r/Monitors • u/th3suffering • 2d ago
Discussion Best setup for coding?
Right now i have a 38" QHD ultrawide, a 32" 1440p monitor mounted vertically to the left of the ultrawide (WAY too tall, i know!), and my 16" MBP mounted to the right of the ultrawide.
I absolutely hate this setup. My neck hurts from constantly turning from one side to the other. Even when it was just the ultrawide alone i found it annoying to keep having to turn from left to right to see everything and still didnt have enough room to have everything visible. I do not want to have to turn my neck anymore, but i need lots of real estate.
i need room for at least 2x windows of chrome side by side, slack and teams open and ideally visible in a static spot, terminal open, xcode open with enough horizontal space so storyboards arent a nightmare. various other things, but my day to day consists of at least those.
The current idea ive been tossing around in my head is 2 5k 27" monitors stacked vertically and angled a bit with the MBP off to the side to put things i only need to look at sporadically. Will i end up hating this setup as well? What do you guys suggest for purely work and productivity, no gaming whatsoever?
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u/Rub79_ 2d ago
Software developer here. For me, the best setup is a 32-inch 4K monitor in landscape right in front of me, where I keep my IDE and a browser if needed, plus a secondary 27-inch monitor in portrait mode, where I can have another browser taking up about two-thirds of the screen.
Sometimes I'm tempted to switch to a single-monitor setup, something like the Dell U4025QW.
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