If you’re still only using a single monitor while you work, you are severely missing out. When I’m just locked down to one screen, I feel like one of those race horses who have those blinders on the sides of their eyes, with its vision severely limited. When you can have the document your working on, your email inbox, and your web browser open all at the same time, you can feel much more productive. Heck, even just having multiple browser tabs side by side instead of flipping back and forth between them. You can find monitor relatively cheap too, like this one from Sceptre now on sale.
You might be thinking to wait for Black Friday to get a good monitor deal, but you don’t have to. You won’t find something more affordable as this Sceptre 22-inch monitor has come down 14%. The discount is not too staggering, but the starting price was already insanely low at just $73. This ends up taking off $10, leaving you only having to pay $63 for a limited time.
A Perfect Monitor for Gaming and Work
Sceptre lists this as a gaming monitor, which you can certainly use it for, but I’d argue it’s better off as your auxiliary monitor. At only 22 inches, it’s better positioned off to the side from your main screen. You can play games on your number one monitor while you keep Discord up on this screen. Or if you’re getting work done, you get work primarily off your main display and then keep Slack or Teams open over here.
The Sceptre 22-inch monitor has a full HD resolution of 1080p. At that size, this should provide you with plenty of detail. It has a high refresh rate of up t 144Hz and an input timing of just 1ms. Clicks and keyboard presses feel near instantaneous and if you are playing games, your in-game character will feel snappy and responsive.
The monitor has its own built-in speakers so you don’t need to worry about connecting headphones or plugging in external speakers just to watch along with a YouTube video you’ve pulled up. You can plug in to either of those though as the back of the unit has an AUX port for sound output.
You can set up this monitor with up to three different sources. The backside has two inputs that are HDMI as well as one more in the DisplayPort variety. Each are capable of 1080p at 144Hz.