Who Runs dual monitors?

[itakey]

Curious to know who else runs dual monitors, and how you position them? I have 2-19" that I work from many days.

Do you keep them both straight in front of you? Or do you keep one straight on, and then tilt one off to the side? Just curious to know how other people are doing it.

I sometimes find that the light from the monitor I am not concentrating bothers me a little bit so I turn a monitor off at times based on what I am doing.

How are you guys doing it?

 

[postmortemIA]

i tilt right one by like 25 degrees, and I don't use extended monitors, but two-as-one option where taskbar and everything spreads across both of them.

 

[Samalama]

Well I have a 20" fullscreen LCD that I keep right in front, and on the right I have a 19" fullscreen CRT which is pushed up against the LCD and angled slightly. I used to also have a pair of 17" CRT's which I placed right above the other monitors. That was by far my favorite setup and the only reason I didn't keep it is because I was running a second PCI-E video card; my motherboard reduces PCI-E sppeds from 16x to 8x when both slots are used, which hurts gaming performance. As for light from adjacent monitors being a nuisance, I rarely have that problem because I use a primarily Black theme on all my Operating Systems.

Edit: Grammar

 

[itakey]

I also run them as separate monitors so I have a task bar and can drag things on either monitor. I used to run an LCD and a CRT, but eventually turned in the CRT.

Guess you guys do it how I do, with one ahead of you, and the other on about a 25 degree slant.

Lately I've been turning one of the monitors off while I work on the other since the light sometimes catches my eye in a weird way.

Do you guys use anything to calibrate the monitors so they both look exact, or just eye it? I currently just eye it. I bought a good calibrator but it turned the profiles kind of dark so I returned it.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Moi, m'sieu. Could not live without them. I use the extended desktop and both display at a 15 degree angle to one another.

 

[itakey]

Originally posted by: Dadofamunky
Moi, m'sieu. Could not live without them. I use the extended desktop and both display at a 15 degree angle to one another.

So you keep them sort of on a V? I used to do this, but then decided it was better to focus straight, and turn when I needed to look at the other monitor.

How do other do it?
Both on a slant? or one straight on and the second slanted a bit?

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: itakey

Originally posted by: Dadofamunky
Moi, m'sieu. Could not live without them. I use the extended desktop and both display at a 15 degree angle to one another.

So you keep them sort of on a V? I used to do this, but then decided it was better to focus straight, and turn when I needed to look at the other monitor.

How do other do it?
Both on a slant? or one straight on and the second slanted a bit?

at work i have 2 machines.

1 with dual 20s , and another with a 20.

basically i face the 20 of one machine, or the left face of the 2nd machine on the "corner" of my desk (its an L). the 3rd monitor i'd say gets used the least, so it is just something i turn my head to.

 

[WildW]

I seem to chop and change. At work I have two identical 17" fullscreens and they sit side by side, looking straight forwards, with the one on the left just a little more in front of me than the other.

I used to have two at home and did the one-straight-ahead, one-to-the-side-on-an-angle thing. . .mostly because for gaming I want one right in front of me.

Since I got a 22" widescreen though I haven't bothered. . . it feels almost like I have two monitors anyhow. If I'm gaming I open my little 12" laptop up by my side and use it for messenger/web/etc when I need it. Saves me alt-tabbing out.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

i have dual monitors
20.1inch in front of me & a 17in 4:3 to the right of it tilted slighty

i use ultramon to have a taskbar on the 17in secondary monitor and to use 2 diff wallpapers/2 diff screen savers.

 

[PeteRoy]

I always felt that dual monitors is a stupid idea, instead of 2 monitors get 1 big.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
I always felt that dual monitors is a stupid idea, instead of 2 monitors get 1 big.

Uh, whatever. :roll:


I keep one in front of me and the other at an angle. If I kept them both at an angle then I get a sore neck after prolonged periods of having my neck turned to an angle.

 

[frythecpuofbender]

I have a 24'' as main monitor for editing and a 22'' for the tools and palettes. the 22'' is angled like 5 degree.

 

[smb]

I have 2 setups.

1)2 22" Dell I use for PDS/Microstation, both angled slightly toward the center

2) 2 24" Gateways I use to play on. One flat in front, the other to the left slightly angled inward.

 

[Concillian]

I have 2 17" LCDs.

I keep them in a slight /\ shape and span the two screens (2560x1024). Usually I'm sizing windows so they ~ fill one monitor, and I'll roll my chair a bit to whatever side so I'm looking more straight.

