How big is your monitor?

A tad under 24 here. I can't believe I've just fetched the tape measure to check it, lol.

27 inch here (Mac)....takes up less desk space...good for having 2 webpages viewable at the same time without toggling between them.

I had to measure mine.....cm ruler which I then had to divide by 2.5 to get inches.....why are we still using a thousand year old measuring system?

I thought 'monitor' was going to be a euphemism!

I agree leopard, do you think TV manufacturers are in "league" with retailers to "hide" the understanding and confuse the purchaser, so in the end they cannot "fathom" what "line" to take in trying to measure in the mind how the advertised "span" will look in reality.

I think they are making a"rod" for their own backs, and we should take a firm "line" To change this, give them an "inch" and they take a "mile". I'm not one to point the "finger" but this has gotten out of "hand", we have got to "nail" this nonsense, as say firmly, not in my back "yard".

I'm looking for my "teaspoon" to make myself a comforting "cup" of tea, my mates "rod" and "mark" are searching for a "link"  to see how we can "strike" this out.

I had to stop there, There are too facking many, I need to look at the horsies.

A for effort....Government should step in and ban the use of all non-metric systems.

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Rather than a very large monitor, you should give some consideration to having two (or more) slightly smaller monitors. There are two advantages: you can have one turned in portrait mode; you can use one for more-or-less static content (eg email, instant messenger). This is what I use for work. It can be easier than having just one monitor where you might "lose" the window you mainly use under other ones.

In a Betfair context, you could imagine one monitor for Betfair itself and the other one for the forum and Racing Post.

I'll probably get two so I can watch more things like bbc red button (both tables in the snooker) and sky go.

22", I've burnt out too many laptops for me to go back to one. My last laptop was 17" but I've never regretted moving back to a PC. I built my current PC with a fast SSD, motherboard and RAM but no extra graphics card.

One question, if you use a 2nd monitor, do you need a decent graphics card?

1 more than kenny

19". It says so on the bottom of the monitor.

@Ovalman re graphics card for second monitor.

Ordinary mortals with a recent pc should be all right without a high-performance graphics card, though video editors and gamers might beg to differ. What you do need, of course, is the video ports.

Thanks Ramruma, I know a modern onboard card has a couple of slots (Mine has 3, monitor, HDMI and 1 other) but was just wondering if I needed a faster graphics card to run 2 at the same time. I play a lot of poker but I stack, a 2nd monitor would be handy though for registering etc.

No you dont mate. The inbuilt GPU on the core processors, which I presume you have, are more than capable for basic stuff like internet, poker and streaming video on two screens.

21" imac. Huge regret not getting the 27"