Stephanie Walker

Good add. Also don’t put much stock in vague “military grade” claims - look for a specific drop rating (like 6–10 ft, multiple drops) and mention of third-party testing. Cases with an inner shock layer (d3o/foam) or ribbed air channels in the corners and plus a MagSafe ring to stiffen the back, usually outlast bare hard clear shells. If you add tempered glass, get a case-friendly one so the lip still clears it, and if you want clear, pick anti-yellowing TPU or a UV-coated hybrid.

Two things matter most for crisp code on budget 1440p IPS. Correct subpixel alignment and correct signal format. For the first confirm the panel is RGB in landscape mode and run the ClearType wizard on Windows choosing samples that look darkest and least colored. On macOS, you can try font smoothing by running this in Terminal then logging out and in again defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 1 For the second, make sure the GPU is outputting full RGB 4 4 4. If you see any hint of color bleed on one pixel checkerboards, the connection might have fallen back to YCbCr subsampling. DisplayPort is the easy button here. Once those two are locked in, 27 inch 1440p is totally workable for long coding days.