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4K Is For Programmers

An anonymous reader writes "The 4K television revolution is upon us, and nobody is impressed. Most users seem content to wait until there's actually something to watch on these ultra-high-res displays, and also for the price to come down. However, Brian Hauer has written an article promoting a non-standard use for these displays. His office just got a 39", 3840x2160 display for each of their programmers' workstations. He now confidently declares, 'For the time being, there is no single higher-productivity display for a programmer.' Hauer explains: 'Four editors side-by-side each with over a hundred lines of code, and enough room to spare for a project navigator, console, and debugger. Enough room to visualize the back-end service code, the HTML template, the style-sheet, the client-side script, and the finished result in a web browser — all at once without one press of Alt-tab.'"

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  1. Re:39" display for workstations? by jddeluxe · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you RTFA you'd find that these are Seiki 4K unit that marked down to $500 each after Xmas, making them more cost effective than a multiple monitor setup

  2. Re:39" display for workstations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    No. They are $500. It's right in the article.

    Here. Buy one.

    http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch-Ultra/dp/B00DOPGO2G

  3. Re:39" display for workstations? by crashcy · · Score: 5, Informative
    From TFA:

    At $500 a piece

    we had been using antiquated pairs of 19-inch monitors. An upgrade was needed

    It's amazing how irrelevant many comments become after you RTFA.