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gjm comments on Ergonomics Revisited - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 24 April 2014 10:47:02PM 1 point [-]

What extra screen space? I fear you may have been taken in by the monitor marketers' cunning ruse of measuring size in (linear) inches.

A 39" monitor with 16:9 aspect ratio is 34" x 19" and has an area of 650 square inches.

A 22" monitor with 18:9 aspect ratio is 19" x 11" and has an area of 207 square inches.

So one of the former has considerably more screen space than two of the latter.

Comment author: joaolkf 24 May 2014 01:54:53AM *  0 points [-]

Human's lateral visual search is considerably more efficient than horizontal. 414 spreaded more laterally beats regular 650. There are ultra-wide huge screens, of course, but they weren't cheaper per inches than two monitors when I did my research 6 months ago.