Re:Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
by bee_rider on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:29PM
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I used a 40-or-so inch med-to-low tier TV for coding a bit, and was surprised at how not terrible it was. The latency was not actually that much worse than a monitor.
This was in the living room, which is sort of inconvenient. So I decided to get one for my desk. Being a silly project just for myself, I didn't want to splurge on it, so I went for the cheapest 4k I could find. I think it may have been a store brand.
The response time on that thing was noticeably terrible, like I would lose track of the cursor in vim because it wasn't keeping up properly.
The moral of the story I think is that you can get a not-terrible 4k tv for coding reasonably cheap, but the response time issue may still exist. It is probably just a roll of the dice.
This was in the living room, which is sort of inconvenient. So I decided to get one for my desk. Being a silly project just for myself, I didn't want to splurge on it, so I went for the cheapest 4k I could find. I think it may have been a store brand.
The response time on that thing was noticeably terrible, like I would lose track of the cursor in vim because it wasn't keeping up properly.
The moral of the story I think is that you can get a not-terrible 4k tv for coding reasonably cheap, but the response time issue may still exist. It is probably just a roll of the dice.