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?
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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Clinton Gallagher
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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.