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Big corporations tend to send old hardware through the surplus marketplace. There's lots of 3-4 year old corporate computers for sale. Often, the company leases the computers and then the lessor will sell them when they're returned.

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I got a pretty nice 120Hz ultrawide dell for cheap at one of those surplus shops awhile back.

Apple themselves make pretty good business leasing their own products that way.

Meanwhile I’m at faang and they’re reusing 7 year old monitors still. Still getting equipment from pre-covid era.

Where are these luxurious big corporations that give their employees nice new equipment? :(

As long as it's working (and not gross), why do you need a new monitor? My current monitor is a 2010 model, I think I got it around 2013. I don't know what a new monitor would do for me, other than have a worse aspect ratio, cause Dell stopped making 30" 16:10 monitors.

In theory, yes. However a lot of these monitors are still 2560x1440 and are 30”+. The ppi is quite low. I’m looking for 4k and something that looks similar enough to the M4 MBP I’m working on. A lot of these just don’t look good as they used to.

Probably your new corporate monitor is also going to have relatively low ppi though. The problem isn't really the age then.

1440p is good enough that you aren't going to see individual pixels - just sit far back enough from the screen and use reasonable font hinting (Mac users are sadly out of luck here, but even then 2160p/4K is overkill).

What Im doing wrong? My 24" with 1920x1200 from 2010 is doing quite fine until today?

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