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Poll: What is the size of your main monitor used for translation work?
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida  Identity Verified
Portugal
Local time: 00:12
Miembro 2007
inglés al portugués
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17 inches May 19, 2022

My desktop has a 17 inches screen. I've bought a new one recently with a higher resolution but I've never seen the need for additional screen space.

Dina Lebedeva
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 00:12
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Size is everything. May 19, 2022

Question "What is the size of your main monitor used for translation work?"
Answer: bigger than yours. So all you other posters can stop now.


 
Alex Lichanow
Alex Lichanow
Alemania
Local time: 01:12
Miembro 2020
inglés al alemán
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27 inches May 19, 2022

27-inch main monitor, 24-inch second monitor.
To each their own, definitely, but personally, I could not work with only one monitor and any diagonal below 24 inches. Used to work with one 22-inch screen during my project manager days, so I am definitely glad those are over and I can freely decide over the screen real estate I need for efficient work.

[Edited at 2022-05-19 11:33 GMT]


 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
Países Bajos
Local time: 01:12
Miembro 2006
inglés al afrikaans
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27" May 19, 2022

27", 2560x1440. My previous monitor was 22", 1920x1080. I see the majority of answers are in the 15" range... but I suppose those are mostly laptops.

 
Kevin Fulton
Kevin Fulton  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 19:12
alemán al inglés
27/24 May 19, 2022

Recently 24/24. I'm still trying to figure out the proper configurations, as sometimes MS Word occupies all the real estate of both monitors wnen I try to close a file.

Muriel Vasconcellos
 
Christine Andersen
Christine Andersen  Identity Verified
Dinamarca
Local time: 01:12
Miembro 2003
danés al inglés
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24 inch diagonal May 19, 2022

About 21 by 12 inches.

It means I can have two documents open side by side if I want to, or I can use readable text sizes on all sections of the divided Trados screen.

If I need any more than that, I either print out a page or two, so I can write pencil notes, or I use my laptop screen beside the desktop. That works fine for me.


Sadek_A
 
Lieven Malaise
Lieven Malaise
Bélgica
Local time: 01:12
Miembro 2020
francés al neerlandés
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24 inches May 19, 2022

And that's more than enough because sometimes translating already feels like watching tennis at Wimbledon.

Dina Lebedeva
María Luciana Rolón
expressisverbis
 
Sadek_A
Sadek_A  Identity Verified
Local time: 03:12
inglés al árabe
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47, slim, FHD May 19, 2022

The bigger the screen, the more comfortable your eyes and the better your eyesight.

Before that, I was using 22 slim FHD. And, the difference is earth and sky.

And, before that, 15 CRT. That was quite the baggage. Moving it from one room to another needed preparations, nutritious meal beforehand and some pushups. Funny thing is that it lived, without any maintenance whatsoever, longer than its successors.

My objective is to score a 65 UHD in the future, if
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The bigger the screen, the more comfortable your eyes and the better your eyesight.

Before that, I was using 22 slim FHD. And, the difference is earth and sky.

And, before that, 15 CRT. That was quite the baggage. Moving it from one room to another needed preparations, nutritious meal beforehand and some pushups. Funny thing is that it lived, without any maintenance whatsoever, longer than its successors.

My objective is to score a 65 UHD in the future, if they ever get cheaper here (I have my doubts).
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Christine Andersen
 
Tom in London
Tom in London
Reino Unido
Local time: 00:12
Miembro 2008
italiano al inglés
Basic May 19, 2022

this is my basic setup but I need three assistants to operate it (that's me in the middle).

Screenshot

[Edited at 2022-05-19 16:29 GMT]


Lieven Malaise
Liena Vijupe
Dina Lebedeva
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
Nadia Silva Castro
Philip Lees
Wolfgang Schoene
 
John Silva
John Silva
Brasil
Local time: 20:12
inglés al portugués
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15/16 May 19, 2022

For me, 15/16 is a perfect size for a screen when you working at least 8 hours a day, I would not like to have a 24 inch screen in front of my eyes.

 
Philip Lees
Philip Lees  Identity Verified
Grecia
Local time: 02:12
griego al inglés
Proof-reading fail May 20, 2022

Another embarrassing mistake in the poll answers, as anybody who uses a screen larger than 24 inches cannot find an option that matches.

Obviously, the "< 24 in" should have been ">".

Mine is currently 32 in, by the way.


expressisverbis
Miranda Drew
 
Muriel Vasconcellos
Muriel Vasconcellos  Identity Verified
Estados Unidos
Local time: 16:12
Miembro 2003
español al inglés
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27" May 20, 2022

That's the actual screen size. The monitor is larger, of course. I have the same problem with Microsoft spreading out so that it's hard to look at two documents at once. I'm about to buy a 15" laptop for backup.

 
Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray  Identity Verified
Países Bajos
Local time: 01:12
Miembro 2006
inglés al afrikaans
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Modern comments May 20, 2022

Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:
I have the same problem with Microsoft spreading out so that it's hard to look at two documents at once.

When I need to view two Word files in a modern version of Word side by side, I disable "Modern comments" by running a BAT file with this in it:

reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\Ecs\word
reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\ExperimentConfigs\FirstSession\word


 
Hipyan Nopri
Hipyan Nopri  Identity Verified
Indonesia
Local time: 06:12
Miembro 2005
inglés al indonesio
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32 Inches May 20, 2022

Given the conditions of my nearsighted eyes, a monitor lower than 32 inches is less comfortable.

 
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