More lines on screen, sharper text, and room for editor, browser and terminal side by side. Our picks from the Deco Gear lineup, and the numbers behind them.
Lines of code scale with screen height in pixels. 2160 pixels tall shows roughly 60% more lines than 1440.
Pixel density decides how crisp small text looks. 139 PPI on the 40″ 5K2K versus about 109 PPI on 1440p ultrawides.
USB-C with charging, plus a built-in KVM, lets one keyboard and mouse work across a laptop and a desktop.
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How we chose: product details come from each model’s current factory spec sheet. Lines of code estimated at a 20-pixel line height after about 260 pixels of editor and taskbar chrome.
Yes, if you work with several windows at once. A 5120-pixel-wide screen fits an editor, a browser and a terminal side by side at full height. If you mostly read long files, vertical pixels matter more: a 5120 × 2160 screen shows about 95 lines at a 20-pixel line height, versus about 59 on a 1440-pixel-tall screen.
The 49″ 5K gives more width (two 27-inch QHD screens’ worth). The 40″ 5K2K gives more height and sharper text (139 PPI versus about 109). For long files and dense text, choose the 40″; for many windows side by side, the 49″.
Yes. The 40″ 5K2K and the 49″ 5K both have USB-C with charging (90 W and 65 W) and a built-in KVM, so one keyboard and mouse can switch between the two computers. Both also support picture-by-picture.
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