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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by bitL on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:58AM (#22543123)
Imagine you are used to 4k quantum dot HDR10 displays from FAANG. Would you be happy with some gaming monitor instead? A decent 5k2k monitor is $1100, 5k2.8k is $1300. 4k DCI EIZO is 4k+. You might want two of those as well.
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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by jkachmar on Thursday March 12, 2020 @11:47AM (#22558035)
The monitor I have is a Samsung C27HG70, which _is_ a quantum for LED monitor.

Although it’s not 4K, given the fact that it ships with a color calibration report I think calling it “some gaming monitor” is a bit silly.

As someone who’s a bit of a picture quality fanatic (I preferred color accurate panel displays “before it was cool”, my television is a 4K HDR10 OLED, etc.) I think it’s quite ridiculous that you’d classify your suggestions as anything other than luxuriously decadent for most programming work.

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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by Ambroos on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @03:16AM (#22543785)
Don't be ridiculous. I work for a FAANG company and we get great but very standard Dell monitors that are all well below $1100.
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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by magduf on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @12:51PM (#22547322)
I don't work at a FAANG company, but we do have some pretty nice hardware. I have 27" Dell monitors that I think cost about $800 each when new. (They're probably less now, they're a few years out-of-date by now.)
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Re:Google recommends all North America employees work from home by ellenhp on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @01:46AM (#22543339)
Google's standard issue monitors are standard density. FAANG employees aren't used to fancy monitors, and can certainly get by without them.

Edited to remove a claim that I haven't seen 4k monitors, since I just realized the big displays we can get must be 4k. We can only have one of those though and they're not as fancy as you're claiming.

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