I've spend anything from 9 to 14 hours staring at 2 and sometimes 3 monitors with 4 to 5 vim isntances at once. I know I am asking this to the right people here ! :) Are there any suggestions?

Yup.

Don't do that!

Seriously. Take a break for a few minutes every hour. You'll feel better for it :-)

I have little to no experience with flat lcds, is this something one should consider? are there advantages? I see a lot of talk online about graphics and monitors, but little about coding. Please suggest, money is not an issue with this.. it's our eyes!

I personally prefer LCDs to CRTs. I presume that this must have something to do with the lack of refresh flicker. I've been told by some gamers I know that CRTs are better for them - but I've never found it an issue for coding.

One low tech tip that I find works for whatever display you like. At the start of each day set the brightness/contrast to their lowest settings. Then adjust them so their comfortable.

If I only tweak the settings when I notice a problem I slowly jog them towards the high-brightness / high-contrast end of the scale but never end up turning them down. So I end up with more light coming off the screen which hurts my eyes (it burns!). Daily resets force me to find a more optimal setting.

In reply to Re: (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by adrianh
in thread (OT) good monitor or screen for coding please suggest by leocharre

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