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- bigred, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Windows can have multiple workspace environments with many free programs to do it. Another reason not to switch to linux.
But really, Is this news to anyone? I mean who would have thought that a bigger monitor means you can get more work done, or that you could store more boxes in bigger warehouse! It defies logic! - Christophercles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Try increasing mouse sensitivity Harlegun.
- ReRunx5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@harlegun
"no way! they DECREASE productivity.
Means you have to run the mouse further to click on something! I think there is a point of diminishing returns with monitor size."
you can make the movement of the mouse much faster or you can use the keyboard shortcuts
duh?! - hass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find multiple monitors have increased my productivity although it is somewhat of a novelty. I have a 20" Dell widescreen and an old 17" CRT. And I have to agree with the post. I am much more productive with a 20" widescreen than I was with my 17" CRT. I kind of wish I would have gone with the 24" but I'm a poor college student. So I'm stuck with a puny 20" montior. :)
- johnwiseman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No wonder I can never get any work done on my Sony TR3 laptop!@
- frankiejr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0bigred and others:
If you use an nVidia card, try using the virtual desktops that are built into their drivers. I've tried a few others, and I agree with your opinions on those. The ones built into the nVidia drivers, however, have never failed me or caused any problems whatsoever.
I would have dugg this story if it seemed like the poster had actually read the article and not just the blog post. There's a lot more good info in that piece than just the multiple-monitor bit. - KillaKev, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Please link to the actual STORY, not a blog post. Thanks
- elton.gjata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i agree, multiple monitors is much more productive than just one, whatever its size.
i have a dual monitor setup and it totaly rocked my socks in the begining when i could have a browser on one screen and a document on the other, i cant work on one monitor now. - mlebeau, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ themulf: "1600x1200 or bust"? How old-fashioned. These days, it's "2560x1600 or bust" for me. :)
@ KillKev: Don't be a douche. The long original article only touches briefly on the monitor size issue, and discusses a number of issues not relevant to this particular point. So the blog post is a good thing to link to. People here complain that posters don't do their research before posting; well, people should also do their research before complaining about posters. :P - yaos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmmm.. i thought that this would already be common sense.
- Superfluous, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0thats what they say. at my mom's office they are giving everyone dual monitor set ups.... i really dont see how it helps productivity but its cool to have 2 linked monitors
- BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Now I have an excuse to get that 20.1" widescreen Dell monitor ($394) i've always wanted.
- lucasni, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know if its the monitor but going from 1440x900 on my PowerBook to coding in 1024x768 on my old home computer made me far less productive. I went from being able to have a coding window open, a terminal window and even iTunes (in minimized form) all in one screen to having all my windows cascaded on the older mac. I felt slowed down by the continual window moving, etc.
- xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have 2, 17 Inch LCDs, I can say I would never go back to one screen again, great for MMORPGs and other stuff like that.
- karamba_kid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@ bigred
Yeah all the virtual desktops for windows suck. They are all buggy and a lot of applications don't work with them. The KDE Pager puts all of them to shame. Just another reason to use Linux ;) - ,,|,_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No kidding, I got to edit video on the big 20" Apple cinema display during SXSW last year. It made a huge difference.
- salmonmoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No fewer than 3 VDU's for a workstation for me (one is a reference TV) all at 1600x1200 (well, not the tv)
- 5had0w, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You can digg and work at the same time; works 4 me!
- TokenUser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Large displays? Yep - huge advantage. Multiple monitors is what makes me more productive though ... the documents I work on stay on the large monitor - reference material, IM, email, etc stays on the laptop screen.
- Jasoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I have a 20" with 1680x1050. I came from a maximum of 1024x768 for years. And before that it was 800x600 and 640x480. The higher my monitor goes, the more productive I really do get. For one thing, I really really like having a lot of space to put stuff.
