Comments on: 3 (or More) Monitors?

By: Brandon Eley

Brandon Eley — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:28:46 +0000

I couldnt live without dual monitors. Even though I’m on my laptop most of the time, I have a 19" LCD that extends my 15" laptop screen, giving me dual monitors. I’d love a triple-monitor setup, or just an Apple 30" Cinema display… but 2 works fine for me.

I keep my planning, correspondence, email and contact management software open in one monitor all the time. I open major programs, like Photoshop or TextEdit in the other.

By: Tanner

Tanner — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:47:20 +0000

I’d love to have 2 or more monitors, but my computer is too out of date to do that. :D

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:44:35 +0000

Thanks for the comments.

I think this page has some info:

http://www.codinghorror.com...

By: Triumvirate

Triumvirate — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:53:58 +0000

I’d love to be able to do this but I don’t have the money on me :( It’s a cool idea though and I’d love to do it in the future.

A lot of what the SitePoint guys were saying is what I would probably do. One with my browser up, one with IM/Music/Other less important stuff, and one with coding/developing type stuff up. That would seem to be the ideal situation for me.

Just out of curiosity, how does one go about setting something like this up anyway?

By: chrispian

chrispian — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:19:38 +0000

I have 2 at work and at home and I don’t know how anyone lives with just 1. I’m getting a new computer soon and I’ll be adding a 3rd to my home setup.

Being able to read/monitor one one and "do" stuff on the other two is ideal. I don’t have a set thing for each monitor, I don’t work that way. Just when I’m working on a site, for example, I can have up html / photoshop and ftp all at the same time, etc. Just depends on what I’m doing, but more screen = more productivity.