“Avoiding overlapping windows and knowing in advance where everything is helps me a lot.”

Creatives need large canvases with which to work, but for different reasons.

Apple is one company that knows how important display size is to professionals.

Someone sitting at a desk in a office with nine monitors connected to their computer.

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Importantly for Apple, professionals know what they want, and theyre usually prepared to pay for it.

Form Factors for Everyone

It isnt just about raw display square footage, though.

If it was, using multiple displays would trump using a single one.

Samsung’s Odyssey Ark Curved monitor.

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But counterintuitively, that isnt always the case, and it can depend on a number of factors.

From an ergonomic standpoint, moving your head from side to side to see different monitors isnt ideal.

And in terms of workflows, sometimes fewer displays is beneficial.

Two people working in front of a bank of various sized computer monitors.

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[It has] way more usable space if that makes any sense.

“A single ultrawide monitor is a plug-and-play experience that requires zero configuration.