Re: Multiple Monitors

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

ha ha...  You need to shop for new monitors, Doug.  Or a new video card.

Doug Palme wrote:
>    1920x1200 Geesh what is your vision 20/05? Hell I am lucky to see and read
>    at 800x600.
>
>    From:    "Douglas Handy" <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>                                
>    To:      "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
>    Date:    07/30/2008 12:48 PM                                               
>    Subject: Re: Multiple Monitors                                             
>
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>
>    Aaron,
>
>    Hmm... you may have just intrigued me to try a 24" monitor.  Now I just
>    have
>    > to justify it to the boss :-)
>
>    I picked up a 24" monitor for only $249 on a Black Friday sale last fall,
>    and have it running in 1920 x 1200. Then I have next to it a 20" in
>    landscape mode, running 1200x1600.  As John notes, portrait mode is
>    actually
>    very good for documents, PDFs, and code windows.  You can get a lot of
>    height in 1600 pixels vertical.
>
>    I've been using multiple monitors for about a decade, and can't hate when
>    I
>    have to work off a single monitor such as my laptop even though it also is
>    1920x1200 so can pack a lot on the screen.
>
>    On the KVM note, for those that have a desktop machine AND a laptop
>    sitting
>    > right next to one another, there is a cool utility called Synergy that
>
>    Another option is MaxiVista  ( http://www.maxivista.com ) which can not
>    only
>    do the software based KVM like Synergy, but you can use the display(s) on
>    the other PC as if additional monitors on the host computer.
>
>    Doug
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