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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 3870434" data-attributes="member: 478">Hiyas!I'm planning to get a second display (the one I got is 20" 1600x1200).Now I have three options, and am wondering, which one I should choose, so looking for some further insight. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />1) Get the exact one I already got a second time.2) Get a 20" or 22" widescreen with 1680x1050 resolution.3) Get a 24" widescreen with 1920x1200 resolution.I would prefer a widescreen monitor for my second one, since it is better for some uses (like watching DVDs; I don't have a seperate DVD player or even a decent TV, as I do not watch TV except on extremely rare occasions), and so I would have one each to choose from, in addition to the immediate benefit of having a much bigger desktop area (which would be useful, as I tend to open multiple windows with multiple applications and almost never use full-screen on any application other than games).Now the problem is, there is no display (at least I havn't found one) with comparable size (height mostly) and a 1920x1200 resolution (even the 22" ones only have the lower 1680x1050 resolution), so I'm looking at using two displays with different resolutions (height is mostly important here, obviously).Maybe some of you have tried this already and could give me some insight, whether it worked out ok, or was rather irritating, when using a standard and a widescreen display together.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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