The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV
The TV mounted on blocks and the Hackintosh suggest the author is willing to compromise and using a TV as a monitor confirms it. Don&#x27;t get me wrong, I also run a Hackintosh and have had monitors stood on boxes, crates and books over the years, but when it comes to displays I really don&#x27;t think you should compromise.<p>I have converted many professionals away from TVs because when you can actually have real quality monitors to compare them too it&#x27;s usually a no-brainer to abandon the cheap TV. No trick, no incentive for me, just the better choice. It is also why every employee in our company has a pair of IPS displays.<p>I&#x27;ve looked at 4K TVs as options for a monitor multiple times, from the early Seiki TVs that hit at the start of the pricing change to what&#x27;s been on offer for Black Friday, don&#x27;t do it to yourself unless you are spending most of your time gaming&#x2F;consuming content on the same system or just using it to monitor things.<p>If you are going to be sat in front of displays for 10,000 hours a year working&#x2F;focusing (like many of us I am sure) then investing in something like a pair of Dell U3415W, LG UM95 or LG 31MU97Z-B will give you a much nicer experience.  Totally appreciate that isn&#x27;t a $300 solution, but as professionals we should invest in (or demand from your employer) good tools.<p>To those of you who are using 4K TVs, it is obviously hard to get in front of these monitors and see the difference, but if you can you should - you&#x27;ve already made the choice to go for something better than a cheap 22&quot; 1080P monitor, there are a lot of options to create a great environment to do your best work.<p>The article is just pure marketing anyway for referrals, so make of that what you will.