Philips 498P9

THE BIGGEST ULTRA-WIDE SCREEN SIZE DELIVERS INCREDIBLE DESKTOP SPACE

You’ve decided to go wide, so go all-out and opt for the widest possible display that gives you an insane amount of desktop space. That’s the reason anyone would choose the 498P9, a 49-inch screen with a 32:9 aspect ratio that really puts the ‘ultra’ in ultrawide. It will utterly dominate a room, and is so big we’d certainly recommend planning carefully before purchase.

It weighs 15kg so requires a large, strong desk, and you need to be sitting the right distance from it – but perhaps most importantly, you need to get ready for a total change in how you work. With so much screen in front of your eyes you really do gain the ability to have a lot more visible information at any one time – four applications at maximum height looks perfectly normal, and at a pinch, you can squeeze in six.