Maybe it works if you put only less-frequently-used windows up high.

I've used a 30" display (at arms-length), and it felt nice, but already rather tall.

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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by thebiglebrewski on Sunday December 11, 2016 @10:44PM (#13155355)
This is really interesting but yeah it almost seems like overkill for my use case! However I may be editing some 4K video too in the future (from a drone) so maybe this is the way to go.
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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by prawn on Sunday December 11, 2016 @11:28PM (#13155547)
Anyone have any issues driving one of these from a MBP?
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Re:Ask HN: Best Monitor Around $300 for Dev Work? by ShirsenduK on Monday December 12, 2016 @07:29AM (#13157572)
I had but then I got a mini display port 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 active converter and that fixed the colours and fineness and best of all runs @ 60Hz
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