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Comment by tjr225 | Hacker News Reader

I will never give up my 24" 16:10 Dell Ultrasharp even if it is low def.

I have one, too. It's pretty sad that 16:10 has fallen out of style and that there is no 27" 2560x1600 display available.

Dell has the Ultrasharp UP3017 with 2560x1600 at 30", maybe that's something you can try if you want more pixels. It's just pretty expensive and has a big bezel since it was released in 2017.

I did have a dream once of a "4k Pro" that was 4000x2500. Never gonna happen.

I bemoan the fact that there are so few 16:10's on the market and nothing high resolution. 16:10 is such a great aspect-ratio and the extra vertical screen real-estate is very useful when programming.

It is interesting to see some laptops move off of 16:9 to 16:10 or 3:2. This gives me hope that we'll see new/better 16:10 panels.

I have two of them and I sure like the 16:10 aspect. I recently bought a refurb Dell UP3017 30" at 2560 x 1600/60 and I love the thing.

My favorite 19" 4x3 LG monitor is what is keeping me from getting cross-eyed.

The image quality upgrade from HD to 4K is pretty massive. I still have a few 1200 and 1080 displays around and they look like shit compared to my main display. You can't fight time and the market forever.

Do you find any problem with text being too small? I am typing this right now on a on a 30" 2560x1600 display which is right at 100dpi which I find is very readable. In the past I had tried 27" displays at 2560x1440 which has a dpi of 108 which made things just small enough to be hard to read. Obviously I could scale stuff in the OS, but that typically left me with some UI elements looking fuzzy/distorted. My ideal I think would be a 29" 5k monitor, so that probably is never going to happen.

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