I don't miss the weight, heat, and the monster headaches those bad boys would give me. You know you've got a pia setup when you need to lay one screen on top of another screen to avoid pin point migraines.
How many screens do you have?
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I don't miss the weight, heat, and the monster headaches those bad boys would give me. You know you've got a pia setup when you need to lay one screen on top of another screen to avoid pin point migraines.
2x monitors, when I am not on my laptop that is. I think 2 monitors are amazing, more just have diminishing returns. Ofc, for designers or architects, you can never have enough screen space, but for me 2 work fine.
The 'bigger' monitors seem to grow horizontally, not in a ratio, that is they are wider more than they are higher. W > H. Such a setup is counter productive, you need something that is in some ratio I guess it is called congruence or whatever I remember it is somthg like 4:3 or whatever, 4 being width 3 being height. In my ideal setup there would be no more than 3 monitors, all big enough to handle movies, so you could play a movie or youtube video in one monitor while working on the other two...
I'm using 3 x 22"s but I'm considering moving back to 2 (probably 24"s) because I only really use 2 of them. The 3rd just runs some spreadsheets that are static most of the day.
The only thing is, I just can't handle not having a central focus. With 2 I just feel I've got one monitor for each eyeball, slowing splitting my brain in two. Guess I need to get used to it.
What is more important, I figure, is finding a decent methodology to using whatever number of monitors you have. Anyone know any resources for this?
The only thing is, I just can't handle not having a central focus. With 2 I just feel I've got one monitor for each eyeball, slowing splitting my brain in two. Guess I need to get used to it.
What is more important, I figure, is finding a decent methodology to using whatever number of monitors you have. Anyone know any resources for this?
Simply put one of the two monitors directly in front of you and one to the side then.
I have the same setup and the same problem. I need a third monitor. The imablance is killing me (and my back).
Can I plug in a third screen into my laptop?
There's nothing wrong with having one of your 3 monitors be the spreadsheet machine. I do this as well, and let me tell you, that spreadsheet is the heart of my business. I have about 20 tabs in it and I can immediately update each part of my business immediately and then return to center screen for work in progress.
If I had to flip around and pop up the spreadsheet to make one tiny change, and then lower it again, then back and forth, I'd go crazy.
You asked about a methodology for monitors, but keep in mind a programmer/developer will have have a diff't need for them as would a PPCer as would another industry vertical, it's really up to you.
For me personally?
Far left (Monitor 1): Static spreadsheets, data scrubber always running in background processing data, Direct TV feed for watching movies.
Central (Monitor 2): Email, Trillian, Browsers, To-Do Lists, etc.
Far right (Monitor 3): Development machine, script work (all source code), etc.
I have all 3 with real-time backups of the data to Carbonite.com, so when I walk away, all newly changed data is backed up automatically.
Does your software handle the ability to say, take a window from monitor #2 and drag it into monitor #1, etc etc? That's important, too.
LOL. My goal is to crash the forum software after 9,999 posts by New Years. Keep goading me.
See, I think this is a LOT more interesting than just talking about how many screens we have.
For me:
1) Spreadsheets, IM, some proxy surfing.
2) Browser 1, Dreamweaver, Photoshop
3) Browser 2, FTP
(explorer, notepad & excel files dragged around between 2 & 3)
The big thing for me has been training myself not to maximise anything except my browsers. Makes dragging screen to screen easier, although at the moment I can only drag between 2 & 3. I want all 3 but I'm not sure how I want to do that yet.
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They're still on the way, so I'll let you know if they're any good once they arrive. For the price, I think they'll kick ass.
They're still on the way, so I'll let you know if they're any good once they arrive. For the price, I think they'll kick ass.