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Monitor buying guide: How to find a monitor for your home office

Jan Johannsen
17.9.2020
Translation: machine translated

If you don't have a monitor, sooner or later you risk damaging your posture when working from home. However, finding the right monitor for your laptop is not difficult at all. You can read about what's important here.

If you pay attention to ergonomics, the right size and resolution, suitable connections and energy consumption, you can filter out a clear selection of suitable home office monitors from the large range on sale and find the best one for you. My recommendation for the filters:

  • Ergonomics: anti-glare, height-adjustable, tiltable
  • Size and resolution: 27 inch, WQHD resolution
  • Connections: HDMI + USB-C
  • Energy efficiency class: at least F (according to the new 2021 classes)

Reflective, mobile and big enough

A curved monitor offers no advantages in the classic home office. They are more noticeable when playing games or editing photos and videos. And curved monitors are often more expensive in comparison.

HDMI and USB-C

As the monitor will be switched on for several hours a day, it's worth taking a look at the energy consumption. That's why I choose at least energy efficiency class "E", which has been in force since March 2021.

If I feed our filters with these specifications - anti-glare, height-adjustable, tiltable, 27 inches, WQHD, HDMI, USB-C and at least energy efficiency class A - these are currently the five most popular models from our range.

Do you need other connections or want an integrated webcam in the monitor? Then you can adjust the filters here.

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Jan Johannsen
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Jan.Johannsen@galaxus.de

When I was but a young student, I'd sit in my friend's living room with all my classmates and play on his SuperNES. Since then I've had the opportunity to test out all the newest technology for you. I've done reviews at Curved, Computer Bild and Netzwelt, and have now arrived at Galaxus.de. 

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