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Dual 24" monitors. HDMI 1920x1080. Dell is okay but their power buttons sometimes stop working. I'm currently using ASUS but you should go off of recent reviews because production quality fluctuates. If you plan on gaming on the setup, make sure the monitors can handle higher refresh rates.

Once you've used dual monitors, everything else will feel cramped. Some people go crazy and get 3 or more monitors but productivity really starts dropping on anything more than two monitors. Dual monitors allow for putting things like folders on the right screen and a fullscreen coding window on the left screen. Then there's no legit need for project folders in an IDE, which frees up about 1/3rd the screen real estate that most IDEs occupy - can simply drag and drop files from the file system directly into the code editor. Dual monitors are also useful for recording the screen for videos - put a script for reading, OBS, and whatever else on the second monitor with the action happening on the primary or vice versa, whichever makes more sense.

Oh, if you do go for dual monitors, be sure to get both at the same time so that they have a better chance of being in the same lot number. Even two different production runs of the same display can have subtle differences that can be noticeable side-by-side in a dual-monitor setup.