I'm thinking about buying a 4K, ~28- to 30-something inch flatscreen to work on at home. I'd be attaching it sometimes to my work laptop when working at my job from home, sometimes to my own lap- or desktop computer (see separate post). Development work and Web browsing, not much gaming (if any at all), so response time is a low priority. No graphic design either (except for the occasional icon or such), so super-hyper-colour-accuracy and stuff also not a priority.

So, basically, I'm looking for good modern connectors, reasonable picture quality, and reasonable price... Where "reasonable" doesn't necessarily mean really shitty and cheapskate -- I can afford something solid-quality; it's just that I don't feel like paying silly prices for silly stuff I won't need.

Recommendations?

43" is bigger than our fricking TV; no way I could put that somewhere sensible. Also, of course, price. But yeah, sure, if I were made of money and had an office to myself...

... https://www.displayspecifications.com/en/model/b5661cd4 [1] just today. Set it up with my Little Red Beauty[2] to begin with. And yes, thank you Other Scott, the built-in Intel graphics seem up to driving at least one 4K screen. Hm, gotta bring it in to work and try it with two of the big screens in the "ETL lab" at once. Wife (predictably) livid, "Where are you going to put that thing?! It's bigger than our living-room TV!". Yeah, well, sorry honey, but with my increasingly presbyopic eyes, stuff was looking a tad small on my 4K 32" monitor at work, so...

My official excuse is I needed this in case we're ordered to work from home in Official Corona Panic, but if that were my real reason... Wouldn't I have set it up from my work laptop[3] first? :-) That's next, though, perhaps tomorrow: I already have the Craptop[3] here, since I was WFH on Friday -- although that's ordinarily next-to-impossible on just the lappy screen -- and during the day, got a department-wide email reminding everyone to take their laptops home with them for the weekend, just in case we'd need to WFH on Monday... Or if it became mandatory.


1: So, so much for http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/post/429086/

2: http://forum.iwethey.org/forum/post/431349/

3: The boring corporate-silver anally-locked-down HP.

Not on the stand that came with it. 200x200 mm VESA attachment points on the back, so coud of course be mounted on something pivotty. Feels like you won't adjust a humongo-fucker like this all the time, so doesn't much matter, IMO. Except if you have a height-adjustable desk under it, then you might want to tilt it a bit depending on height. Can't recall degrees of tilt and swivel, feels like "enough"; maybe exact data are on that specs site I linked?

Unless you meant softwarely and resolutionarily? Haven't got much into that yet, beyond selecting the input port I'd put a lead into. AFAIK its particular party trick, its "USP", is that you can put four inputs simultaneously on it and it splits up and pretends to be four separate 1920x1080 screens. Dunno how useful that will be; maybe.