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LG 40" Curved Ultrawide: 6 month impressions as a SWE in 2024
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hey if you're interested in this 40-in
5K LG display curved screen um stick
around because we're going to be talking
about how I've been using it for the
past 6 months and how it's increased my
productivity and also been very
ergonomic helped me with some neck pain
and yeah let's jump into it um I've
tried like the 49 in Samsung display
before and it was absolutely terrible in
my opinion it was not only was it too
big to where that I had to like look
around way too often
but the pixels per inch were much lower
it was about 109 PPI which is what
pixels per inch is and that's the
density of the
pixels and so you can really see that
it's pretty blurry whenever you look at
that 49 in display um when compared to
this 40in uh LG um not only is the
display smaller but um they pack in more
pixels so it ends up being about 139
pixels per inch and I can't really tell
the difference between this Monitor and
my MacBook Pro screen and uh the MacBook
Pro screen for reference is 245 pixels
per inch whereas this uh LG is um
139 so it's almost almost 140 and it
looks really crisp and I have no
complaints that that was the main
complaint about the Samsung screens that
I had before and I've actually bought in
returned a few of them I I also bought
the 38 inch LG before and returned it as
well
because it just was not crisp enough for
me and I really enjoy having crisp text
especially because I'm a software
engineer so um I like to be able to
luxuriously read through my code I
suppose so what other benefits can you
expect from a monitor like this well um
in idees for example like jet brains and
with this screen I had the option of
either having one massive uh window to
view my code code to even if the the
lines of code stretch to the end I can
still I can read them another area that
you can expect to see benefits is uh
whenever you look at for example
spreadsheets spreadsheets are just a
dream whenever you use a widescreen and
also video editing video editing is
incredible whenever you can just see the
entire timeline it has plenty of ports
in the back so I actually have an Xbox
plugged into it a PS5 um and a laptop
plugged into it and it's really easy to
use the um the knob to switch between
the the three things or it can also
detect whenever something is turned on
uh and automatically switch as well as
for NE as for negatives I'm not as for
negatives there aren't really many to
speak of but I would say I mean the
price it's pretty expensive um but if
you're investing into your comfort and
what you do for a living I'm sure you
make enough to be able to cover
something like
this um another negative would be
whenever you're in a zoom meeting and
you have to share your screen um it is a
little bit difficult to um share the
entire screen so some most people don't
have an ultra wide screen so my solution
is that I use this application called
rectangle Pro and I have it partitioned
so that I have a short cut that um takes
up 2/3 of my screen and that's pretty
much the size of a normal screen and
that makes it readable for everybody it
is a very heavy monitor so luckily it
has a um vs V SAA mount in the back
unlike some of the um Samsung monitors
that require some like special adapter
this I I just bought purchased the arm
off of Amazon uh put it onto the wall
and it has this articulating arm that's
really useful I really think this is the
best value ultrawide monitor on the
market especially for software engineers
and PE people that are creative and if
you pick one up let me know in the
comments uh congratulations I hope you
enjoy it see you next time
5K LG display curved screen um stick
around because we're going to be talking
about how I've been using it for the
past 6 months and how it's increased my
productivity and also been very
ergonomic helped me with some neck pain
and yeah let's jump into it um I've
tried like the 49 in Samsung display
before and it was absolutely terrible in
my opinion it was not only was it too
big to where that I had to like look
around way too often
but the pixels per inch were much lower
it was about 109 PPI which is what
pixels per inch is and that's the
density of the
pixels and so you can really see that
it's pretty blurry whenever you look at
that 49 in display um when compared to
this 40in uh LG um not only is the
display smaller but um they pack in more
pixels so it ends up being about 139
pixels per inch and I can't really tell
the difference between this Monitor and
my MacBook Pro screen and uh the MacBook
Pro screen for reference is 245 pixels
per inch whereas this uh LG is um
139 so it's almost almost 140 and it
looks really crisp and I have no
complaints that that was the main
complaint about the Samsung screens that
I had before and I've actually bought in
returned a few of them I I also bought
the 38 inch LG before and returned it as
well
because it just was not crisp enough for
me and I really enjoy having crisp text
especially because I'm a software
engineer so um I like to be able to
luxuriously read through my code I
suppose so what other benefits can you
expect from a monitor like this well um
in idees for example like jet brains and
with this screen I had the option of
either having one massive uh window to
view my code code to even if the the
lines of code stretch to the end I can
still I can read them another area that
you can expect to see benefits is uh
whenever you look at for example
spreadsheets spreadsheets are just a
dream whenever you use a widescreen and
also video editing video editing is
incredible whenever you can just see the
entire timeline it has plenty of ports
in the back so I actually have an Xbox
plugged into it a PS5 um and a laptop
plugged into it and it's really easy to
use the um the knob to switch between
the the three things or it can also
detect whenever something is turned on
uh and automatically switch as well as
for NE as for negatives I'm not as for
negatives there aren't really many to
speak of but I would say I mean the
price it's pretty expensive um but if
you're investing into your comfort and
what you do for a living I'm sure you
make enough to be able to cover
something like
this um another negative would be
whenever you're in a zoom meeting and
you have to share your screen um it is a
little bit difficult to um share the
entire screen so some most people don't
have an ultra wide screen so my solution
is that I use this application called
rectangle Pro and I have it partitioned
so that I have a short cut that um takes
up 2/3 of my screen and that's pretty
much the size of a normal screen and
that makes it readable for everybody it
is a very heavy monitor so luckily it
has a um vs V SAA mount in the back
unlike some of the um Samsung monitors
that require some like special adapter
this I I just bought purchased the arm
off of Amazon uh put it onto the wall
and it has this articulating arm that's
really useful I really think this is the
best value ultrawide monitor on the
market especially for software engineers
and PE people that are creative and if
you pick one up let me know in the
comments uh congratulations I hope you
enjoy it see you next time