Yw-slayer
June 12th, 2016, 08:54 AM
At home, I have a Dell U2713. That is on its original stand. At home I spend most of my time watching, uh, "videos", editing pictures/videos, and very little time gaming. However, I like my monitor to be a good gaming monitor, just in case. The most important features to me are those relating to photo-editing (hence colour accuracy (within the sRGB space only as I don't have the time or energy to go to Adobe RGB) and geometry, although in fairness I am hardly doing fine art work so maybe I am being quite picky) and response time.
At work, I have a Dell U3415, which runs alongside a Dell U2407 in portrait mode. They are both on Humanscale arms so I can move both of them in 6 dimensions, and I often do. I spend around 80% of each week's screen time looking at these monitors. I originally bought the U3415 to replace my U2707, which I gave to my dad due to its lower resolution (hence bigger text and icons) and which he now uses.
I didn't originally want the 3415 to be used at home as I was concerned about the huge resolution affecting gaming , and more importantly I thought the curvature might affect geometry when editing photos. However the GTX1070 is out soon, and after months of use I think the curve is very slight and I could probably live with it at home.
Conversely, I mainly use Word at work. The problem with the U3415 is that it is very wide, but not very tall, as it is a 21:10 monitor. Height is obviously quite useful in Word. It is, after all, why I run my U2407 in portrait mode.
Do I leave things as they are?
Or do I move the U2713 to work and use it in place of the U3415, making me possibly more productive there (and even though I think by now I have adapted to the U3415), while moving the U3415 home so that I get a more "cinematic" experience overall and while gaming, even though I would lose a bit of vertical screen estate, and possibly have to put up with slightly less accurate geometry, when editing NOT VERY SRS BSNSS photos?
At work, I have a Dell U3415, which runs alongside a Dell U2407 in portrait mode. They are both on Humanscale arms so I can move both of them in 6 dimensions, and I often do. I spend around 80% of each week's screen time looking at these monitors. I originally bought the U3415 to replace my U2707, which I gave to my dad due to its lower resolution (hence bigger text and icons) and which he now uses.
I didn't originally want the 3415 to be used at home as I was concerned about the huge resolution affecting gaming , and more importantly I thought the curvature might affect geometry when editing photos. However the GTX1070 is out soon, and after months of use I think the curve is very slight and I could probably live with it at home.
Conversely, I mainly use Word at work. The problem with the U3415 is that it is very wide, but not very tall, as it is a 21:10 monitor. Height is obviously quite useful in Word. It is, after all, why I run my U2407 in portrait mode.
Do I leave things as they are?
Or do I move the U2713 to work and use it in place of the U3415, making me possibly more productive there (and even though I think by now I have adapted to the U3415), while moving the U3415 home so that I get a more "cinematic" experience overall and while gaming, even though I would lose a bit of vertical screen estate, and possibly have to put up with slightly less accurate geometry, when editing NOT VERY SRS BSNSS photos?