Ultimate monitor for your RV - LG 45GX950A-B 45-inch 5K2K curved monitor

[MemoriesByTheMile]

How well do these work for all day use when they don’t have height adjustments? Or would you put some books or other boost under them?

Imagining the neck pain or wrist pain from having both keyboard and monitor sitting on the same horizontal plane.

Still dragging along a 27” but changed from a Dell Ultrasharp to the Apple studio monitor and absolutely love it. When at home use both the studio monitor and a 10+ year old Apple Cinema that still works great and is easy on my eyes.

The technical specs look good on this new portable unit.

Always look forward to vicariously trying out new tech toys through you - saves me tons of $ since I no longer need to do it myself. I sooo appreciate you all taking the hit for all the rest of us.

 

[Neal]

I put it below center of my 45in monitor, works well for my need. The secondary use for me and probably going with a second one would be a laptop and having one left and right for a 3 monitor setup.

 

[DennisT]

Actually quite well. Wife has been using the 17 inch 1080 for over a year working on a project for the company she retired from.

Same height as her laptop and the two monitor setup works well.

 

[GypsyR]

Everyone has their tastes. If it were me doing things that absolutrly required multiple desktops or one really large one in the confined space of an RV I'd be using my Oculus Quest 3. But that would be just with Windows. No idea what Linux capability an Oculus has, I quite frankly haven't looked into it yet. The last Oculus update really got the multiple Windows remote desktops setup sorted out quite well though. I haven't used the option much actually, I'm more of a single screen-multiple tabs guy.

I've discovered my sweet spot with my main/home PC to be a 23" 4K monitor. I like all of what I am looking at to be in my field of vision without turning my head. With this one I can not only do that but to do so it also sits at a focal distance where I don't need glasses to read it.

Newest update is a passthrough sort of feature where you can see your physical keyboard while you are doing all that stuff. Mine hasn't gotten that yet but I am looking forward to it.

 

[Neal]

This morning I got to test the 2 x 17.3" 4K portable monitors as linked in post 13 above. On that note, for some reason they've disappeared from Amazon so that link does not take you to the monitor I got, and not sure why it's pulled but glad I got it at the price I did while it was listed.

The prior portable panels I used require both the video connection (mind HDMI) and additionally a USB-C connection for power. My new ASUS ROG STRIX SCAR 18 laptop (desktop replacement) has Thunderbolt 5 USB-C ports which I believe offer 100W per port. So I connected up the first 4K portable via USB-C only to Thunderbolt 5 and it worked perfectly, no additional power connection needed. Plugged in second one, also perfect. The display is 16:9 so it's a little different from the prior non 4K panels but they are amazing!!! So they're keepers. Now the question is will I have enough dinette surface area for all. I also am questioning whether I'm going to take the LG 45" monitor in the coach as the laptop's 18 inch display is soooo good, and the size is comfortable that I think I could live without the monster monitor and leave it at home. However, the "why not" comes into question, if I have it, use it, other than the risk of damaging it in the RV as has happened to two other monitors in the past. One I hit the refrigerator handle on the way to the bedroom, the other was a hard braking situation when I left them on my desk when I had the desk in place of the jack knife sofa's and the monitor's never moved in travel other than this one freak situation avoiding the usual RV driving surprise from an idiot car.

So, the RV office setup (another thread) is shaping up nicely for my efforts to reduce clutter and power consumption for boondocking scenarios. Expensive but done right once it lasts for many years to come.