On Windows the higher the resolution the smaller the text and the more eye-strain. Windows only supports 125% text size without breaking stuff. "Large" (150%) is totally broken in most applications.
So if you go high resolution in Windows then expect to be manually altering the size of the text in every program you use (Chrome, Visual Studio, Word, etc).
In my personal opinion LED causes less eye-strain than LCD (less "flicker" with LED). I haven't noticed an improvement between IPS and TN panels, but I also look at the screen straight on (and most of IPS's perks are in things that don't help text anyway).
I strongly recommend that whatever you wind up getting turn the brightness down. I took mine from 100% (default) to 25%. The default brightnesses are for displaying them in stores (in the "brightness wars") and have no place being that high when in use.
If you're using a Mac then you're fortunate as Apple support 2560×1600 displayed as 1280x800 which means much higher resolution fonts and no need to mess with the sizes of things (ala Windows).
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On Windows the higher the resolution the smaller the text and the more eye-strain. Windows only supports 125% text size without breaking stuff. "Large" (150%) is totally broken in most applications.
So if you go high resolution in Windows then expect to be manually altering the size of the text in every program you use (Chrome, Visual Studio, Word, etc).
In my personal opinion LED causes less eye-strain than LCD (less "flicker" with LED). I haven't noticed an improvement between IPS and TN panels, but I also look at the screen straight on (and most of IPS's perks are in things that don't help text anyway).
I strongly recommend that whatever you wind up getting turn the brightness down. I took mine from 100% (default) to 25%. The default brightnesses are for displaying them in stores (in the "brightness wars") and have no place being that high when in use.
If you're using a Mac then you're fortunate as Apple support 2560×1600 displayed as 1280x800 which means much higher resolution fonts and no need to mess with the sizes of things (ala Windows).