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Originally Posted by unclebilly

I got a 40” NEC 404 touchscreen for $300. It’s still sitting in the box in my office. Do I actually need that much screen?

40" is big (and based on my wish list below, probably about perfect if it's extra wide), but what you probably don't need is touchscreen. My old (9 years) PC was a 23" touch screen. I rarely used the touchscreen functionality, and actually turned it off after the first 3-4 years. If I ever did use the touchscreen, then I just ended up having to clean the darn monitor later to get ride of the fingerprints.
If I was going to pick my perfect monitor, it would be something more like this.
It would be 12-14" tall (the viewable screen) and about 36" wide, so a diagonal measurement of 39-40" would fit the bill nicely. Then it would be a 4k or 5k monitor scaled up to that size.