Size may not be everything, but it certainly helps, and a 49-inch ultrawide curved monitor such as this Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ is what you might call a statement piece. Walk into a room that has one of these set up in it, and it will draw your eye, its pull almost gravitational as your curiosity about what it’s like to sit in front of gets the better of you.
And when you do, this huge curved monitor wraps around you to keep itself in your eyeline. Get your viewing distance just right, and having a single panel that can contain all your apps is definitely preferable to two or three screens arranged next to one another as there are no division bars where one screen ends and another begins. Fans of portrait-orientation monitors will feel left out, but the app tiling capabilities of MacOS and Windows 11 come into their own, especially Windows’ ability to snap three apps next to one another.
