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Originally Posted by Renate
Arrg! I hate Black Friday and I hate shopping for things online. There are so many offerings and eventually you just turn the computer off.
My current desktop monitor is not bad (23" 1920 x 1080). But it is 10 years old and the viewing angles are not great. When you get to a website where text boxes are differentiated by white vs. slightly off-white I have to move my head to see any contrast. Nowadays monitors have viewing angles > 180° (i.e. you can see them perfectly clearly from behind  ).
So, I wanted a 29" ultrawide 2560 x 1080, which gives me exactly the same height physically and pixelally. I like to look over the top of my monitor to see coyotes skulking by and kit foxes playing. 90% of 29" are made by LG. I had finally decided to buy a specific model, went to BestBuy.com and clicked. I was happily surprised to see that the price had been marked down $60 to $170.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-29-i...?skuId=6506319
@tubemonkey I have a Moto E6 and I think it's a piece of junk. It's much inferior to my last E5 (which broke). Of course with model names now I don't know if my E6 has anything to do with your E6.
Optical disk drives and 5-1/4" bays seem to be unpopular. It's hard to get a small PC chassis with one bay. Sure, you can get some washing machine sized beast with five bays. I built a custom enclosure out of aluminum. This was supposed to be just a prototype, but I kept it. |
I suggest a 34" ultrawide with a resolution of 3440x1440. 1080 on a desktop monitor is meh!
Another option that I like is getting a 4k LCD TV to use as a monitor.