Widescreen Preference

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EssKayKay

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We’re looking at purchasing numerous new flat panel monitors for our CAD stations (replacing CRT’s). All systems are dual monitor which would both be replaced (i.e., each station would have two monitors). I have a couple questions.

1. Other than screen space, is there an advantage/disadvantage to 22” widescreen vs. 20” standard?

2. If we go widescreen, we’re looking at either Samsung 2243BWX or ViewSonic VG2230WM. Does anyone have a preference to either of these?

Thanks,
SKK
 
my experience with CAD and widescreen -
depends on the type of stuff you're doing. When I was learning CAD at first, we made small widgets on classroom computers, which were standard aspect ratio.
When we made buildings, houses, etc which were longer, finishing the projects at home with my 1280x800 screen was easier.
Overall, I prefer standard aspect ratio screens for AutoCAD simply because the workspace panels are all generally square and since the command prompt area is on the bottom of the screen, it makes the panels even narrower on a widescreen. The one place where widescreen has been good is when I run 3 and 5 display panels where one of them is vertical, it gives it more width.

but that's more about CAD rather than the scerens. I don't think there is much difference between a 22" and 20" screen aside from the DPI of the screen themselves, though I'm not well versed in them.
 
All 22 inchers are 1680x1050 low screens (except WUXGA Lenovo L220x) so 20" 1600x1200 would be more sensible.

Also are colour/brightness uniformity important?
TNs lack both by having top darker when looked straight on and colour shift coming from same lack of vertical viewing angle.
 
Thanks guys.

What about the difference (advantage/disadvantage) between the Samsung 2243BWX vs. ViewSonic VG2230WM? Any suggestions?

SKK
 
I think two 4:3 20" are certainly better (and often more expensive) than two 16:10 22". Just imagine you have two nearly square monitors or two slim monitors creating something like "earthworm" :)
There are also other possible combinations, one would be to use a single 24"-30" monitor.

As for the monitors you mentioned, they are both TN panels. Samsung have better reputation than ViewSonic.

Anyway, how much are you prepared to spend for each "station"?
 
From what I can tell, i think getting a single, large, monitor would be better for CAD stations.
My reasoning is this - When working with CAD, I rarely am doing anything else at the same time, even at home. So at a computer lab, I doubt I would be doing anything on a second monitor.

so I would actually vote for a single 24" screen (or 26") or maybe two 20" monitors in portrait with a desktop profile set to simulate a single monitor (nvidia, matrox multi-monitor drivers support this)
 
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