Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup

Re:Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup by st3fan on Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:11PM (#5811130)

Here is a photo oh my setup in the Mozilla Toronto office: https://www.flickr.com/photos/19132706@N00/8867085758/

Very basic: I do all my work on the MacBook (I love the Retina display) but have a browser with devtools open on an external 24" display in portrait mode.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup by tzury on Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:20PM (#5811168)

Mind sharing the type / model of that "24 display?

In my experience, some screens (Samsung and Philips in particular) are loosing quality when rotated - This may not be the screen's fault but NVidia or the open-source video driver I have used.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup by jasonabate on Sunday June 02, 2013 @11:46PM (#5811249)

Same here, have had really bad experience with Samsung displays when rotated to portrait mode. Currently, we have a number of Dell Ultrasharp models (23" and 24" mostly), all of which look good in either orientation. They cost a bit more, but the quality is definitely worth it.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup by omarali on Monday June 03, 2013 @12:02AM (#5811301)

You can tell from the picture that it's a Dell. Probably a U2410.

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your MacBook* Desk Setup by st3fan on Monday June 03, 2013 @03:58PM (#5815534)

Yeah it is a Dell U2410. Not sure what they did but it looks just fine rotated.

I also have an older one from 2008 which looks very horrible in portrait mode.

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