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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by lhball on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:39AM (#27221697)
$1K - Hard pass. I'll take two crappy IPS 24 inch monitors before I drop that kinda cash on a monitor.

Thing is I've seen co-workers with these, and buy call accounts they love them, but I've never really been blown away by them.

The 144hz refresh rate is nice, but wasted on someone who just writes code all day.

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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by dmd on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:01AM (#27221996)
Anything you're gonna interact with more than half your waking hours is worth spending lots of money on, to me. Over 4 years of daily use a monitor like that is something like 20 cents an hour. Seems worth it to me.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by Hroble on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:36PM (#27223420)
There are much cheaper curved widescreen monitors as well, I bought a 100hz AOC monitor for 360 dollars or so. That was more than worth it.
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Re:Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years? by speedgoose on Thursday May 20, 2021 @12:23PM (#27223223)
It looks to be 60Hz. I think 144Hz is nice even if you only write code. Everything is more smooth, like scrolling code or documents.
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