Monitors

[JWKelly99]

What would be better? 1 29 inch monitor or 2 25inch monitors? There both ultra wide. I have a MacBook air 2015 with 4 gb of ram and 1.6GHz i5 would it run smoothly with 2 monitors?

[J.Munslow]

Once you go dual monitors, you never look back!

[LUUD18]

Since it's a laptop I would go for the 29 inch. 

[JWKelly99]

1 minute ago, LUUD18 said:

Since it's a laptop I would go for the 29 inch. 

Thanks

[LUUD18]

Also be aware of the connections. I think macbook air only has thunderbolt 2.

[JWKelly99]

1 minute ago, LUUD18 said:

Also be aware of the connections. I think macbook air only has thunderbolt 2.

Mines got 1. there is a way i can get an adapter and run two HDMi on it cause its thunderbolt 2

[LUUD18]

Just now, JWKelly99 said:

Mines got 1. there is a way i can get an adapter and run two HDMi on it cause its thunderbolt 2

Make sure to double check it. Adapter don't always work (especially if you have screens bigger then 1080p or more then 60hz).

[GuruMeditationError]

You might not need ultrawide for the second monitor. It's nice to have but you might be able to save some money there. But again, it's a usage case type of thing...more screen real-estate might be good for you, especially if you want to run two open browsers or applications side by side on one monitor.

If there's a chance you might be using them for a 3 monitor setup with a PC sometime in the future it might be worth sticking with matching monitors to add a third matching monitor in the future, but if that's the case ultra-wide might not be what you're looking for, unless you're going to run them side by side in portrait.

 

[JWKelly99]

2 minutes ago, LUUD18 said:

Make sure to double check it. Adapter don't always work (especially if you have screens bigger then 1080p or more then 60hz).

The ones I'm looking at are LG and there only 1080p. Don't wanna spend like £700 on a monitor 

[JWKelly99]

2 minutes ago, GuruMeditationError said:

You might not need ultrawide for the second monitor. It's nice to have but you might be able to save some money there. But again, it's a usage case type of thing...more screen real-estate might be good for you, especially if you want to run two open browsers side by side on one monitor.

If there's a chance you might be using it for a 3 monitor setup with a PC sometime in the future it might be worth sticking with matching monitors to add a third matching monitor in the future, but if that's the case ultra-wide might not  be what you're looking for, unless you're going to run them side by side in portrait.

 

The 2 monitors are the same price as getting 1 of the others

[GuruMeditationError]

1 minute ago, JWKelly99 said:

The 2 monitors are the same price as getting 1 of the others

I'd say if that's the most important metric then go with either, but having a second monitor is really really helpful, I run two and I'd never want to go back to just one. Second monitors are extremely handy.

[WkdPaul]

The thread was moved to the Displays section.