Using multiple monitors
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NAcho hey you have the same POS toshiba I do, it's actually a great machine inside just total crap on the outside, my left click button is worn through and where I rest my my wrists is wearing too.
Do you have problem with the screen pushing up against the keys when its closed and in your laptop bag? I ended up cutting out a felt protector to put between the keys and screen to keep the marks from becoming something permanent.
It's a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 right?
Do you have problem with the screen pushing up against the keys when its closed and in your laptop bag? I ended up cutting out a felt protector to put between the keys and screen to keep the marks from becoming something permanent.
It's a Toshiba Satellite M45-S359 right?
Ya, it is wearing out on the outside, I never travel with mine so I can't say about the keyboard on the screen issue.
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Thanks..I usually have shit on my desk..and it feels a lot less clean with 5.1 speakers on the desk lol. I'm using the Nvidia Geforce 6600GT.
Oh, and Lucab: I call bullshit on that picture. :drinkup:
Do you have any heat issues with your 4 computers in that white thing?
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- but what about the other 19?What exactly is better about this than "virtual desktops"? You can only work with 1 screen at the time so I guess the other screens are purely informational or for fast switching (which virtual desktops do too).
If they are for informational purposes, well I just use some type of growl notification service (mac) which lets me know about new emails (title, from who, short snippet) and other things as well.
If they are for informational purposes, well I just use some type of growl notification service (mac) which lets me know about new emails (title, from who, short snippet) and other things as well.
You can increase productivity a lot by having say (if you are a web designer) Dreamweaver open on one screen and your browser in another. (Prob a crap example - I'm no pro designer!)
Multiple monitors are definitely worth it. I used to use a couple for music - one for the sequencer, another for instruments. I'm just not sure about the most productive way to use them for marketing.
so lets say I have 2 monitors on my XP machine, what happens when I fire up CS:Source?
Does it go across both screens? (not good) Or does one stay on the desktop the other on CS? (not great either)
Does it go across both screens? (not good) Or does one stay on the desktop the other on CS? (not great either)
all i have to say about this is unless you have actually sat down and worked on a multiple monitor setup... shuddup.
No really you don't know nor realize the productivity upgrade this is
i dont have to think which virtual desktop n:vu or photoshop or illustrator is working on because i jusr look right or left and there it is. I don't have to press a hot key set to change my active screen, plus with my nvidia setup it remembers which screen the ap was open on last so i never mistake what screen which app working on.
if you code or design at all one of best part about multiple monitors is you hardly ever use alt-tab like on a single screen, not having to cycle through apps and open folders is a huge timesaver.
so once again if you havent tried it don't even make comments, try it for a few days and then come back and see if you make the same comments
No really you don't know nor realize the productivity upgrade this is
i dont have to think which virtual desktop n:vu or photoshop or illustrator is working on because i jusr look right or left and there it is. I don't have to press a hot key set to change my active screen, plus with my nvidia setup it remembers which screen the ap was open on last so i never mistake what screen which app working on.
if you code or design at all one of best part about multiple monitors is you hardly ever use alt-tab like on a single screen, not having to cycle through apps and open folders is a huge timesaver.
so once again if you havent tried it don't even make comments, try it for a few days and then come back and see if you make the same comments
For work, I use dual monitors. I truly feel it saves hours of my time flipping back and forth. At home when programming, if I feel the need to use dual monitors, I use my laptop with a projector screen.
Within a few months I'll be running two 30" Apple Cinema Displays, I used to be running two 20" 4:3 but when I bought my laptop I returned one and I use the other one to display my "what's playing" off my desktop.
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