Talking about unusual monitor aspect ratios, what I would really want is a 3840x2400 monitor. 1920x1200 is somewhat common and easy to find, but 2400p is only available on a few laptops.
Why 2400p? Because it is the LCM of 400, 480 and 600, so it would allow perfect integer rescaling of my favourite MS-DOS and early Windows games.
The Sotsu "Flip Action Elite" (I think that's the product name? it was in a recent mrwhostheboss thin tech video) is exactly that: 3840x2400, 16", 450 nits, 14.3mm thick, and definitely had "slice the top off a laptop" vibe to the design... I don't know if you can actually find them though, but it looked really shiny :-)
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Talking about unusual monitor aspect ratios, what I would really want is a 3840x2400 monitor. 1920x1200 is somewhat common and easy to find, but 2400p is only available on a few laptops.
Why 2400p? Because it is the LCM of 400, 480 and 600, so it would allow perfect integer rescaling of my favourite MS-DOS and early Windows games.
The Sotsu "Flip Action Elite" (I think that's the product name? it was in a recent mrwhostheboss thin tech video) is exactly that: 3840x2400, 16", 450 nits, 14.3mm thick, and definitely had "slice the top off a laptop" vibe to the design... I don't know if you can actually find them though, but it looked really shiny :-)
Trivially available at B&H for about $750. Speaking of DOS games, it's about half the cost of an IBM VGA monitor from 1987, in today's dollars.
With a large enough OLED you can just leave some actually black borders and get perfect integer scaling in all cases.
External 16" 3840x2400 monitors are ~$150 on Amazon.
Sorry, I forgot to mention that you can find them in 16", but I would like at least 24" to use it as my main monitor.
What's surprising (to me) is that there exist 3840x2560 28" IPS panel monitors on Amazon for only $150.
Yeah, I have also seen those ones. Why 3:2 instead of the more common 16:10 is a mystery to me.