Dual monitor rocks

**s2kinteg916** · 01-08-2005, 07:14 PM

i picked up a visiontek 9600xt with dual output and hooked up my roommates monitor to see how fun dual monitors would be and boy it rocks.....

i bet it increases productivity by at least 20% or so.....

**s2kinteg916** · 01-09-2005, 01:20 AM

There are many quantitative as wall as qualitative advantages to Multi-Screen Computing:
>>Increases overall productivity: 20%-50%
>>Solid ROI: 9X Media Productivity Multi-Screens: averages several months
>>Happier and healthier users: More natural relationship between user and their resources

http://www.9xmedia.com/Pages/Multi-s...dvantages.html

**Billyray** · 01-09-2005, 01:52 AM

s2K have you tried out any games with it?

**s2kinteg916** · 01-09-2005, 09:47 AM

Yes i have.... it only works on one screen though.... at least for me..

**Mike** · 01-09-2005, 10:03 AM

What does dual monitors do? Why's it improve your productivity?

**MarkB** · 01-09-2005, 10:15 AM

Gives you twice as much screen space, I think. Although I've no idea how it works

How do you move your mouse from one to t'other?

**Mike** · 01-09-2005, 01:12 PM

That's what I was wondering

**incka** · 01-09-2005, 01:17 PM

I've seen one in operation before, it just worked as one large monitor.

**thebillionaire** · 01-09-2005, 01:23 PM

how would it improve your productivity? its just a bigger screen.

**MarkB** · 01-09-2005, 02:03 PM

Saves alt-tabbing I suppose

**r2d2** · 01-09-2005, 02:14 PM

Things like having Dreamweaver maximised on one screen, and Firefox maximised on the other, or maybe Photoshop. Or maybe have the help pages for something.

Yeah, it just works like one big monitor - instead of stopping at the right hand edge, the mouse pointer would just move over onto the right hand screen. I have it on my computer, but have the other screen plugged into the TV for watching movies - I have multiscreen disabled normally.

**Mike** · 01-09-2005, 03:24 PM

I think I would find that quite hard to get used to

**incka** · 01-09-2005, 03:44 PM

I think I would get used to it quite quickly, it would be good for playing movies on if your screens had very small plastic borders... A real 2:1 screen like at the cinema...

**r2d2** · 01-09-2005, 03:49 PM

Its the kind of thing that would take a bit of getting used to, but once you get used to it, going back would be quite painful... A bit like the IE to Firefox change.

**incka** · 01-09-2005, 04:01 PM

Whoo! Firefox! (Sorry, I couldn't help myself, it really does rock though, so much better than IE).

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