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Likely to be the best £225 I've spent. Ultrawide is perfect for gaming, but 3:2 is the play for laptops.
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Same, ultrawide is only awesome if you do everything in windows and arrange things. Which in turn brings up the question, why not just put 3 monitors side-by-side, play on the middle one in 16:9 and avoid all the software issues, then still have that huge horizontal space for multitasking?
Sure it's not a big downside, but I also just don't see the upside of it. Plus I can always soft-connect the 3 screens to show one game across all three of them.
Not a fair comparison at all though. A 34” 1440p UW is basically like taking a 27” 1440p and adding another ~66% to the original width. It’s physically smaller than two 16:9 monitors of comparable density.
3 monitors side by side takes up a lot more space. The 2x23” I have stacked on top of my 34” ultrawide are already much wider than the UW. I couldn’t fit three monitors on my larger than average desk made out of an IKEA tabletop, without removing my speakers and having the side monitors overhang.
Fair, and of course that's the ultimate consideration in the end, since any monitor choice has to fit into where you put it. I went to a 32" 1440p center + 2x 22" 1080p sides (pixel size is identical, hence that specific setup) which works better for me due to the versatility, and it just perfectly fits the Ikea desk I have. 😅 But I can understand why someone especially limited in stand-space would go for a single monitor.
I do think multi-setups are inherently more versatile, plus they avoid the built-in occassional software issues with ultrawide-incompatibility.
I’ve yet to hit that second issue about compatibility in 4 years using mine with a combination of Mac, Windows 10/11 and Linux machines. But yes, agreed about that first point. It’s easier to rearrange a couple of physical screens than mess around with software.