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| Topic Started: Thursday, 19. July 2012, 14:43 (608 Views) | |
| Cody | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 14:43 Post #1 |
 
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I've always thought it'd be awesome to have two of the exact same monitor next to each other and be able to use them both to design. I find myself foolishly fumbling around my windows often and clicking the wrong things, so it'd be nice to be able to have Photoshop in one monitor and other things in the other. I've used a TV before, but if any of you have ever done that you'll know that a TV is certainly nothing to be designing on.  Does anyone here have the desire to dual-monitor, or even the present capabilities to do so? If you do, do you find it useful or just bulky and taking up twice as much desk space?
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| Geoffrey | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 15:00 Post #2 |
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I just want one good monitor... I won't be greedy and ask for two.  It would be nice to have two screens though, would indeed save a lot of time. |
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| Aidan | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 15:08 Post #3 |
 
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Maximized multi-tasking sounds nice. My cousin had his friend create a dual-monitor for him with two old desktop computers. It was neat considering I had never heard of, nor seen, it before. |
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| Cody | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 15:17 Post #4 |
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I know that when I have both my desktop and my laptop going next to each other, I'm much more organized when I can put my chats on one and my designs on the other.
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| Viral | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 21:05 Post #5 |
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It's funny you say that actually, I was trying to hook my laptop up to my tv via an HDMI cable yesterday. Everything was working as it should except there was no display xD. So booted into Linux and that worked fine - except the display shut off after 5 seconds ... Was going to try it with my desktop today until I realised the cables were too old and aren't compatible with my laptop :< . But yeah, I'm looking into getting a new monitor for this when I move back to uni in October. Not for designing, but coding as I usually have 5 windows or so open I feel it would be nice to test in one monitor and code in the other .
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| WingNut125 | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 23:26 Post #6 |
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I have two monitors at my work and I think it's absolutely fantastic. I'm always disappointed when I have to remote desktop to my work computer because I never have a second screen to work with. Having a second monitor just makes things so much easier. Often times I have to run test cases and it's a lot easier to have the documentation up on one monitor and the software I'm testing on the other monitor. The developers at my work actually get four monitors.... Now THAT is overkill lol As for at home, I don't do much coding or anything like that at home, so having a second monitor at home would be unecessary. |
| Cody | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 23:38 Post #7 |
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Four monitors... that sounds like geek heaven. 
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| Jeoffrey | Thursday, 19. July 2012, 23:55 Post #8 |
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I use this on this. Jk I use a laptop. I think using dual screens would be pretty cool, but a weird adjustment.
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| WingNut125 | Friday, 20. July 2012, 00:08 Post #9 |
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Haha, yeah. On one hand, I really want that setup. On the other hand, I think to myself "What the hell would I do with four monitors?" |
| Jeoffrey | Friday, 20. July 2012, 00:13 Post #10 |
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Watch four different movies, just because you can. |
| Joe | Friday, 20. July 2012, 03:10 Post #11 |
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I do this regularly, actually. Entire code for Smash Camp was coded using my tv as a dual monitor.. it's nice not having to worry about word wrap or any of that. I just straight-up use a vga cable to the 24" LED HDTV on my desk. It's nice having a ginormous screen for seeing large portions of scripts. Usually I have Sublime Text (which I love because the background of the editing screen is dark and doesn't get blinding to look at over time like a regular white text editor would) or Notepad++ on the big screen specifically for coding, and all of the other applications are on my actual laptop's screen. |
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| Cody | Friday, 20. July 2012, 13:57 Post #12 |
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Using a VGA cable you wouldn't get nearly as much resolution as you would with a DVI or HDMI one. I've dual-monitored with my TV, but both my TV and my monitor share the same resolution so I don't see any more on the TV than I already do my regular monitor.
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| Gabe. | Friday, 20. July 2012, 14:32 Post #13 |
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My mom does this at her job, and let's just say that it mind F*cked me pretty badly |
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| Punk | Friday, 20. July 2012, 14:44 Post #14 |
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Gaming on 1 screen, TV/Movies on the other screen, designing on the other screen, internet stuff on the last one. That's just how I'd set it up.
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| Cody | Friday, 20. July 2012, 14:47 Post #15 |
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It'd take a pretty serious CPU, RAM, and graphics card combination to be able to uphold all of those processes at once.
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| Flavius | Friday, 20. July 2012, 20:53 Post #16 |
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I only have a laptop but for a while my dad had an extra screen that he didn't use. A nice flat monitor, so I would hook it up and dual screen between monitor and laptop. I can't say there's much help in the design department because there's only 1 PS window open anyway, not likely to have more. The only real application for this came when doing research for uni and writing my papers and also when coding. |
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| Andrew | Saturday, 21. July 2012, 12:33 Post #17 |
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Actually looking into a 3rd monitor at the moment nVidia GTX 670 Intel i7-2700 overclocked to 4.2GHz 16GB of DDR3 RAM Pretty high specs if I do say so myself
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| Cody | Saturday, 21. July 2012, 16:29 Post #18 |
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Those are quite good, Pro - I'm sure your computer could handle at least three, if not four. |
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| Louisa | Saturday, 21. July 2012, 20:29 Post #19 |
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i use two monitors for designing usually, my desktop has two identical large monitors. if you like the idea of it, give it a try. you'll never look back  i use just my laptop for small things like signatures and stuff, but large designs and things for print, posters, etc. definitely dual monitors is the way forward IMO 
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| Joe | Saturday, 21. July 2012, 22:37 Post #20 |
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Hah, dang, must be a powerful motherboard if it can handle that much of ram. |
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