I pretty much bought them for WoW, where I have the game on the left screen and all the extra add-ons on the right screen (2 Chat windows / Combat Log / Large Map / minimap / Combat Stats mod / Threatmeter). I really like having the add-ons, but they clutter valuable screen space if it's all on one monitor. This way the viewable game area is all on one monitor, and pretty clean, the "clutter" is kept to the other monitor on a static background. Performance seems to trend as if I play on a 1280x1024.

 

[LOUISSSSS]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
I always felt that dual monitors is a stupid idea, instead of 2 monitors get 1 big.

LOL u obviously never had 2 monitors before. and no we're not talking about 2 x 15 or 17 inchers.

(1680x1050)+(1280x1050) = 2960x2078

thats better than any 24in monitor @ 1900x1200. better than any 1080p. and has more horizontal resolution as a 30".

+ you can run games on the primary while monitoring your system on the secondary

 

[soccerballtux]

after getting a 24" 1920x1200 I haven't felt the need for my second monitor anymore. Only thing it's still useful for is Pidgin and Speedfan on the right monitor, so I can catch temps in case something goes wrong, or an IM from a friend, while I'm gaming. Other than that, I don't need the 2nd anymore.

I put my taskbar on the left, instead of across the bottom of the screen.

 

[postmortemIA]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
I always felt that dual monitors is a stupid idea, instead of 2 monitors get 1 big.

LOL u obviously never had 2 monitors before. and no we're not talking about 2 x 15 or 17 inchers.

(1680x1050)+(1280x1050) = 2960x2078

thats better than any 24in monitor @ 1900x1200. better than any 1080p. and has more horizontal resolution as a 30".

+ you can run games on the primary while monitoring your system on the secondary

amazing math you got there.
it is 1680x1050x2 which is 16:5 aspect ratio, hardly watchable without moving eyes and 30" LCD still has 16% more pixels. if one is landscape and other not, pixel number stays the same.

 

[nerp]

I like duals because I often slap an XviD on the second monitor while I'm writing on my main one. Or I play CS:S on the main one and watch IRC channels and have a video going on the second one. My second monitor holds my IRC channels, IM client, Torrent stuff, encoding dialogs, gadgets and other misc stuff while my main monitor usually has whatever I'm working on.

I often like to have a word document on the main monitor with my outlook client open on the second one. I keep my winamp on the second one when I'm listening to music our shoutcast streams, etc.

Duals is awesome. I couldn't imagine living without it anymore.

 

[nonameo]

My brother runs dual CRTs. His room is a facking furnace.

 

[sgrinavi]

I do a lot of CAD and 3dsMAX work. I have a pair of 24's at home (30 degree angle), but I find it tedious with a lot of head turning. For the most part I keep it disabled and just use the single. I have a pair of 20" (1600x1200) lcds at the office that works better for me.....

 

[bobsmith1492]

On my laptop I had a 1920x1200 screen and a 1680x1050 monitor; I just put them side-by-side, secondary monitor on the left.

Now I don't use the laptop, just the 1680x1050 monitor with a little 15" 1024x768 that I found somewhere. I put it to the left to toss docs on. It also rotates easily making it good for reading PDF datasheets.

 

[itakey]

I agree that 2 monitors is definitely nicer than one as my preference. I went and bought a 24" about a year ago and was so proud and ready to turn in my dual 19's. Come to find out that I wasn't gaining much, and I hated the idea that I didn't have that split any longer. I sometimes will remote desktop into a second machine and will open it on one machine. So not only do I share monitors across 2 machines that are both capable of running both monitors at once, but I also remote desktop into other computers.

I personally work off my machines, I don't game. If my machine was strictly personal for gaming and movies I would probably prefer the 1 screen, but for work it is minimum 2!!!

 

[Weiser]

Originally posted by: PeteRoy
I always felt that dual monitors is a stupid idea, instead of 2 monitors get 1 big.

Or dual monitors with one big included

I run 20" (1600x1200) and 30" (2560x1600) with the 20" aspect ratio flipped. That way i have 3760x1200.

I have a corner desk and the 30" sits in the corner with the 20" to the left at about a 30° angle to make for comfortable viewing sitting at my desk.

Noob poster....like how I joined in 2006 and haven't posted for almost 2 years?

 

[conlan]

Yup, 1- 19" LCD straight ahead, and 1- 17" CRT to the right and angled towards me.

 

[n7]

Yeah.

3760x1600
The far right side 20" is hooked up to the secondary PC.