Review Roundup: Get a bigger picture with an ultrawide 29-inch display
When you’re multitasking like mad, a standard-aspect-ratio monitor can’t provide enough real estate to display every open window without many of them overlapping and obscuring one another. For this reason alone, most Macworld editors and designers use more than one display. Constantly rearranging multiple browser, text editor, chat, and photo-editing windows as you search for the one you need saps productivity and invites frustration.
But using multiple displays isn’t a panacea, either. First, you need a graphics card that can meet the demands you may have for two displays. Second, multiple video and power cables add clutter to your work environment. Third—and most important—a gap between the displays is inevitable, no matter how carefully you arrange them. Even the narrowest bezel creates a blind spot as your mouse pointer crosses from screen to screen.
The new 29-inch, ultrawide displays featured here—each delivering a resolution of 2560 by 1080 pixels on a single screen—are designed to take the place of two smaller monitors. Using one longer monitor instead of two smaller ones lets you use a single connection from your computer and removes the problem of pesky bezels that break your concentration as your eyes scan from left to right across the screen. Ultrawide displays are just the ticket for productivity apps, and they’re not bad for gaming, either.
The contenders
Four ultrawide displays recently passed through our Macworld Lab: the Dell UltraSharp U2913WM, the AOC Q2963PM, the NEC MultiSync EA294WMi, and the LG 29EA93P Ultra-wide IPS Monitor. Each display measures 29 inches diagonally and has an aspect ratio of 21:9. That’s much wider than the 16:9 and 16:10 aspect ratios you’ll find on more-conventional monitors—and of course vastly wider than the 4:3 aspect ratio that old-school displays deliver.
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