I had two desktops and two laptops from Dell and 3 of them had faulty parts which were well known issues at that time. I still use XPS8700 desktop. Several months after I purchased this desktop, mouse wheel got broken and bonding agent leaked from keyboard bottom rubber damaged my table. Also its backup software was faulty. I have lost data only once in my whole life and it was when Dell's backup software failed to restore my data from the backup. I wish I want to live long enough to see Dell goes chapter 11. Now I only trust Apple's products. If I have to use Windows PC, I will try HP next time.
I had only 1 HP computer. It burst into flame on my desk! Power supply failed spectacularly. (Fortunately I had a fire extinguisher handy.)
Yeah... no kidding! While we're on the topic of "house fires"... years ago I had one. We'd had chicken bones and and threw them into the trash, a wicker basket. As we had "trash dogs", I put the basket up on the counter so that the dogs couldn't get into it. Well... our Husky wanted into the basket anyway and climbed up on the counter to get it. As it turns out, the electric stove had a burner still engaged from some prior heating (not enough to show "red" so that we'd see it, you know).. and the dog knocked the basket onto the stove burner... which caught on fire and brought the fire department to our house. The supervisor was filling out the report where there was a box, "caused by animal". He asked around if any of the other firemen had ever checked that box, and everybody said "no". Ended up costing about $1,000 for replacing the stove and repainting the kitchen. Ah... Huskys!
Stick with 22' or 24' 1080p monitors. No need for anything fancy, because the natural breaks in the screen will help you stay more organized. My setup:
Displays are a very personal preference. And since we have to stare at the damned things for what seems the majority of our lives - you are right to search what is most comfortable and intuitive for yourself. Good Luck !
I have 3 x 24" monitors and have been considering scaling back to the Samsung Odyssey 49" but more I look into it the more I think I will stick with 2-3 monitors for the sort of work I do with trading and outside of it. The ultrawides are really set up for gaming more than productivity work.
I went from 4 x 24" to 2 x 32". It's all about personal preference. I keep my execution platform on a different PC and desk than my modeling/charting PC. I trade longer time frame swings so for me personally it works.
Sure you can. I use 3 34 inch screen and they all run at 120 refresh rates. It depends on the specs of the video card.
In almost all aspects trading and coding, vertical screen estate is almost always more valuable than horizontal screen estate. I sorely miss the 16:10 ratio, love my 2560x1600 screen. They are not made anymore because the industry decided to use the same TV aspect ratios for monitors (cheaper to produce) To each his own, but I am willing to bet most code developers and screen traders would disagree with you.