Why Settle For Dual Monitors When You Could Have Three?
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I’m tellin’ ya - if you haven’t gone dual, you’re not ready to rule.
Someone who goes by the handle “imafrayedknot” left a comment for my Dual Monitor vs Single Screen video:
Productivity is about more than just the brute number of pixels. Using multiple monitors allows me to efficiently organize my desktop resources by using each screen as a partition. I use this triple monitor display.
With two monitors, you would have a black bezel right in the middle of your line of sight between them. Three monitors eliminates this problem. Furthermore I’ve found that my personal workflow is natively three pronged - I put my central focus task up in the middle 21.3 screen and support it with resources on the two rotated wing displays. I run Photoshop or Dreamweaver in the middle, with Firefox on the left and Internet Explorer on the right, or Outlook on one side, a spreadsheet on the other, and Word in the middle. It just helps me synthesize information efficiently. I love it and would never consider going back… It would be like working with one eye closed or something.
Once singletons see any two screens (or more) in action on the same machine, they’re always jealous. It’s not the size of the monitor that matters, it’s what you… never mind.
[tags]dual monitors, multiple monitors[/tags]
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vince7
June 1st, 2007
at 5:37am
Ok, your youth is showing. Dual monitors are nothing new Chris. I used two CRT monitors years ago with Matrox video cards. In fact I would argue that dual monitors are really passe`.
All you need is a fairly large LCD panel with an aspect ratio of 16:1. Say something larger than19 inches. My Viewsonic 2025w is large enuff to support two 8.5 x 11 documents side by side.
The only use I have for for a second monitor is for use with my laptop. I have an HP DV9030us laptop with a 17″ screen. When in use in my home office I keep the laptop in the dockingstation with the lid closed. The video work is done by my Hann-G 19″ LCD panel. When my funds allow i will replace the Hann-G with a wide screen model similar to my Viewsonic.
Michael R. Sullivan
June 1st, 2007
at 8:11pm
Dual? How about 6 monitors on a laptop?!?!
VTBook (VillageTronic) VT OverDrive is available for application that require a lot of monitor space. A Single Device will give you up to 4 monitors on a laptop.
Here is the website to see the 6 monitor setup. http://www.villagetronic.com/vtbook/accessories.html#overdrive
I could not find any info on the stands that they use to mount the monitors, but that would be very interesting.
Slackmaster K
June 2nd, 2007
at 10:03am
Two biguns make a nice setup, but you’re wasting all that airspace overhead. My main setup has six:
4x 1280×1024
- One for taskbar, taskmgr, and all system/network monitoring apps
- One for E-mail
- Two for full-screen RDC/VNC sessions
1400×1050
- 2x MSIE windows
1650×1080
- Full-Screen movies, TV, games
My second system only has two 1280×1024’s, and the server runs headless. I am surrounded a full 270 degrees in Gamma Ray Goodness. What are your thoughts on that?
Hanson So
June 5th, 2007
at 9:31pm
I remembered shoemoney had 2 monitors. More monitors allow more space and you can get a lot of applications out of the way.
Shoemoney made a joke about having the perfect monitor size for certain wallpapers. 
Steve
September 25th, 2008
at 11:52am
I have been using dual monitors since Windows 95. It was not as fluid as it is now, but it was dual. The main monitor was a 15†CRT running at 1024 by 768. The 2nd monitor was a 13†monochrome monitor. Windows 95 was on the color monitor. To display things on the monochrome monitor, I would open a command prompt window, and type mode mono, which would move the command prompt over to the monochrome monitor. The command prompt window would go black (because the video was being sent to the monochrome display adapter.) To type or control the content on the monochrome display, clicking on the blank command prompt window would focus control on the other screen. To get back to something else, move the mouse from the command prompt window and make something else active. From there I could run anything that was text based or had a Hercules Graphics mode. One example was I pulled up a text file on the monochrome monitor while working on a spread sheet on the main monitor. Another example was having sim earth running on the monochrome monitor while I was on the internet on the main monitor. Can’t do that now with ISA being gone.