Dual monitors

[Cutter]

Just got set up with dual monitors this morning. Not lcd, just massive old school crts. I've done this before, but its never fealt right have an old 15 incher up against a 19 inch. I'm interested to see if this increases my productivity at all.

[Todd W]

I`m gonna get another monitor here soon.. been so busy haven't ordered, and am waiting for coupon.

I know it will help productivity for me since I`ll be able to code on one screen and constantly refresh the view in IE/FF on the other browser.

[Doug]

I remember my friend doing this a couple years ago. That was the first time I'd ever seen it done. I have a couple old school monotors lying around, I should give it a try. I'm sure it would increase my productivity since I am constantly swiching between screens and usually have about 367 things open at once. Give or take a little.

[Cutter]

One thing I've been using before this is Litestep. It has a virtual desktop built into it so there are four "virtual" screens you can easily swap between. The downside is that you can see more than one at a time.

So far this is working nicely. However, I think I'd rather have one of those big widescreen lcds so that my image isn't cut down the center.

[michael_gersitz]

My 17" is getting real old, to bad I am poor and can't even afford 1 new monitor... :(

[Ben]

http://img226.imageshack.us/img226/4818/p10002217vs.jpg

That is cool

[Doug]

Someone has a lot of extra money lying around.

[James]

Hmm I have 3 extra 17'' monitors in this room. I should go 2 rows 2 columns of screens :D

Photoshop / Notepad / Firefox / MSN

[Todd W]

Those look like relatively cheap monitors.. like $1k for all or less.

[r2d2]

Someone has a lot of extra money lying around.

Not enough for a mouse mat though :rolleyes:

[Cutter]

You can get used CRTs dirt cheap these days. If you look in the right places you can get 21"ers for free.

Does anyone else here always have an obnoxious number of programs/windows open at once? At any given time I usually have 12-14 windows open, plus Firefox which has a minimum of 10 tabs open. Its a huge mess, even with two monitors!

[Todd W]

You can get used CRTs dirt cheap these days. If you look in the right places you can get 21"ers for free.

Does anyone else here always have an obnoxious number of programs/windows open at once? At any given time I usually have 12-14 windows open, plus Firefox which has a minimum of 10 tabs open. Its a huge mess, even with two monitors!

I try tok eep it to a minimum.
Normally just GAIM and FireFox.

When i`m working it's the above + DW and PS.

[Masetek]

Looking at my desktop now I have..

Firefox (8tabs), Thunderbird, Ultraedit, PS, Filezilla, Bitlord

Thats about the norm :)

[James]

I was thinking that four monitor setup would be more around $2000.00
It would be around here, at least.

[Doug]

For me, even $1000 would be a lot of extra money for something like that. I usually have about 4 webpages loading at once (dial up :( ) and probably about 2 or 3 more just kind of chilling that I'm looking at. I usually have msn up but rarely have it set where people can see I'm on. I also usually have a couple other programs open so I guess I'm guilty of having a bunch of junk open too.

[Masetek]

LCD's are getting very cheap here now. My 19in set be back $400 AUD. So thats only $1600 for a 4 monitor setup (about $1200 USD). Still, for now Im happy with my single monitor

[Cutter]

Just go with CRTs for now and save (or better yet, earn more money) so you can buy LCDs later.

[s2kinteg916]

Dual monitors for me increased productivity 2 fold.

Go with lcd's they are cheap nowadays you can get a pair for 300 to 400 dollars if you like the 1280 resolution.

I have crt's right now because i am waiting for the 21 widescreens to go below 500 bucks so i can buy two. I might wait even longer and hookup 3 19's since my desk doesnt have that much room. I have my resolution set at 1600x1200 and if i can go higher i might even go up one...

[r2d2]

I know a lot of video cards have dual video out for dual monitors, but how are people supplying 3 or 4 monitors with a signal?

[Cutter]

I believe you need two cards, although there are a select few video cards that have more than two outputs

[chromate]

I have a dell 24" widescreen LCD that I've been using for a few months now. It's really really nice. Not sure it's increased my productivity (never really work that intensely anyway ;)), but it's nice to have the extra screen space and have windows side by side.