Monitor(s) for basic office use

[fini]

My father's asked me to spec up a new screen or screens for him as he's finding his Surface Pro (4th gen) screen too small. Despite being retired he still does some consultancy work so basically uses the computer for MS Word, Excel and web browsing. The Surface Pro outputs via a single mini displayport (1.4) so if going for multiple monitors then I figure they'll need mini displayport on them. Effectively, the larger the screen the better and 4k feels unneccesary, though going multi-monitor's probably a good idea so he doesn't have to mess around with window snapping.  

 

Budget wise, he's looking up to £750. 

 

I've been thinking that two Dell U2717d's might be a good fit. Any other recommendations?

[dizmo]

Personally with that budget I'd go with something like two of these:

https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/product/CmL48d/aoc-u3277fwq-315-3840x2160-60hz-monitor-u3277fwq

 

4k gives you more potential screen real estate, and larger monitors are always nicer especially for spreadsheets.

[fini]

That monitor doesn’t look like it has mini (or regular) display port out and so it doesn’t look like he’d be able to run 2 of them daisy-chained?

[Bartholomew]

2 hours ago, fini said:

My father's asked me to spec up a new screen or screens for him as he's finding his Surface Pro (4th gen) screen too small. Despite being retired he still does some consultancy work so basically uses the computer for MS Word, Excel and web browsing. The Surface Pro outputs via a single mini displayport (1.4) so if going for multiple monitors then I figure they'll need mini displayport on them. Effectively, the larger the screen the better and 4k feels unneccesary, though going multi-monitor's probably a good idea so he doesn't have to mess around with window snapping.  

 

Budget wise, he's looking up to £750. 

 

I've been thinking that two Dell U2717d's might be a good fit. Any other recommendations?

Samsung s27h850, its 1440p; very good ips with excellent color, fully adjustable ergonomics (important to old f@rts like me lol). Its a older model that with a bit of luck can be found cheap. Thus 2x 27" (to me at least) is a lot of screenestate; withou having hardware connected to it push fi 2x 4k pixeks.

 

It can be connected using mini dp to dp cable and just daisy using dp from there, also has usb hub (c in, 2x normal out).

 

Likely not relevant in this case but perhaps interesting in general, it also has 48-78hz freesync (also reports as 75hz screen when fs turned on, and works with my rtx gsync), That feature is curious at least (and printed nowhere on the box etc) as its positioned by sgamsung as a business office monitor lol.