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I love my 34" ultra wide monitor

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I love monitors. I already have a  27" monitor and a 30" monitors , and now I've added t he dell 34" . It's huge, elegant, and has all the ports a geek could dream of.  Ultra wide are sold as being amazing for productivity and movie watching.   I don't disagree, but there are a few gotchas you should know about.  For productivity ultra wides are extolled as the equivalent of two monitors side by side.  For me, the width of the ultra wide is a bit shy of what I'd like for two windows side by side.   Don't get me wrong, it's doable, but with my old eyes and jacked up font sized, half a 34" monitor wide is too skinny a window.     I usually end up make one window take up 2/3s of the screen and another window take up 1/3.  It's too bad the windows snap feature doesn't allow you to do this automatically. If you have a good software solution for this holler.  For movies, especially ones available in 21:9 the 34" ultra wid