What screen do you have now? A CRT? If so even a "normal" LCD would be softer on your eyes. I've seen people get sunburns from sitting in front of CRT's for hours on end. Though I've also seen sunburns happen in front of a laptop LCD (but that's because they were outside using it )
BTW, does anyone know if there's a "real" LED screen, or are they all simply LED backlit with normal LCD in the front? The "older" LCD technology simply had a florescent light-source behind the LCD glass. Most (at least all that I've seen) LED screens have simply replaced that light source with a bank of LED's. I guess making Red Green & Blue LED's small and "sardined" enough to get a decent resolution would just be too exorbitant at present.
Anyhow, about the resolution/size that's a bit of a personal preference. It greatly depends on several factors:
- What type of work do you do on your PC? Lots of fine graphics or just text - or somewhere in between?
- How is your focus at screen distance? Do you need glasses to read. Remember higher resolution would make for smaller text, and setting the "larger" text fonts on windows doesn't always solve this in all cases.
- What size monitor are you going for: http://thescreamonline.com/technolog...nitor_res.html
- How far away do you sit from your monitor - further is better for your eyes (not to mention your back, usually 500mm to 800mm should be around right)? Similar applies as when choosing a TV: http://myhometheater.homestead.com/v...alculator.html
My office LCD is a 19" at 1680x1050, my laptop 17" @ 1440x900, and my personal LED/LCD 23" @ 1920x1080. The laptop is by necessity quite close to me, but the other 2 screens are pushed as far back on the table as they can go - this then asks for a larger screen size. Fortunately my eyes are still good so I don't have to fiddle with larger text fonts.
Mainly I work on extremely fine graphics - CAD drawings, therefore I need as much resolution as possible. Some people in my line tend to go for 2 or more screens attached to the same PC so they can move the toolbars and such to the 2nd - maximizing the drawing area. But that's probably a "niche" idea, very seldom needed by the "average" user.
Another thing you may want to look out for is the viewing angle. This is also a preference. With a TV you want an angle as large as possible (closest to 180 degrees) so you can view the screen obliquely just as well as you would perpendicularly. With PC monitors you may want some privacy, so you don't want people seeing what you're doing all the time - in such case you're looking for as small as possible view angle. Where you fit into this is up to you.
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