Except now I'm spoiled. I'll never be able to go lower, in fact I wish I had a 23" screen. 20" is so cramped. - blackjack75, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I am indeed much more productive when my laptop (12 inch, 1024x768) is hooked onto an additional monitor. See, right now I don't have it connected and I am just hanging on reading digg.com
- Pulse_Instance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I completely agree that a large monitor increases productivity, but I find that having two seperate workspaces increases productivity even more. I use one 19" monitor at home, and two 17" monitors at work. At home I constantly switch between reference materials and my code, at work I have the reference materials on one screen and my code on the other screen.
- capn_caveman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This guy probably works for a large monitor manufacturing company.
- mandrikar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0So...BIGGER is better...
- vhold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I can definitely say that having two monitors improves my productivity, although I there is no way I could quantify by how much. The biggest advantage to me is being able to execute long running tests and keeping an eye on them while developing, writing emails, IMing with coworkers, etc..
I used to work at really high resolutions with tiny font xterms to accomplish the same thing, and that was fairly hard on my eyes. Now I just do nearly everything full screen on two monitors at once which is a lot more comfortable. - mikataur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0> I have a 30" Apple Cinema display, and I don't think it makes me more productive.
Well, you must have been pretty productive already to be able to afford one! So, what are they, the cost of a small car or something (+ the video card to drive it). - slapout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"I have a 30" Apple Cinema display, and I don't think it makes me more productive."
Well then just send it to me. I'll try to suffer thru being so unproductive. :-) - dpk87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I enjoy my 1920 x 1200 very much
- veritech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0it depends on what your doing. But in most cases the bigger the resolution the better, i went from a 15" CRT to a 19" LCD(1280*1024) i think my productivity increased, it's a joy to code html, and work with "fairly" large photo's. the only problem in my eyes with high resolutions is gaming, cause you have to keep buying graphics cards that can handle your games at @ native.
- MikeZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well yeah the bigger the sceen is the more you can do on it at the same time, and if you edit video like me its makes it easy and you get video fixs done faster and photoshop to. also the dell moniter that shown thats one of the biggest moniters i've seen for pc. there could could be bigger onece too. but the apple ones are really big. even just 20inch can go a long way.
- Mahz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For me, there's no question that having a larger screen (or actually higher resolution) makes one more productive. Having windows side by side without having to scale, more information at a glance, etc. All good points. But not all desktop environments are completely ready for these high resolutions.
Something I've been wondering about as far as large screens at high resolutions go, how does everybody manage the maximum size of maximized windows? I have a 1600*1200 at home and at that resolution I vastly prefer OS X's 'zoom" function over Windows' "maximize". At 1600*1200, forums and newssites become a pain to read at full maximized size, and resizing every window by hand becomes bothersome.
I've used Stardock's WindowFX to restrain maximum window size for webpages and some other applications, but it does have some downsides: mazimized windows can't be moved, and managing exclusions is a hassle. And it's not free as in beer.
Anyone know if Vista covers this? - teh_techie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually recently received a larger monitor, and found that my productivity and response time (I work at a tech-support call center) for my clients improved. I see it in my stats!
- peerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Who needs to watch 4 porn videos at once?
- Harlequn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0no way! they DECREASE productivity.
Means you have to run the mouse further to click on something! I think there is a point of diminishing returns with monitor size. - kejistan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@Harlegun
Well, you could always adjust your mouse sensitivity...
But really, it does make sense to use a bigger monitor and to run at a higher resolution, 800x600 sucks. - themulf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I hate when people work with low resolutions at school. Durr I cant read it.... well sheet, I wear glasses.. I manage. 1600x1200 or bust. Higher the better, monitor prohibiting.
- duwanis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@ bigred: I know, I've used most of them, and they're all either unstable or they turn into resource hogs.
But all in jest :) - evilhecubus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I dugg this.
...that's what I would have said, had this not linked to a blog instead of this actual content - duwanis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0So next study: Does having multiple workspace environments increase efficiency?
I smell another reason to use Linux... :)
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