Tip: Invest in an Ultrawide 49" Monitor to dramatically increase your work output

Or buy a second monitor if you are using a laptop 😄 I'm so used to it right now that I feel lost when I work without it

I am building Adflow.ai on a 4K lg monitor. I was thinking about upgrading to an ultrawide, but a 2 monitor setup would still be less expensive .

BTW I just realized this monitor is one of the few tech items that are cheaper in IT than in US.

I love the idea of having an engrossing display like this to work from, but I can't get over the idea of a single pixel failure being a constant irritant, or worse - a whole unit failure, meaning all of that display going away at once. At least with multiple monitors there's some resilience there. I'd be gutted if a $1200 monitor failed after a couple of years (I'm not suggesting yours will, of course).

The posture aspect is interesting - I wonder if having a wrap-around screen could actually deliver some benefits through occasional head-turning to see other apps, over looking dead-ahead at one or two monitors?

Also got a 49” Samsung but I’m missing my 4K display sometimes. Thinking about buying the 34” 4K monitor and have the laptop open as well for the office. We’ll see 😊. It’s a great monitor though that’s for sure!

At beginning of the pandemic while transitioning to working 100% from home I bought the Dell 49" Ultrawide and it was hand's down one of the greatest investments in terms of productivity.

I am using FancyZones to manage my windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones with the following window setup:

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| ___1 ___| _______________ |____4 ____|
|-------------|3|-------------- |
| 2 | _______________|5|
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1. Slack
2. YouTube Music
3. Main Working Area (about 27" in size)
4. DevDocs (https://devdocs.io/)
5. Terminal

Damn, that's an insane monitor! I've got a single 27" and my Macbook Pro screen, but have been toying with the idea of an ultrawide simply so I can have two tabs of code open at once in VSCode so I can better practice TDD. Maybe if my LCD dies I'll replace with an ultrawide.

I personally prefer multiple monitors over one ultrawide monitor. I use Windows and I like using the Win + arrow keys to easily move things around multiple screens.

I currently use three 28" inch Samsung 4k monitors, I got them on sale for about $300 each.

also got the G9. what a monster

I have a 32-inch 4k monitor and they do really make a difference over 2x 1080p monitors. I have IntelliJ and chrome open to a larger size than 1080. Then underneath those, I have slack, a terminal and then another chrome window for youtube/whatever. When I just have the two windows I end up clicking around a bunch trying to find stuff with increase real estate on my screen I just move my eyes around really.

Being productive is not about screen size or count. What makes you productive is being able to focus your mind, on your product and/or company. Focusing sometimes requires you to narrow your mental (and visual) view so you don’t get lost.

I personally think I would “drown” in this screen. A regular 25” whose windows are stacked instead of laid out horizontally, makes me work faster using cmd+tab than moving my head/eyes around all the time.

Less can sometimes be more.

Wow! I happily switched to an ultrawide 34" and it's such a great tool. I can't imagine a 49". It's just... wow!

I was working as an outside contractor at MySpace the day they laid off 49% of staff unexpectedly.

MySpace had this problem back then: Every desk had three monitors on it. Every time I walked by all the devs' desks they had these fancy setups with a cutting-edge machine and three monitors. A few had four, and I counted two that had five monitors on their desks, arranged in a semicricle. All to render some static content sprinkled with a few animated gifs of sparkles. It was ridiculous. I packed it in and packed it out every day with my hacked 13" HP laptop running linux. I delivered my contracts on time and despite being a high-priced contractor who should've been the first on the chopping block, my contract survived the layoffs and Alex Maghen - the CTO - asked me to stay on longer but I didn't want to stay on a sinking ship.

After everyone else was gone, there were all these abandoned monitors laying around not hooked-up to anything. Like pillars of some long-forgotten civilization, they stood on no longer serving their purpose.

If you think your work output isn't high enough I'd like to posit that the monitor may not be your problem.

I've been playing with the idea of coding in VR via an Oculus Rift S. They're around 1/4 of the cost of a monitor like this and coding in orbit around Earth sounds pretty neat.

Testing little changes reduces productivity in my opinion. I try not to do that and code with a mental picture of what I'm building. I keep coding until I have covered everything that is required for the result I want.

Sometimes, a miracle happens: everything works and looks good when I finally check the result. I think I'd never be able to finish if I was looking at what a few lines of code will do.