From my experience, a lot of vertical scrolling can get a bit irritating, especially when the slider has barely any surface area (because the vertical size of the doc is so large).

However, any horizontal scrolling whatsoever tends to be really annoying. So... yeah, I'll stick with my widescreens for most situations.

>>However, any horizontal scrolling whatsoever tends to be really annoying. So... yeah, I'll stick with my widescreens for most situations.<<

hmmm u contradicted yourself (unless u mixed up the terms live davepermen did)
another point look at your mouse in the middle theres a mouse wheel it tends to scroll UP/DOWN not left/right

I wonder why that is?

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Quote: Original post by Fiddler
and the rest of the TN displays listed here (both in quality and price ;) ).

For the record, the Dell monitor I linked to is an IPS as well and has, as I recall, a better viewing angle by a few degrees (physical styling is pretty much the same as well) with what, as I recall, is the same colour gaument and contrast levels.

Indeed, the U2410 is a very good, relatively inexpensive IPS monitor (like the HP2475w). Both seem to use LG panels with very similar capabilities and both vendors seem to have similar guarantees and return policies. There's simply no comparison between monitors such as those and your typical 6bit Samsungs, Acers and the likes.

Quote: Yeah, Dell have very good high end monitor indeed and thats why if I was going to pick up a 24" monitor today I'd head right on back to them without a second thought on the matter.

Depends on the price actually. I think you can find better monitors than Dells on the low end (Benq used to have an excellent line named G2400, IIRC) and the very high end (Nec's 2490WUXi line is unbeatable), but they make some of the bestIPS monitors you can find at a reasonable price.

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Studies have shown that reading speed and comprehension are higher (slightly) when you have short paragraphs and narrow columns.

Well, it also says that that subjects "tend to abandon the ends of longer paragraphs," and so could the slightly improved reading spead be a direct result of this? The abstract also mentions that there are a number of studies that seem to conflict on the matter.

Anyway, in my case I'm almost certain that I actually read faster on a wider monitor. Maybe it's because, unlike some people, I don't really read magazines or newspapers so I'm not used to thin formatting. The main thing I notice is that on a wider monitor my focus is dramatically improved because paragraphs "look shorter."

And for any other kind of multimedia, like games or movies, it's virtually necessary to have a monitor that is wider than it is tall. Like I said before, I think the reason for this is that our eyes are placed horizontally relative to each other, so a wider monitor matches with our wider field of view.

Quote: >>However, any horizontal scrolling whatsoever tends to be really annoying. So... yeah, I'll stick with my widescreens for most situations.<<

hmmm u contradicted yourself (unless u mixed up the terms live davepermen did)
another point look at your mouse in the middle theres a mouse wheel it tends to scroll UP/DOWN not left/right

I wonder why that is?

I'm pretty sure you're confused. A wider monitor definitely results in less horizontal (that is "left/right") scrolling.