Reconsidering my Dell UltraSharp 49 Curved Monitor - U4919DW

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Laissez Faire, Jan 6, 2022.

  1. bone

    bone

    Yep, with order book DOMs the vertical space is mandatory :strong:

     
    #21     Jan 6, 2022
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  2. You pay a premium for Apple products (there is a reason they trade at 3tril valuations). For Windows I would never go with a US brand display as they all use Asian flat panel manufacturers. The key is focus on good LG or AUOptronics or similar flat panels. Buy a good LG monitor and you are better served imo than Dell or HP. I have very bad experience with any HP products. Whether business routers (Mellanox clone), business servers, laptops, or desktops.

     
    #22     Jan 6, 2022
  3. mervyn

    mervyn

    I bought an Alienware 38 monitor on Black Friday and I love it. But I realize I still need multiple monitors to perform different tasks.
     
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  4. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    "To each his own, ..." Yes.

    As for most traders or coders you might be right but I doubt it. The "most" part and no way to tell anyway.
     
    #24     Jan 6, 2022
  5. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    2/3rd's
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    #25     Jan 6, 2022
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  6. mervyn

    mervyn

    #26     Jan 6, 2022
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  7. Go to ANY investment bank, hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, etc ...and you will NOT see even ONE of those fancy super wide monitors being used by their traders. They use an array of 24" or 27" monitors utilizing low blue light technology, and their chart, dom, and gen financial info workspaces almost always have dark backgrounds with orange or light blue fonts. (example: Bloomberg terminal).

    It seems its almost always the younger generation that falls for the "newest and coolest" (usually meant for gaming) bullsh_t............
     
    #27     Jan 6, 2022
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  8. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    Because you've been to them ALL and can tell us all about it each and every one of them.

    One of my younger brothers is a carpenter up in NYC. He hasn't swung a hammer or sawed a 2x4 in years. All he does is furniture, which means desks and partitions mostly. He seen plenty of UWM's being installed. Of course not for the junior traders and likely only those who want them. But this isn't 1987's "Wall Street" anymore ya know.

    And BTW my "younger" brother is mid 50's and like myself, not a gamer by any definition.
     
    #28     Jan 6, 2022
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  9. Many of Dell's monitors are targeting the financial industry and isn't gaming screens per se. I wouldn't say it's fancy. It's just one big screen. You could have the same effect with 2 x 27" screens side by side, but then you'll have a bezel in the middle.

    What I DO like about my current set-up is that it's very clean and there's not many cables to worry about.

    From Dell:

     
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  10. Axon

    Axon

    I've been using a 65 inch 8k monitor for a month or so and it's fantastic. Like having 4 32 inch 4k monitors in a grid. I trade a ton of equity indexes in the futures market with Sierracharts and I can easily fit over 30 charts onscreen simultaneously. And for around 2 grand you can't beat it. The only caveat being it's HDMI only, meaning no display port so you will need an HDMI 2.1 compliant video card to get 8k and 60 hertz, either an RX 6x00 series AMD or RTX 30x0 series Nvidia card.

    This is the one I got:
    https://www.bestbuy.com/site/tcl-65...-8k-uhd-smart-roku-tv/6470280.p?skuId=6470280

    Note that unlike some other 8k screens meant for TV viewing, the TCL doesn't have the overlay meant to enhance off axis viewing. That overlay is good for the living room so people can see the action from everywhere but it has the downside of smearing text which obviously sucks for our purposes. Samsung is notorious for applying the overlay but these TCL screens do not and in my experience text here is very crisp and sharp at 8k resolution.
     
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    #30     Jan 6, 2022
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