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- giantAppleCore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+83I do typically submit nwfdn stories, they're my local paper, and their rss feeds contain interesting stories, I could subscribe to yahoo and get their stories, but what is the chance I could submit a story from there before anyone else?
- mozzer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+68or how about: "it was an interesting story he wanted to share"
- umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52Or you could spend $1400 and get two of them. Like me :D
Or you could save your money and just go outside and get some fresh air. I mean, if outlook is pissing you off to the tune of $700 it's time to go exercise. - Bansuri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49At least it's not some crappy blog trying to generate page hits.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29So freaking what? If the content other Digger will Digg becuse they like the article. So what if some one only submits stories from one site or most of the stories are from their favorite site its the content that mainly matters.
-Oh and when I first saw your name giantAppleCore I though it was giantAppleCare - RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26Or you could spend about 700 dollars and get two Dell or Viewsonic 20 inch widescreens.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25I meant to say "...If the content is good other Diggers will Digg it because they like the article."
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17I can't agree more either - multiple monitors rock.
I have an Nvidia Quad card in my machine at the office with 4 flatpanels all running in 1600x1200 and it makes life so much easier than trying to fiddle with multiple desktops.
I can see at a glance when something needs attention. - DaveRocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16when i get a second monitor this is how its gonna look
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/5893/secondmonitorrw6.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15But I believe the point is so that you can have two apps fully open with a dedicated monitor for monitoring email, and perhaps, rss, music controls, etc. Having a 30" monitor is also a bit annoying when you are close to the screen as it requires too much eyestrain, whereas two monitors just requires you to glance over.
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15You should invest in a monitor with spellcheck on it!
- garethevans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Wow, you must have a hell of a job - stock trader?
- AnteChronos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11"You could install Linux and use multiple workspaces, saving a whole lot of money."
The point of having multiple monitors is that you can see more stuff at once. I like to have the code I'm working in in one monitor, and the API docs in another. Using multiple workspaces just isn't the same thing at all. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+19@akira
*SMACK*
How many times do I have to tell you people: Tiger Direct ***** Sucks - Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Why are you running to your monitors at home? Shouldn't you place them a little closer?
- JackAxe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Trust me when I say 2 screens just don't compmare to a single 30". I speak from experience and I would like ot mention a friend in the industry that had taken the dual HD 23" route first for more pixel space. This was after hearing my praises and rambles about my 30". It only took him a year to come around, but he moved to a 30" late last year and regrets not getting one in the first place, because of the money wasted.
I like a second screen for isolation, and I've been using 2 screen setups for about a decade now, but I've never liked the clear seperation via the mointor's border, nor the the "color" differences between two screens that is there no matter how well each one is calibrated. Apps like Photoshop are prone to image ripping with a dual mointor setup. Wacoms as an example, work much better on a single screen. Mapping them to a dual screen cause tracking distortion. Maya, AEP, DVDSPro and FCP are any timeline app are much better to work with on a single higher-rez screen. Well all of my graphic apps, even Painter.
I'm not against adding a second screen to my 30", if it carries the title of Cinitiq 21ux. :]
Blah, until something of a higher rez comes along, that's not painfully slow like the IBM 200 DPI screen from several years back, I'm content. I haven't been this content since getting my first 20" Sony in 96.
Blah... - Samiyam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I just got a Dell 24" LCD widescreen monitor. I was going to toss my old yet still decent 15" LCD, but decided to keep it on for the extra desktop space. An added benefit is that when I hook up my XBOX 360 and play Oblivion on my widescreen, I can have a browser window open on my little monitor for browing Oblivion forums.
Once you try two monitors, you'll never want to go back. - DuttonLake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Once you try three, you can never go back.
I use http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ too tie together my Two 20" Screens on my mac and 21 on my PC. It works perfectly. Its possible too copy paste text between the two computers. Great for testing web pages in all browsers. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7or you could use your laptop as another monitor
http://www.maxivista.com/ - spenceman01, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yes! I've been using 2 monitors for about 5 years now, and I haven't looked back. Typically I've got Winamp and my Gaim userlist in my secondary monitor and whatever I'm actively working on in the pirmary monitor. It's also great during coding sessions. You can have your IDE on one monitor and have documentation, etc. on the other.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8theuber:
Who the ***** uses rotary phones? & I think it's time to clean buddy. - Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Good call - I do work for a trading company but on the development side, and yea it is the same video card all our traders have.
- CyberGlitch, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11You could install Linux and use multiple workspaces, saving a whole lot of money.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Umm... The article is correct, and you are not. Something like 80% of the video cards made in the last 4 years have dual monitor support. If you have a recent video card with 3d capabilities worth speaking of (anything more than $100 worth of card), then it's virtually certain that you have dual monitor support built in.
