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Increase your productivity by using 2 monitors

usatoday.com — How'd you like to increase your office productivity by as much as 50%? Add a second monitor to your computer setup. Once you do, you'll never go back to using only one monitor again.

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  • inactive, on 11/13/2008, -1/+273usayesterday.com?
  • michaelyurechko, on 09/28/2008, -0/+131The article is a ***** joke.

    "Anything larger than 19 inches may strain your eyes if you sit close."

    Are you ***** kidding me? I have a 24 and surprisingly my eyes are fine.
  • OJXs, on 09/28/2008, -5/+122Great, now I can watch twice the porn in the same amount of time
  • S68x, on 09/28/2008, -13/+110Decrease your cash reserves by purchasing another $200 monitor
  • offrdbandit, on 09/28/2008, -1/+76For anyone who spends more than a trivial amount of time working in front of a computer, using two monitors is a huge advantage.

    I cant imagine coding or writing with one monitor after years with two.

    The only problems you can really run into are mismatched monitors. If you are a cheap-o (like me) and don't buy two matched monitors at the same time, you can have trouble getting the colors matched. Mine are the same size but are completely different otherwise - one is about a 1/8 inch shorter, but even that doesn't take much getting used to.
  • athomasUF, on 09/28/2008, -0/+54"Kim Komando" = porn name.
  • worldnick, on 09/28/2008, -4/+57I thought by now everybody did this. At the last two places I worked everyone did this. And for the people who don't understand imagine having a reference document, but you can CHANGE it dynamically!! It actually works really well and the ALT-Tab guy is retarded.
  • liquisoft, on 09/28/2008, -0/+49In all fairness I believe this article was written 5 years ago and got lost on the author's computer.
    When she finally found it she shrugged and published it anyway.
  • Frozo, on 09/28/2008, -0/+39Anything LESS than 19" strains my eyes.
  • inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+39next step: increase it again by getting a third screen!
  • badmephisto, on 09/28/2008, -2/+40I have a 24" and 19" LCD's side by side, and It's the most amazing thing ever. If you are a designer, or a coder, or even a normal person, you will find uses for this. All my MSN windows are dumped on the side. My uTorrents are monitored on the side. My CPU GPU temepratures with RAM, Upload/Download is monitored on the side, while i do normal stuff on the main monitor. When I'm programming, API's go on the side monitor, or a firefox window where I search for snippets of code that I need.
    Its... invaluable.
  • inactive, on 09/28/2008, -0/+37Buried for showing off e-penis.
  • fritzek, on 09/28/2008, -0/+36That was the first thing I noticed when I bought second LCD. I could've watch porn movie on one LCD, while searching for other porn on the other.
  • jhandfield, on 09/28/2008, -2/+33Does your machine really cool so poorly that you have to constantly monitor CPU and GPU temperatures? I've never really understood that...
  • HyperionHK, on 09/28/2008, -0/+30I have to say when programming, dual monitors would be a godsend. Being able to have a full screen of your current code, and another screen for web searches, documentation, other code fragments that might be useful to see.

  • legalizeitmon, on 09/28/2008, -3/+32Try working on two excel spreadsheets at the same time
  • badassninja, on 09/28/2008, -1/+28I refuse to believe that the women in the picture on the left knows jack ***** about computers.
  • kh99, on 09/28/2008, -0/+23I bought eight. My productivity went up so much that I don't even have to show up at work any more.
  • fustercluck, on 09/28/2008, -1/+23And this made front page? There must be a lot of kiddies that don't have a dual monitor rig on their game console...
  • Rykielz, on 09/28/2008, -1/+22Dual-monitors makes coding 100x times easier, one monitor for API's/documentation and the other for your code.

  • richirwin, on 09/28/2008, -0/+18Silly article, but 2 monitors are well worth it.

    I can have my business stuff going on one monitor and my porn going on a second monitor.

    But seriously, I can have porn going on both monitors.
  • badenglishihave, on 09/28/2008, -0/+15@smotpoker: Uh... watching movies and playing games are two things I would never do with dual monitors. Who wants that ugly gap between your images?
  • inactive, on 09/28/2008, -6/+21
    Women don't know anything about tech, men don't know anything about knitting sweaters.

