Which 19'/20' LCD for programmer?

[SONYFX]

Well I have to stare at the screen 8-10 hours a day.

In my office we have Dell LCD but it hurts my eyes because it's too bright no matter how I adjust it.

I have Samsung 172T at home, it works great and is very easy on the eye.

So should I go with Samsung or there are something better?

 

[mrzed]

First, if you are programming on a single monitor, do whatever you can to upgrade to duals. I cannot imagine working on a single anymore, and programming is only a minor part of my job.

Second do not get a 19". AFAIK, all 19" are still 1280*1024, the largest pixels of any standard LCD display.

A good 20" @1600*1200 will be fine. I like my dual Samsung 204T's at work. I've got them running at 20% brightness. Some LCD's I've seen are always too bright.

Pay attention to your room/task lighting too. Eyestrain is caused by a combination of the room/monitor.

 

[SONYFX]

Originally posted by: mrzed
First, if you are programming on a single monitor, do whatever you can to upgrade to duals. I cannot imagine working on a single anymore, and programming is only a minor part of my job.

Second do not get a 19". AFAIK, all 19" are still 1280*1024, the largest pixels of any standard LCD display.

A good 20" @1600*1200 will be fine. I like my dual Samsung 204T's at work. I've got them running at 20% brightness. Some LCD's I've seen are always too bright.

Pay attention to your room/task lighting too. Eyestrain is caused by a combination of the room/monitor.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone has more comments?

 

[ojingoh]

i use 2 monitors at work, one to debug and one to code. wide is nice on the coding side mainly because all the open tabs the IDE has. not a dealbreaker though, i guess depending on your language you can just indent a lot.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: SONYFX

Originally posted by: mrzed
First, if you are programming on a single monitor, do whatever you can to upgrade to duals. I cannot imagine working on a single anymore, and programming is only a minor part of my job.

Second do not get a 19". AFAIK, all 19" are still 1280*1024, the largest pixels of any standard LCD display.

A good 20" @1600*1200 will be fine. I like my dual Samsung 204T's at work. I've got them running at 20% brightness. Some LCD's I've seen are always too bright.

Pay attention to your room/task lighting too. Eyestrain is caused by a combination of the room/monitor.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone has more comments?

I'm using 204B, similar to 204T: same resolution, albeit not so great color reproduction, but dirt cheap. Probably best LCD deal right now. It is perfect for programming. In my opinion, 1600x1200 is one of best resolutions for that purpose.
Why?
Programming doesn't benefit from widescreen (although having two source codes side by side is helpful, but is manageable with 1600x1200). Widescreens suffer from having too low height. The more code you can fit on screen, the better. Thus 4:3 aspect ratio is probably the best- widescreen will left you with large protion of screen unused.

And I concur, 19" and 1280x1024 and 0.292mm pixel pitch is bad. 19" are good only for internet, pron and games.