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Also note: At the very end of this article is a detailed spec breakout of our top choices. Read on for our labs-tested favorites, followed by the buying basics you should know when buying a monitor.

We've outlined below our top picks among home and office monitors we've tested. (The lines can get fuzzy among these panels.) Entertainment panels, meanwhile, comprise the vast range of gaming monitors, as well as some for content creation and consumption. The latter may be equipped with videoconferencing features and/or a port selection that makes them a good substitute for a laptop’s docking station.

Also in this class: general-purpose workaday monitors, and home-office monitors. Between the two extremes, though, we group most desktop displays into two general categories: business monitors, and entertainment monitors.īusiness (aka productivity) monitors include professional monitors with high (usually 4K) native resolution and image quality geared to graphic artists, photographers, and videographers. Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help you make better buying decisions. ( See how we test everything we review (Opens in a new window).)Ĭomputer monitors come in variety of sizes, from 12-inch portable displays (the smallest we’ve reviewed) up to 65-inch panels that bridge the gap between monitors and TVs.

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