External monitor for laptop - clueless
I'm on the market for a monitor to run from my laptop, but I'm thoroughly confused with what's best suited, other that a 27" IPS panel I don't know much.
The hope is to get a larger display that will be easier on the eye than the laptop's 17" @ 1920x1080 & give enough real estate to have multiple windows open / visible at the same time. This is for work "stuff", so refresh rate isn't crucial, but text clarity is important & colour accuracy comes a close second. The monitor will be used by itself (laptop closed), the Quadro graphics card should run most resolutions without difficulty & I have outputs for all the current breed of connections. The monitor will be desktop, so usual viewing distance will be 3 to 6 feet.
My first thought was to go with a 1920x1080 1080P FHD monitor, but I've seen more than a few comments that 1080P can look pretty blocky at 27", so I'm now considering 2560 x 1440.
I'm struggling to see how a screen with the same aspect ratio as the laptop (16:9) is going to give me more real estate though as it's just a "magnification" of what I've got - or can this be tweaked to suit with Windows scaling?
Any advice, words of wisdom or monitor recommendations would be appreciated as I'm thoroughly confused with res, dpi, ratio, scaling & so on.