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Monitor Choice

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    Votes: 3 75.0%
  • b

    Votes: 1 25.0%

  • Total voters
    4
Vertical pixels are your friend. Wide is great for movies and Photoshop (palettes!) but tall is good for documents, web pages, scanning a list of files... everything else, really.
 
Vertical pixels are your friend. Wide is great for movies and Photoshop (palettes!) but tall is good for documents, web pages, scanning a list of files... everything else, really.

Totally agree, I would not go with a 16:9 monitor unless absolutely necessary. The shortening of the monitor leads to frustration because the scroll wheel will become more commonly used.
 
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