I recently replaced a stationary laptop (no charge, had to be plugged in to be used) with a desktop that I built, and I'd been looking into the best monitor setup for it. Part of the point of this was to make it easier to work from my company laptop on days that I was working from home. I use two 19" 4:3 monitors at work and wanted similar screen real estate at home. But if I bought two monitors, it would kill it for movies and media. I was toying with the idea of an ultrawide (21:9), but they're generally expensive, so I was mostly focused on something more like a 27" 16:9 monitor.
Then last week I see that Bestbuy had the
LG 29UM57 for $199 ($100 off the normal price of $299). What's more, they had open box for even less. I took the plunge and it came out to $178.54.
Got the monitor yesterday after an initial shipping snafu, and all I can say is - wow! This thing is nuts. They also give you some useful software: on program for screen splitting (emulating multiple monitors) - though Windows 10 does a really good job with window snapping anyway - and another as sort of a KVM emulator (use one keyboard/monitor/mouse to switch between 2 computers).
Still have to mount it, but I'm pretty excited about it.