This is a good and accurate article about monitors.

To sum things up, I don’t see a problem with 24” 4k displays or even 27” displays. I use both with macOS and love both, never had any problems. Of course, 5k or 6k would be better, but those go in the “nice to have” category. 4k is a must-have, an absolute minimum for anyone working with text.

Agreed. If you don’t have at least a 4K display, and you work with text routinely, then you are just screwing yourself and your eyes. And who wants to be screwed in the eye?! No one, that’s who.

I’m always flummoxed by people who use absolutely shitty eye-destroying monitors to save $100 over five years. What a waste.

absolutely losing my shit that this is the official, professional documentation pic.twitter.com/75qJc4ysK7

— Gravis™ (@gravislizard) September 28, 2020

Yep, that’s the standard term of art in infrastructure for this. Has been used for 30+ years.

I’m sure all the fussypants people will want to change it because if offends someone or other, but it’s been around a long time.

I know they are not, but when I hear people assert they cannot tell the difference between 4K, 5K and low-res 1080p and below (etc.) I just think they have to be lying.

The difference is so obvious and plain to me that…how could you not be able to tell? It’s like having a kitten and a T. Rex in front of you and saying, “These look the same to me. No difference at all.”

Human visual systems just aren’t that different. I don’t have Superman eyes. What’s going on here? (And yes I can tell reliably even when I don’t know what the monitor is.)