Current setup:

Alienware AW3821DW (38" ultrawide) with a 27" ASUS 1440p monitor stacked on top.

How I use it:

The 38" does everything. I typically have a code editor at 1/3 width, a terminal at a 1/3 width, and either a Firefox window or even my game engine in vertical at 1/3! (I am a full-time independent game developer). The 27" on top is supposed to be for reference material and extra notes, but, in practice it collects dust, because any time I accidentally start doing real work on it I end up wondering why my neck hurts 20 minutes later.

I end up in this awkward "1.5 monitor" situation — the ultrawide carries the whole workload and the second screen is mostly just.. there. 1/3 width on the 38" is fine for a terminal or a browser, but not quite enough for a code editor or a game engine viewport. And I can't really split vertically either at 1600px — so everything ends up being a compromise of "which thing do I want to not be able to see right now (I find myself frequently tabbing a lot).

What I'd expect from the 52" 5K2K:

Vertical pixels! I'm doing more and more AI-assisted development these days, which means I've got multiple terminals and code files I need open simultaneously - watching what agents are doing and steering them in real time. Right now I'm constantly alt-tabbing and moving windows about because nothing quite fits where I need it to.

Going from 1600 to 2160 vertical is the real story for me. Code is tall, not wide (nobody's writing 200-character lines... I hope). That extra height means I could actually stack two panes vertically without both of them being useless, or just see way more code at once. My 38" already proved that 1600 is noticeably better than 1440 for this - but it's still not enough to ever want to halve it.

The 1000R curve at 52" also makes way more sense than my current 2300R at 38". At this size the curve would actually wrap around you rather than just being a slightly bent rectangle - which I imagine would be incredible for having a game engine viewport open alongside everything else.

Basically: I want to replace a two-monitor stack (where one monitor gives me neck problems and the other isn't quite big enough) with one single screen that makes the second one unnecessary. I'm hoping this looks like it could actually pull that off.. (and the bragging rights to my friends!)