JUNE 2020 PCWorld 109S
hould you buy a 1080p or 4K
monitor for your home office? This
is a question you’ll inevitably face,
especially if you’ve been trying to
work off of a single monitor or a cramped
laptop display at home. If you have the
budget and space to add a second or third
monitor, you then have the choice between
buying the ubiquitous 1080p resolution
(1920x1080 pixels), or 4K (3840x2160
pixels), the higher resolution that’s already
common on TVs and some high-end
laptops.
PCWorld’s editors have been through
exactly the same debate with our own home
offices. The strategy we’ve landed on is this:
Buy a 1080p monitor (or two!) now, to create
your own dual-monitor (go.pcworld.com/IMAGE: CHANCE REECHER
1080p vs 4K: Which is better for
your work-from-home setup?
You can get more done with more screen space across multiple monitors, rather than a
single high-resolution display. BY MARK HACHMAN