16:10 - How I miss thee
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Same, i would love a new monitor, and i think the 3007 is starting to fail, but there not one out there that i'm happy with
What I find weird now with 16:10 is it feels like a giant fancy 4:3 display.
I gamed in 4:3 17", then 4:3 21", then 16:10 24" but it wasn't exactly a gaming monitor, moved to current 16:9 120Hz and did miss the :10. I don't fancy ultrawide, I guess I'm stuck with 16:9. Maybe there is hope with MicroLED tech (which is years away from being affordable).
Best dad ever.
Are you moaning? You should be very grateful for your dad's gift, you spoiled brat!
LOL
so you saying that nearly every screen used in desktops and laptops are "unusable"
I dumped two perfect CRT (21and a 17 inch) 16:10 monitors a couple of years ago that cost me around £1200 back in the day.
Literally couldn't give them away.
Don't miss them in the slightest, prefer my UW 3440x1440 in every way.
Literally couldn't give them away.
Don't miss them in the slightest, prefer my UW 3440x1440 in every way.
A bit of a thread bump, but today I found out that Lenovo still sell a couple of 16:10 monitors: Thinkvision T25d and T25m
Glad it's of use. Both currently on sale too. The M version has USBC but the D version without USBC is a fantastic price right now. I can't provide a link for obvious reasons.
Temporarily reverted from a triple setup to a single Dell U2412M purely for retro gaming. I wanted to convert a spare PC to a Windows XP gaming machine.
The first time around when the Dell was originally released, it had a horrible anti glare coating and suffered from sparkling/smudgy picture as a result. Nonetheless, the underlying image quality was excellent.
Got rid and picked up another not so long ago, since recent reviews advised that the anti-glare was far less aggressive.
It does it make a difference!
Not the best gaming monitor (for casual I think its great) playing Half Life, GTA and Far Cry at 1600 x 1200, it looks awesome.
The first time around when the Dell was originally released, it had a horrible anti glare coating and suffered from sparkling/smudgy picture as a result. Nonetheless, the underlying image quality was excellent.
Got rid and picked up another not so long ago, since recent reviews advised that the anti-glare was far less aggressive.
It does it make a difference!
Not the best gaming monitor (for casual I think its great) playing Half Life, GTA and Far Cry at 1600 x 1200, it looks awesome.
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Another small bump from me. I've been a satisfied user of a Dell U2412 and then a Dell U2415. Unless I've missed something out, it seems that all of the Dell Ultrasharps after U2415 got nerfed down to 16:9. A pity as Ultrasharp was a separate line from the other Dell ranges and they could have keep that as 16:10 to keep that line going.
Thanks for the heads up on the 2 Thinkvisions. I will keep the U2415 for as long as possible then will go for a Thinkvision when the U2415 fails.
The importance of 16:10 to me is because I only have 1 eye. A monitor as square as possible is therefore better for me. 4:3 would have been even better, although the 4:3 LCD screens only went up to 20". Anything over 20" was widescreen.
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I love 16:10 as well. My Dell 2405 finally gave up this year after almost 15 years use. To think I debated dropping £500 on that! It went with a bang and much smoke.
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16:10 should be better than 16:9. Sadly in software you always ended up with H- rather than V+. That's probably why there's even a debate. More pixels/viewable area should win every time!
I remember that feeling back in 2005 getting that monitor.
It's still in use to this day.
Most people run their apps fullscreen as fiddling around with window sizes all the time is a compromise and faff.
Instead of a nice fullscreen 16:10 view, we get a complete waste of horizontal and lack of vertical space on ultrawides like this:
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When working I have a Dell 16:10 next to an Acer 38" 21:9. Neither are perfect. If I was buying again I would probably look for a monitor perhaps max 34" wide, not curved and with as much vertical resolution as possible.
Just a thought, in the monitor picture above, imagine that monitor display starting a couple of inches from the desk and continuing up to the same height. An ultrahigh/ultraheight monitor perhaps? Who here would purchase one of those?