jeremy.zawodny.com— I always wanted a good excuse to have a large monitor on my desk at work. Now I have some research to prove it!!
Oct 19, 2005View in Crawl 4
bigred 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.
I 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.
Well 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.
Large 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.
I 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.
frankiejrOct 19, 2005
bigred 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.
vholdOct 19, 2005
I 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.
mikezOct 19, 2005
Well 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.
tokenuserOct 19, 2005
Large 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.
yaosOct 20, 2005
hmmm.. i thought that this would already be common sense.
mandrikarOct 21, 2005
So...BIGGER is better...
jasocoOct 22, 2005
I 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.