how many people work with dual monitors?

[lazeyjack]

so you cant actually work on the other? ah i get it, , I can remember when i first started( I am onto the wheels for you in 3 d

[aprilpaxton]

Many will say that having dual monitors will increase productivity by as much as 20%. The heck with percentages, I really get more work done since I got dual monitors, finally freeing me from that alt-tab routine just to switch screen.

[lewisboats]

I've upgraded since my last post...running a quad core with twin 28" I-Incs and you'd have to pry them from my cold dead computer to get them away from me. I would love to shove a 42" LCD monitor/tv in there for a threesome

[yipster]

install mem on that quad if running x64
no quad progs yet as i know?
running 2 mouses now, one old
the other from a drawing tablet
o what a revelation, to think i've
been using a 1.5 inch laptop mouse
for the last weeks, this thing
can even draw in thin air, try one!

[lewisboats]

I'm running 32 bit XP and have 4 gig ram, 3 Terrabytes of hard drive space and a Blueray player/DL DVD burner, Nvidia 9800GT video, Wireless mouse and Keyboard and logitech speakers with sub...It should do for a couple of years until upgrade time.

[yipster]

conservative eh than again its wise
anyway, congrats on the new baby

yeah, using the pen pad for the mouse as well needs some gettin use too, nice tool such a pen tho

[lewisboats]

Conservative only out of fiscal necessity, not by choice... believe me!

[nukisen]

For a couple of years ago I did make work at home and I did install double screens. In this way I could run the cad In one of them and have the partlist in the other. I did enyoj working in this way, and also my production where increased as I could have overviewing both the full cad window and have full insight of the parts at the same time.

So after a while I did suggested this to my boss that I could increase my work with a screen more.

Then he did told me I was silly!

Okej then I will do the job with the same production speed as before.

I wonder which one of us lost most.

Nowadays I think I prefer one big screen. As bigger the better if the resolution hangs on.

With widescreens the cad in almost full view and the lists in the rest gives me a very good overview and also have them together so the overview is even better.

But today I am unemployed and only uses the pc for my hobby(drawing boats) . So now I am only uses my laptop and my station with 19" screen.

[nukisen]

Yipster!
"install mem on that quad if running x64
no quad progs yet as i know?"

This is a known issue!

When Autodesk released the 2009. They did have a memory bug so my pc was often run out of mem as I was used a 32bit os. But i did figure out that if I was running two projekts with double cad windows I could open more dwg´s at a time before crashing. This caused by I did have double kernels.
So with a quad I think I could have opened even more by starting two more cad window. Wich would share the memory.
But after four months Autodesk released the fix I have been asking for since the releaseday. And the dual procesor did run awsome. But still I should prefer the quad. But they where damn expensive at that point.

[Luckless]

I'm currently stuck using a single 20 inch 1680x1050 monitor due to having moved and having to down grade my 'office' to a walk in closet. This isn't much of an upgrade from my dual 17inch CRTs.

My plan for when I move again and have the space is to built a new windows box, and make my old one a Linux system. Pick up 4 more matching monitors (If I can find proper 16x10,... damn 16x9 and your crappy wasted space!)

I'll keep a central 16x10 on the windows box, and add two vertical (10x16) screens to either side for documents. Above that will be two horizontal (16x10) monitors for the Linux box, and they will then be linked by Synergy, and have a custom desk so I can easily store the second mouse and keyboard so I can use the Linux box easily while full screened in Windows.


Why you ask? Because I can. (And it will be good for read outs and simulation display.)

[lewisboats]

Sob!...one of my monitors crapped out...I feel soooo abandoned . I'll have to wait for the old tax refund to see about getting another or fixing this one. I feel like I have a hand cut off or lost an eye. Trying to cram everything onto one tiny 28" monitor sucks! If I get the DTs too bad I suppose I could hook up the old 19" but I use that as a TV in the bedroom...hooked up to the laptop.

[marshmat]

I had to 'downgrade' to a single 20" 1680x1050 last week.... when your Toshiba laptop spontaneously drops dead in the middle of the day, then smells like capacitors when you take its cover plates off, this is Not A Good Sign.

The new rig (Phenom II x4 955, 4GB DDR3-1333, Radeon HD 5770 graphics and a striped pair of 500GB WD Caviar Black drives) is pretty sweet- everything but the hard drive scores in the sevens on the Win7 performance index. But oh, how I miss that extra monitor. (And the scanner, and the webcam, and all that other stuff that is "No longer supported by the manufacturer".... HP, Logitech, I'm lookin' at you here....)

I now run my Linux stuff in VirtualBox seamless mode, so my Linux programs and my Windows programs share the same desktop, same interface, etc. Very convenient, and they're just as thoroughly isolated as if they were on separate, networked hardware. In theory it can even tie the clipboards of the two systems together- seamless copy/paste from Win7 to Linux programs or vice-versa, although I haven't quite figured that bit out yet.

Now where can I find a couple of 30" 2560x1600 flatscreens to make proper use of this flippin' expensive graphics card....

[lewisboats]

Try I-Inc...that is what my 28s are. Max res isn't quite that high though...1920 x 1200 but that is tight enough for me at 2 1/2 ft away. Tiger Direct has an HP 30" 2560 x 1600 for $1200 each...the I-Inc is $320, which is about what I can afford right now.

[Jeff]

This past year I got a dell 3007 and am pretty pleased with it - well, that's an understatement - I can't go back. 2560 x 1600 resolution changes the way you work. The major advantage of the "cheap" dell $1300 30" over the $300 28" I-Inc for me is viewing angle which I normally don't worry about, but with the 30" it starts to come into play for me.

[Asleep Helmsman]

Member of the Dual Screen Club since 1998

I had those gigantic 19 CRTs at that time; you had to have a special desk to support them.

Fun times, the technology was changing so fast, you bought a new computer every few months or so.