Comments on: The Benefits of going Multi Monitor http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/01/18/the-benefits-of-going-multi-monitor/ North West Computer Consultancy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:09:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colin DiPonio http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/01/18/the-benefits-of-going-multi-monitor/comment-page-1/#comment-3069 Colin DiPonio Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:47:02 +0000 http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/01/18/the-benefits-of-going-multi-monitor/#comment-3069 Hi Gary I think your limited to spanning in one direction horizontal or vertical. At least with consumer video cards anyway. I wished I had gone back to dual sooner. Colin Hi Gary

I think your limited to spanning in one direction horizontal or vertical. At least with consumer video cards anyway.

I wished I had gone back to dual sooner.

Colin

]]> By: Gary F http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/01/18/the-benefits-of-going-multi-monitor/comment-page-1/#comment-3067 Gary F Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:23:17 +0000 http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/01/18/the-benefits-of-going-multi-monitor/#comment-3067 Hardware upgrades are like motorways. You start off with 2 lanes, it soon gets saturated. You build a 3rd lane... then a 4th. I'm ready for a 3rd monitor, but where do you go from there? Could turning your head more than 20 degrees be slower and more painful than Alt+Tab? My solid Ikea computer desk has a shelf just above the monitors and enough room to put a second layer of monitors up there. Not sure if the nVidia driver will support both horizontal and vertical desktop spanning at once? Or if you're on a budget there's program for a docked Windows PDA that will extend your desktop onto its tiny screen. Perhaps good enough to display a RSS feed or Task Manager! ;-) Hardware upgrades are like motorways. You start off with 2 lanes, it soon gets saturated. You build a 3rd lane… then a 4th. I’m ready for a 3rd monitor, but where do you go from there? Could turning your head more than 20 degrees be slower and more painful than Alt+Tab?

My solid Ikea computer desk has a shelf just above the monitors and enough room to put a second layer of monitors up there. Not sure if the nVidia driver will support both horizontal and vertical desktop spanning at once? Or if you’re on a budget there’s program for a docked Windows PDA that will extend your desktop onto its tiny screen. Perhaps good enough to display a RSS feed or Task Manager! ;-)

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