So I just got a promotion, and I'm looking to purchase a new monitor or two for work. What do you guys recommend as a good dev monitor? Also, the ability to rotate 90 degrees is a plus(I like that idea for a dedicated browser and documentation monitor).
Look into dell monitors. They are amazing. I'm currently using a 1080p dell monitor at home and it's great to code on (only down fall, no height adjustment or screen rotation, but I tend to code long ways, F-U people who break function calls into multi line for each argument). I also use to use a dell when I worked at XXXXXXXXXXX that was great for allowing both height adjustment and being able to rotate it.
The Dells give you a lot of bang for the buck, and can rotate. I have two setups: 30" (2560x1920 at home) and 2 x 24" (2400x1920) at work. I like the 30" better. The rotated monitors are good if you really, really like looking at long blocks of code and logs. But the bar in the middle gets annoying. Don't bother w/ something that handles 15khz. You will lose far more useful benefits for features you will most likely never get to utilize.
Sad but true. You'd probably be looking at an enormous CRT and at a relatively low max resolution. If you go with a digital set you've got all the associated analogue-to-digital conversion issues. If 15.6kHz is important for your dev work, i.e. if you're developing games for the Wii (being the only console to still rely solely on SD resolutions over analogue signal), I guess you'd probably want to have separate monitor/s for QA. In the unlikely event that Wii is your target platform you'll know all this already, though...
If you're doing any serious work, you want a 4:3 monitor. So try the 20-inch Samsung SyncMaster 204T. (or if you have much more cash to spare, the 21-inch 214T) It can be rotated too.
I saw a 22-ish monitor that in that resolution once. I believe it was $10k. I do nothing but serious work on 1 to 4 16:9's.
When I worked at Ubi, for a while all coders got 1 16x9 LCD and 1 4x3 CRT. Everybody prefered working on the LCD. Later when I moved to a more $$$ friendly team we all got 2 16x9 LCDs. Great stuff!!
At work we get new hardware in periodic waves to stay current with the tech. Currently I have dual widescreen monitors. One is Thinkvision, one is a Samsung SyncMaster. I'm hoping to get another Thinkvision to round out the pair and give the Samsung away to someone else, but it's hard to find someone with a Thinkvision they don't want (^_^);
Ive always seen mismatched LCD's given to teams. Cheap ass companies always wait for the complaint, then put 2 different displays on peoples desks. They dont even match em...just for the yap shut that they have 2.