  • bsmang, on 09/28/2008, -2/+15That's weird, because I've been running 2 monitors for years and I LOVE it. I can hardly imagine anymore being restricted to just one screen.
  • publiclurker, on 09/28/2008, -0/+13It's incredibly useful even if they are totally mismatched. I have a 15 inch laptop and an 18 inch LCD. You can't span between them very well, but keeping the reference works on one system, and working on the other is something I wouldn't want to do without.
  • Premier, on 09/28/2008, -0/+13welcome to 2001 usatoday.com
  • AndrewDB, on 09/28/2008, -1/+14I use a 24 inch wide screen and a 19 inch.. both LCDs, and I'm doing fine.. lol.
  • FUR10N, on 09/28/2008, -2/+14@smotpoker, resizing the the windows takes time, use two monitors and you don't have to do that.
  • Katana314, on 09/28/2008, -1/+13Ever since I started using 300 screens, I don't even need employees anymore. My productivity has just increased that much.

    Read our other articles on using twelve mice, and ten keyboards!
  • douglasr007, on 09/28/2008, -1/+13"Anything larger than 19 inches may strain your eyes if you sit close."

    That's what she said.
  • fredandkate, on 09/28/2008, -0/+11Three is even better. I use three at work and there really are significant productivity gains, especially if you work in Excel most of your day.
  • stormgren, on 09/28/2008, -1/+12because you're not switching back and forth, you're just glancing at a reference.
    Also, I never use a mouse when coding. So that's a moot point.
  • Rikkochet, on 09/28/2008, -0/+11I run a 22" widescreen and 19" standard monitor at home - just pull them slightly apart and don't treat them like a single display and it works very well.
    If you haven't already installed Ultramon - do it. It's a great tool that spans your taskbar to both monitors and has many other handy controls to move apps around.
    Between that and Dual View (the dual monitor setting, not an app) this is the sweetest setup I've ever had. Even in gaming it's handy as you can keep your email, IM, and vent windows open and keep half an eye on them without having to alt-tab.
  • elbekko, on 09/28/2008, -0/+11Not many laptops out there that don't have a VGA port.
  • BossKey, on 09/28/2008, -1/+121992 called and they want their productivity tip back.
  • Hybred1234, on 09/28/2008, -0/+11It's just elitist idiots who think they have to monitor their crap 24/7 otherwise they aren't hardcore.

    PRO TIP: Build your ***** better so you don't have to watch it constantly.
  • Sp0rAdiC, on 09/28/2008, -1/+12You think a 24" widescreen is good? Two is twice as good!
  • Matteos, on 09/28/2008, -0/+10Now if i could only find a third hand.
  • Conwaysb0718, on 09/28/2008, -1/+11oh god no... the "DH" verbiage has finally hit digg. *****.
  • themusicalduck, on 09/28/2008, -1/+10Why would you want to have one monitor?

    I love having dual-monitors for everything I do.
  • basye, on 09/28/2008, -1/+10Being in the graphic arts this is an absolute necessity for me. My solution is to plug a 15" MBP up to a Dell 2407 wfp-hc. Without that 24" of color clarity and screen space it would take forever to get pictures, newsletters, posters and movies done in a timely manner. Sometimes I think it would be helpful to have another 24" screen to go alongside of it rather than just the 15" laptop screen.
  • Tynan, on 09/28/2008, -1/+10The programmers at my work often have 3 or 4 monitors. It's known to happen.

    I have only two.
  • jesperhh, on 09/28/2008, -0/+9I use it to remind me how much money i wasted on quad core when 3 of them are always idle..
  • Ransack, on 09/28/2008, -5/+13Summary: C O N S U M E !
  • stormgren, on 09/28/2008, -1/+9You could have been clever and at least done 2monitors1cpu.
  • Yez70, on 09/28/2008, -1/+9On on-line discussion groups, abbreviation for "dear hubby." Less common: "dear husband," "dearest h*," "darling h*."

    Frequent users include SAHMs, Christians; any group with the right combination of insecurity, self-righteousness, and poor education.

    Often inexplicably used with an insult, usually cutesy: "my DH is a nice man, but ugly as a shaved kitten." Tends to be near emoticons, LOL and its various permutations, capitalisation-free text, and spelling errors.

    From: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dh
  • kentifer, on 09/28/2008, -1/+9I like my current 24" one.
    1920x1200 is enough for me.
    Although I guess i could have got two 20" ones for the same price, but then i'd have to factor in the cost of a video card, too.
  • moxley, on 09/28/2008, -0/+8DH...

    Dead Husband?
    Director of Herpes?
    Doctor of Horticulture?

    (Seriously..Not trying to be a dick..just can't figure it out)...
  • matthewaaron, on 09/28/2008, -1/+9Great! Now I can show this article to all of the people who think I'm wasting company money by having two monitors!
  • Azarken, on 09/28/2008, -0/+7Not even on par with another monitor, nice try though.
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