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?
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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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
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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've got 3 at home and at work. The 3rd is nice; but in both cases it was a lot less of a gain than the second. I briefly had 4 at work but found I never used the 4th once I got past wooting that I could. At home I've got a 2560x1600 screen flanked by a pair of 20" 1200x1600 screens (as a side note: unfortunately this is the only combination where you can get height and DPI to align in a PLP setup :sigh: ). Games, outlook, and my main browser go on the middle screen. The left is for chat, the right holds a second browser and other miscellany. At work I have a 19" 1280x1024 on the left and 22" 1680x1050's in the center and right. Outlook/Ide in the center, a browser and the app being tested on the right, chat/code diffs/etc on the right.
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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 that rather depends on what you want to use the monitor for. At work in 2010 I had a 21" for windows dev work with a 10" for email and messages only. When I work now I'm constrained to a 17" 4:3 for compatibility with the robotic interfaces and embedded systems we build. At home, I don't use multiple monitors, I use multiple PC's. Thus my media centre, which I use for television, music, video, blogging, writing novels and fb'ing, is piped through a lower cost 40" television with ample cross-room detail, such as four page simultaneous word processing, using a wifi keyboard and mouse from my easy chair. On the table beside me I often also fire up a middling Laptop with a TB drive and Core 2 Duo, which I use for actual video processing and storage. I also use this for detail work such as Gimp, while I can do Monodevelop on either. Also all my boxes are wireless, including my (exiled) Windows 7 machine in the kitchen, which I use with a 22" for MS-specific work tasks. The rest are Ubuntu, save for the Win 8.1 redundant desktop I'm prepping for sale. Incidentally, I've found VS2008 works well with 8.1, although SQL Server 2005 complains at installation. Bottom line, to give your eyes a rest use a big, single monitor, and you don't necessarily have to shell out for a monitor when TV's come with 2 or 3 hdmi ports which you can connect to a reasonable video card and which cost £300 for 40".
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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?
for at home? I got a 60" HDTV on the wall (the usual landscape). And a regular size portrait monitor at my piano/programming desk. 98 lines of text on that guy. But then, I had to get divorced to get it. So there's that :-\
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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 3 monitors and I cannot imagine going back to 1 or even 2. They're especially useful for doing peer code reviews, since I have the code up on one screen, the requirements up on another and the window for entering review comments on the last one. At work I always have between 10 and 20 applications running at once and spreading them out over multiple screens is a great way to stay sane:-) I heard that there was a study done that showed a 20% productivity improvement in going from 2 to 3 monitors. However, I think that very much depends on what work you do and how you personally work. I don't think that 4 monitors would be much of a help to me but I haven't tried it out so maybe it would be even better than 3!
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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?
I have two 27" screens plus the laptop screen. That's usually enough but sometimes I think about adding another one.
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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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I saw a nice setup with a cheap 39" TV that supported 4K resolution (3840x2160). It went for well under $1K. The user normally had lots of windows opened at once and didn't like looking around at various monitors to find what he wanted. Of course, going this route is not for everyone, and does require getting a video card that supports 4K. Still, it looked great. But it's not useful if one does 3-wide gaming. Personally, I use two 1920x1200 monitors, both in portrait mode, and have a connection to a 1080p 39" TV for watching movies, etc. It all depends on what one wants to do.
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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 use 2 monitors at least, one for development/debbuging and one for running whatever I'm developing. When in support mode, usually I have the questions in one monitor and the answers in another. I would like to add another monitor, but I doubt my laptop can handle it.
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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'm a professional games coder and I used to have two large monitors, but I rarely used the second. Now I just use a high-end laptop with a 1920x1080 screen which really is good enough. Honestly, clicking on the taskbar really is just about as simple as moving your eyeballs (do try it). Don't bother wasting your money or your desk space with more than one monitor.
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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 boss with 2x 30" monitors, it's pretty impressive, but I don't know if it's optimal. My personal best setup was 4 monitors in a 2x2 configuration. However, I don't feel like this is "optimal" either. My personal ideal would be a large central screen with 4 "surrounding" screens that are a step smaller. The smaller screens would be useful for various production dashboards and build dashboards as well as pulling up docs.
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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?
Here is a company's web site that allows you to link multiple monitors to your computer: "http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/displayport"
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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 19" 1440x900 LCDs, both landscape, and would like to add a third. Bigger monitors can be nice, but I'd rather have the physically segregated visual space. As to whether that third monitor would be landscape or portrait, I'm agnostic. But if I had a FOURTH, I'd probably put portraits on the left and right (browser, Outlook, and Acrobat/Word) and two landscapes in the center.
