What's a good sized monitor for old eyes?

[mikeschn]

Please recommend a monitor for me... my eyes are not as good as they used to be. Those microscopic fonts don't work well any more. (I'm near sighted but wear glasses...)

So I'd like something larger and easy on the eyes. I currently have a 22" I-Inc IS220: http://www.highdisplay.com/i-inc-lcd-is220-monitors/
Which is 1680x1050

My Mac Mini will support up to 1920 x 1080

So how big should I go so I can see what you guys are typing? No, I don't want to sit in front of a 60" widescreen TV!!!

Mike...

[droid_ca]

I have a Jensen 12 volt 32 inch tv that is hooked up to mine, it works great. I'm thinking of putting it in my trailer for rainy days

[wagondude]

Just a thought, but could you just make the default font larger?

Edit: Just a thought, could you just make the default font larger? Wanted to be sure you could read it. (BTW I have the same problem sometimes)

[angib]

One of the best things I ever did was get into the habit of buying "computer glasses" - cheap frames with a (single) prescription suited to the intermediate focal length of a PC screen. No more craning my head either sideways or in/out due to using basically inappropriate glasses.

I've found a secondary use for these glasses after I need a new prescription - they make pretty good "workshop glasses" as the focal length there is much the same, plus it's great to work in glasses which I don't really mind if I harm.

And my second top tip? Don't get black frames on your computer glasses in the theory that they won't reflect in the screen - 'cos when you put them down on the black keyboard, you need another set of glasses to find them again......

[mikeschn]

Sure I could make the fonts and things larger... Display 125% or 150%, but I lose too much screen real estate.

And yes I can blow things up in Firefox... ctrl + ctrl - ctrl 0 But those settings don't stick so I have to do it again, and again!

So I'm thinking maybe a 27" monitor...

I do have a pair of glasses specifically for the computer, but I need to get a new prescription. Reading glasses don't work since I am near sighted.

Mike...

[eaglesdare]

i am no tecky person, but my daughters monitor cracked (dog did it), and she hooked the computer up to her tv. could you do that?

[razorback]

Mike
Why not change your eyes so you do not need glasses. I am three weeks into a process called "Gentle Moulding". My wife has been doing this for four years.
You sleep in a pair of therapeutic lenses each night. These lenses gently change the shape of your cornea. I wore trifocals and after only two nights my reading vision returned to 20/20. I will periodically get a new pair of lenses to correct my distance vision back to 20/20.
Check it out.
http://www.gentlemolding.com/

[jstrubberg]

Mike,

I use a 29" monitor at home and love it. I picked mine up on closeout at Best Buy a few years back for a song. The song wasn't "This Way to Cheap Street", but still a song.

[droid_ca]

http://www.my12voltstore.com/32_LED_LCD ... 212led.htm
http://www.jensenrvdirect.com/products/ ... d-tvs.html


Just some food for thought

[jonw]

SI do have a pair of glasses specifically for the computer, but I need to get a new prescription. Reading glasses don't work since I am near sighted.

Mike...

Mike - get yourself a set of "reading" glasses with your prescription for the middle range (the center portion) of tri-focals - perfect for computer monitor distances, reading music from a music stand, etc. Your optometrist should be able to provide you with your diopter and an astigmatism correction Rx for this.

Also, check out http://www.eyebuydirect.com - it's perfect for getting a pair of inexpensive glasses like these where you don't necessarily care if they are designer or not nor what you look like in them.

[48Rob]

Mike,

I wear bifocals for reading/computer (anything from very close to 3' away, further away no glasses are needed.
I measured the exact distance I sit away from the computer, and then had my eye doctor make lenses based on that distance in her office.
She placed the chart at the exact distance then determined the correct prescription.
Took a couple places before I found her to get it right, everyone wants to make reading glasses to the "average" distance, not what I wanted...!

Now, I can look at the screen, and then look down to type, and back and forth as quickly as is possible with no fuzzy areas or other issues.

Rob

[mikeschn]

Okay I'm back from the optometrist with a prescription for computer glasses with the monitor set at 24" away. I'll let you know how it goes!

Mike...

[Rlowell]

I use a flat screen LCD 19" tv and change the font size when I need to.
I can also stick it in the Ketza Kamper when headed out to the woods.

Hope that the new glasses work.


Rod