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Tom’s Guide
Tom’s Guide
Technology
Anthony Spadafora

I ditched my dual-monitor setup for a single 40-inch ultrawide — and two screens aren’t better than one

A person working on the Innocn 40C1U ultrawide monitor at their desk.

There’s no ideal desk setup that works for everyone. While one person might be content with a laptop or a single monitor, another might want multiple monitors. Likewise, your old desk setup might have been perfect at the time but now, it no longer meets your needs.

As someone who builds desk setups for a living, I’m constantly trying out new configurations when it comes to how many displays I have and what’s driving them. Although I spent years using a single ultrawide monitor by itself, I later added a portable monitor underneath it specifically to keep up with work chats. Of course, I wasn’t done there.

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