Which 27 in did you buy at Costco? I was looking at one in store last weekend, and online this week, and have talked myself into buying. Thanks
Lets play guess the chart. I have no idea about the other ones, but the most left one looks like gold?
WinstonTJ consider the have one big widescreen and the others either side and above so you can look at all info - this is how and why I am set up. 1x 30" and 6x 20" 1 either side, 4 vertical along the top.
I think the problem is what I'm using these things for. Maybe its because not many people are truly using multiple RDP windows. It won't matter if the orientation is portrait or landscape, Remote Desktop by default maximizes to the whole window. I may actually try three square monitors in portrait and see how that flies... The problem I have with a widescreen in portrait is the wasted space - like maximizing a Google homepage window... a ton of wasted space. When I'm in an RDP session it's just mostly command prompt or a Powershell window and that would blow out a whole monitor. I'm thinking if I can't squeeze three square monitors I'll bite the bullet and just do another traditional 2x2 quad setup. Not what I want but 3x widescreens isn't exactly what I want either.
I use a bunch of rdps, vms or otherwise. I think, your issue is the low res monitors. That simple. There are quite a few KBs on this.. Also, mixed resolution monitor farms can wreak havoc on rdp sessions, as the primary monitor res can override the rest, a whole bunch of solutions on that issue as well.
I buy them at Costco or Sam's Club. To me, they are just another commodity item. I seem to have good luck with Samsung. The stands to run Quads I usually buy from Amazon.
Nice to see someone who knows their stuff! I'm not totally up to snuff on monitors and standard resolutions. I rarely buy them and if anything try to use up what I have in my used pile before getting new. I see this monitor has a 1600 x 1200 resolution - but it's a ~$700 monitor... And also it's a 21.5", a little obscure from the standard 19" we are all used to. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824002563 The rest that are brands I'd buy at prices I'd like to pay all seem to be back to 1280 x 1024. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ZX1AJ7120 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824260173 So when you say low-res what do you mean? Is 1280 x 1024 low-res these days?? I find it hard to believe that people are running around paying $500++ per monitor to trade with these days... And yes, fully understand the implications of mixed-resolution monitor farms. Not so bad with VNC but absolutely sucks for RDP. I'd like to stay with a single size/resolution exactly for this reason. Either all 19's or something else all the same.