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It's definitely smaller than I was expecting. 18.2" x 19"

My 27" display is almost 25" wide.



According to what you are writing, it is much bigger than your display:

if your display had a 27'' diagonal, and was 25'' wide, it would be 10'' tall. (Which makes little sense: it would be a 5:2 proportion.) So it would have an area of 250 sqi.

Versus the ~350 sqi of the LG. (It is quite a jump: the rounded √2 jump, 5:7, Ax proportion, "do it twice to double".)

The steeper (or flatter) the proportion, the less the area per diagonal size.

But I guess the display for comparison is more likely a 24''x13'' scarce, ~300 sqi.


'if your display had a 27'' diagonal, and was 25'' wide, it would be 10'' tall."

10" tall? I think your math is off.

My monitor is P2175Q. Dimension with bezel 25.2 x 16.7. LCD alone is 23.5 x 13.25".


> I think your math is off

How? Have you verified it? √(625+100) = ~26.9

You brought the measurements of your 16:9 : yes, one of the points was that a 27'' diagonal with a 25'' side cannot be 16:9, and is in fact more like 5:2, as written. Going from 25'' to 23.5'' makes a lot of difference in proportions.


I was all ready to buy one of these until I realised it was the size of two 21” displays stacked, rather than two 27” as the resolution suggests.

I know I wouldn’t be losing any horizontal resolution, but I think 27” is the perfect width for a primary monitor and I wouldn’t really want to go smaller.


Maybe I'm bad at reading, but it would be nice if the page explained "this is the equivalent of two 20-inch 16:9 monitors stacked" instead of having to bust out the Pythagorean theorem.


http://displaywars.com/27,6-inch-d%7B16x18%7D-vs-27-inch-16x...

I love that site for comparing displays across aspect ratios.


The specs panel has Dimension without Stand (W x H x D): 481.5 x 549.5 x 44.9 mm


It's approximately two 21.345-inches stacked, not 20.


Pythagoras's revenge....




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