- DaveRocks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Very Good Read, and that was the reason i invested in a new nVidia (well CS too) but i still need the second monitor
- BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Actualy if you have an older moniter laying around that works just as well. I put my old smaller LCD screen next to my main 17" LCD and I use it to display my google side bar and RSS feeds and stuff. I found this realy cool program called ultra-mon that puts the tool bar on both screens and puts the windows minmized on whatever screen u minimized it on. It also adds buttons to the top bar that allows u to send it to the other screen.
- twid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7How is that the same at all?
- fubar109, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Once you go multi-monitor, you don't go back. I can attest to that.
- t3hSmartKid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7A second monitor is nice to have around if you have the cash...
Or you could use linux with mouse wheel desktop switching. - umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5You can set up something similar with nvidia utilities on windows. And it dooes help some.
- orlandogeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I've been using a dual monitor setup for a couple years and I would never switch back. I do some programming and web development on the side (as I'm sure many others here do) and it's very useful to be able to work on one screen and view results on the other. Thinking of switching from 19" CRTs to 19" widescreen LCDs.
- Bobski, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8@akira117
Feh- Your 19" monitor has no better resolution than My 17", as is the case with almost all monitors over 17".
You don't have a better monitor, just bigger dots. - DuttonLake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think that for the people that don't have two monitors, this story is dugg for them so that they understand the need.
- Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The only thing I REALLY need my large monitors for is database diagrams. It really is helpful being able to see--and read--large schemas without having to scroll around too much. Since I do that a lot I can justify the multiple LCD monitor setup I have.
For now I have a 24" Dell and two 21" Viewsonics in portrait mode, one on either side of the Dell. I have two Nvidia 7800 cards driving it all.
I'm considering a 30 incher. It seems like it would be "cleaner" and take up less desk space.
Once the price comes down a bit I'll look into it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6i was goign to digg this, but they mentioned outlook and i got pissed off.
too many bad memories. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I am now inspired to go out and buy an LCD monitor. Too bad I use a laptop. Just imagine how nice it'd be not to just have two apps in fullscreen, but instead to create somewhat of an information center on the extra monitor with tons of widgets, clock, rss, music control, streaming TV. Although, I wonder how annoying it is to move the mouse over two screens esp. on a laptop when the touchpad. It seems a better idea would be an extremely wide single screen with two sidebars, one on each side with the main content in the center.
- caboosemoose, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I've never said this before because I often find it very annoying myself, but even I am compelled to say on this occasion what the *****? A community generated website designed for technology geeks has promoted to the front page a basic article about having multiple monitors?! Has this not been basically obvious for a long time? Please do digg me down if you think I'm being harsh, but this seems ludicrous to find worthy of note rather than the bleeding ***** obvious.
- chubbymidget, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Can't agree more. At work I have laptop that supports a external monitor in extended mode and I run to monitors on my desktop at home.
- danjal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4sure are a lot of rich bastards on dig...
- bjboth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I just upgraded from two 19" CRTs to two 19" Dell LCDs. I gained about 4 square feet of desk space, and I'm loving it. Now, two 19" Dells run about $250/ea, so it ain't cheap - but it sure is worth it. Never mind the jump in clarity from switching from analog to native DVI.
Since I don't own any screen-calibrating equipment, having my dual screens at different color hues drove me crazy. Goodbye to that problem with LCDs - they match! ...They still could use some calibration, but it's much better than the CRTs.
I'll have to warn you that there is some ghosting, especially when gaming. But in every other aspect, they are superior to my previous CRT setup.
(There's my 2 cents. Got a few hundred bucks? Get some LCDs.) - lava, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I say get two of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116373 - conigs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Us video editors have known this for years. Once using apps on two screens (coding, video editing, graphic design) it gets very hard to go back on a single screen. You realyl dont' realize how much room all those toolbars/info windows take up until you can move them off the screen.
Now if I could just find a good way for my tablet to work seemlessly on two screens... - goat77, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I've got my 19" LCD and a 15" CRT both hooked up to my PC. The 15" CRT is mainly used for playing a constant steam of MST3k while I use my computer.
- umrgregg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ theuber1337, is you computer chair your toilet? :D
Looks like your rig is in the bathroom... - xaxa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People with only one monitor don't comment...
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4simplify but hitting ignore, i use a dual head system and its very productive. its just one of those things you dont realize until you try it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3how do people deal with not having 2 monitors
- DaveRocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would love to get rid of my CRT, but im 15, making only 6 an hour (which i spend all on hoagies from Wawa, and live in a row-home in philly so i know my parents are buying me one any time soon. I do have about 280 saved up, so i'm thinking about that $150 one i saw in a different comment (but i still need to get a diggnation tee) .
- theuber1337, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Couldn't agree more!
http://1337united.com/filehosting/phil/photography/room/leftcorner.jpg
Though, four really is my forte.. ^^ -
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