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I am generally stuck with 32" 4k screens because there's nothing more appealing at the moment.

I might switch to 41.5 oled (like Philips 42m2n8900 — it uses the same panel as C2 but is an actual monitor and has better anti-glare coating, or so I hope) or 42.5" ips/va (and already would have if there was 8k option and it was possible to drive that with eg. mobile radeon 780m), but mostly because I've got some eyesight issues that might work against my desire for crystal clear text and many windows side-by-side.

To prepare for that, I've already replaced my electric height-adjustable desk top with a custom 45" deep one, so now I just need to splurge on the monitor (but I've been holding hope something higher res would come out soon).

My main drivers are being able to fit a lot of windows simultaneously (Emacs, two email clients [yes, business requires outlook], couple of messengers, calendar and a terminal) + keep text nice and smooth, ideally even with subpixel rendering ("ClearType" for MS folks) off (that's why I'd like 8k).



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