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Cake day: January 25th, 2025

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  • Yeah that’s why I was asking lol. But for that use its perfect to have it directly hooked up to the PC. And yes, sometimes it can be nice to have a big screen for some random apps.

    I didn’t know my current one could be mounted so I always thought I have to buy a new one before I can even think about an arm. But now trying the arm first with what I have sounds more reasonable.

    But idk which arm to buy now lol. I think two separate arms with gas springs are more flexible but it might look weird if I end up using only one. Using a vertical tube allows attaching arms as you need but I think it restricts the vertical alignment more than two separate arms. Anyway, I have to figure that out somehow. Thanks a lot!


  • Yeah I think I will do that. I will get a double monitor arm and use my current monitor (it has the screwholes for VESA, I just found out) and use that for a bit to test out the tilting and turning and height change. Then I will try to figure out if I want a 27" or just go with a 24".

    I saw a 24" IPS 1440p 180Hz screen for AOC so I will keep that saved for now.



  • Thanks for the detailed response.

    I think I will try to use my current screen with a monitor arm to see how I like it and think about the screen size and resolution for a bit longer. But I think two smaller screens allow more versatility with turning and so on. But you probably want to have the same resolution and screen size if you have two screens, even if one is vertical, right? Otherwise you probably get weird jumps when you move the mouse across the border. And yes, definitely small beszels lol

    While replying I realized that I heard that you can’t easily split an HDMI signal. So do you know how to easily use two screens with a laptop? Probably you need an USB-C dock with two HDMI ports for that. I should really think about that before settling for a possibility.



  • Thank you very much, my desk can be moved so no problem there. I did consider the shelf but I read comments that very wide feet are too wide for some shelfs so you are limited by the shelf.

    My question about ultrawide (except that they are out of my budget) is, how do you handle games that won’t scale? Do you just center it and live with black parts left and right? But an IPS panel can’t deliver real black so is it no distracting to have dark-grey bars left and right of your game?



  • Very true, this is definitely easier with two physical screens. Will you swap your 4K TV out and just use the two 1080p monitors instead?

    I just checked and my current older monitor does allow a VESA adapter so I might pick up a monitor arm for now and see how I like the possibility to tilt and turn my screen and think about the size and resolution for a bit longer.





  • Thank you very much! With the CPU generation I was aiming at the iGPU that comes with the CPU. I figured that the CPU is usually not the bottleneck in laptops.

    I did not know that about the system memory, thanks a lot.

    Core 100 is another CPU family I suppose? And AMD laptops are a rare find, unfortunately.