What's the optimum number/combination of screens?
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
A 32" monitor would be sweet with 2840x2160 (4x HD) resolution, but I would still want a second monitor to put secondary or status programs on. Also it helps when debugging fullscreen programs. If money were not an issue, because the 32" monitors run ~$3500 US, the 32" and a 24" on the side. I currently run a 30" and a 24", I tried adding a third monitor, a 24" monitor, but its just too much. I didn't use it, and ironically my real desktop workspace was more valuable to me than the value the extra monitor provided. I don't know what you are running now, but with the 30" 2560x1600, I can maximize Visual Studio, display the solution explorer, and 3 columns of code, leaving plenty of room at the top or bottom for debug and status info panes. Any more than that and it seems to become distracting. Good luck on your selection.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I think my current main monitor at work is 27" (2560x1440 iMac) and my secondary screen is 15" (2880x1800 MacBook). I suppose it'd be nice to instead have two 27" thunderbolt displays, but what I have right now works very well for me. I typically have a Windows VM taking over the main screen, with Visual Studio on half of the screen and a browser open on the other half. The secondary screen usually has a browser open with some essential tabs (email, tasks list) and depending on what I'm doing an IM window or document.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I have two 22" monitors, one portrait and the other landscape. Wouldn't go back to one monitor, no matter what size, because two is just more flexible: you can "maximise" an app on each, so VS on the landscape for lines and tools and properties; with chrome open on the portrait for lots of lines. Possibly one more 22 would be better, but then I'd have to move my head a fair amount to see what's going on...
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I must be cursed when it comes to multiple monitors. I tried it a couple of years ago. Every time the workstation restarted, the monitor configuration, settings, and icons would get hosed. It was probably just my video card, as others seem to have no problems.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I would go with two... I have one 21" Dell monitor and one 22" Dell monitor that are hooked to my main station, one is 1680x1050 and the bigger one is 1920x1080. I think the combination works out well, even though I got the monitors at different times. I've been toying with the idea of replacing them with 2 24" monitors, and at one point I was thinking about 3 30" monitors, but I couldn't bring myself to drop $1500 on the monitors and video card necessary.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
Two monitors seems to work reasonably well! Sometimes when I'm working another screen seems like it would really be nice to have but those are rare times and doesn't justify getting the third screen.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
Two 24" monitors (1920x1200). I would never want anything smaller or of different sizes. But next time I'll make sure they can be tilted to portrait mode. And maybe 27".
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I have four, one really small on my left and three across. It's too many, I never use them. I think three is optimal, one big one in the middle and one either side. That leaves one for chat, one for docs or side tasks, and one for your main IDE.
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I have four, one really small on my left and three across. It's too many, I never use them. I think three is optimal, one big one in the middle and one either side. That leaves one for chat, one for docs or side tasks, and one for your main IDE.
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Christian Graus wrote:
That leaves one for chat, one for docs or side tasks, two for CodeProject and one for your main IDE.
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*grin* I use CP in my main window. I also read mail in my main window. That way, I do it when I feel like I have a moment and it's not an always present distraction. Esp when I'm helping in forums and people ask questions, if I could see those while coding, it might make me stop to help.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
JMK89 wrote:
What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I have a big screen in the middle and two smaller screens, one on each side, sometimes a laptop in front of the monitor on the left, sometimes a cat wanting attention in front of the monitor in the middle. Ideally, I'd like three big screens, all side by side. No wait. Ideally, I want something like this[^] Marc
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
At the moment I have 3 24" screens side by side And a Tv connected as well tough I only turn that one on when I watch a movie or something. Couldn't go back to 2 but 3 24" is a bit much, usually don't use all the space on them but for those rare occasions I do use everything it's very handy. Ideally, see Marc's link :)
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
2 - 24" They suit my needs of having one for an app like visual studio and one for reference material.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
For my department, I choose 2 x 4:3 screens, default 1280x1024 resolution. It works fantastic for development, and a second screen is a must. Whenever I work with a 'widescreen' I curse it, the space just seems to big use effiently: too much eye movement horizontally, too little space vertically. It is great for movies, but not for working. It is also too small to split into two.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I have a pair of 24" (1920x1200) monitors in front of me, with two satellite 19" monitors (1440x900). All are mounted on monitor arms so I can positioning them flexibly - the 19" monitors are stacked on top of each other to the right of the main two. I tend to use the satellite monitors mostly for RDP sessions while I work in VS or whatever on the main two. It works pretty well - I find the layout pretty much ideal, quite honestly.
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JMK89 wrote:
What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I have a big screen in the middle and two smaller screens, one on each side, sometimes a laptop in front of the monitor on the left, sometimes a cat wanting attention in front of the monitor in the middle. Ideally, I'd like three big screens, all side by side. No wait. Ideally, I want something like this[^] Marc
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I run 3 additional screens from my laptop, 2 are on USB -> DVI extenders. The original Laptop screen has unimportant stuff on it like emails etc. Then I have two 23" 1920 x 1080 screens for development, and finally I have a 19" 1280 x 1024 touch screen for testing the application on. Most of my time is spent working withg the two 23" screens ~A
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
I recommend three always. Not so much for work, but because flight and racing sim's are SO much better with the extra FOV. If it wasn't for them, I like to work with two 22" screens, one rotatable set mainly to portrait and one landscape. Portrait mode is surprisingly good for code work, and is much, much better for doc reading. When not simming, the portrait monitor is precariously blanaced above the landscape monitor as I rarely use them both at once in work mode, so moving my head to focus on the other monitor acts like a trigger that my focus is shifting. I spent a long while playing around though, and would say what's best for me is no good for other folks in the office or at home, so it's definitely down to personal preference.
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Nearing completion of a job, and when it's done upgrading my computer and I'm thinking about screens. Should I go for one massive (32") screen, a biggish screen and a smaller one (say a 24" 16:10 and 19" 4:3) or three smaller screens (19" 16:10). At the moment I have my laptop (1366x768 (ugh)) and a second dell screen (1280x1024). What do you guys have, and what would you want to have?
A 2x2 grid of 24" screens at 1080p is great for software devs, especially if you are on multiple projects. Over time you do find ways to optimize using the real estate. Anyone who says 4 is too many didn't use them for long enough. If I were to start over, I would replace the 4 with a single 50" 4K, like this 4K Seiki. Takes up the same space on your office desk, and you could use something like Gridy to define snappable desktop areas. Imagine expanding a single large excel sheet on that thing. Terry
