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I'd like to hear from people who develop with a 49 inch monitor. Especially the really curvy one.

I had a 34 inch ultrawide for a while, but eventually got tired of the low resolution. Switched to a 32 inch 4K and I'm pretty happy with it. But it's a bit slow starting up, the refresh rate maxes out at 60Hz, and sometimes I find myself wishing for more space. Partially because I'm getting old and my eyes thank me for scaling up the size of fonts and such, which cuts down on the effective area of the screen.

I've been toying with the idea of getting the Samsung CRG9, but I've no idea if it would be a good choice for primarily software development. A big upside is that it's a single monitor, which will make my M1 MBP happy.

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I have an odyssey g9 (pretty much the same thing but the "gaming" version so it has a few additional bells and whistles such as 240hz and G-Sync) and I love it.

I'm not sure if this capability would be available on the model you're looking at, but I typically use the Picture-By-Picture mode (with two DisplayPort cables connected from my GPU to the monitor) for work with custom resolution profiles set to enable each side to run at 120hz. I use Windows and don't have a Mac so I'm not sure if you can do that sort of thing. The PBP options for this monitor allow you to choose the split so if you want to go with an ultrawide and leftover portion, you can do that as well. The main reason I go with this setup is it allows me to go "full screen" with each half of the monitor, or if needed share a half screen over clients like Zoom if necessary.

As a productivity machine, the lack of bezel and increase of screen real-estate is fantastic for multitasking, there's enough room to have the documentation off to the side in addition to the code and any messages.

Got oddessy g9 this Black Friday for ~$900. (https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/monitors/gaming/49--ody...)

Has been smooth sailing with MBP 16” Intel (2019).

Really loving the extra real estate. Can not imagine going back to plain old 22-24” screens.

Edit: Primarily a backend+devops role. so refresh rate or pixels don't really matter. Being able to have multi tabs open on IntelliJ is real win for dev work. (Called split tab in jetbrains world)

I use the CRG9. Combine it with the ms powertoys and you’ll be a happy camper. I divide mine in 3 where i have vscode in the middle and 1 column left and right.

I do reccomend getting the one with the 5120x1440 resolution. I still have the old 3840x1080 one and I miss having more pixels sometimes.

One downside tha you have to take into account is that you can never share your whole acreen when using teams when the other persons don’t have an ultrawide. It will look super small on their screens.

I have the odyssey version of this. Excellent for frontend work, where ill have some 3 or 4 windows up at the same time.

I develop with that 49" curved Dell. Works really nice when you can fit 7-8 full height terminals side by side in single workspace.

And of course https://twitter.com/varjag/status/1120709771022221314

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