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Okay, after reading through this thread, there seems to be an interesting trend. Almost everyone has beefy processors and lots of memory .... but it is all hook

Okay, after reading through this thread, there seems to be an interesting trend. Almost everyone has beefy processors and lots of memory .... but it is all hooked up to a 19" monitor. Sure, there are people with the 27" iMacs and 30" monitors, but they sure seem a lot less than I would have guessed. For those of you still using laptop screens, 19" monitors or even 22" monitors, have you tried something bigger? The difference in my productivity between a 30" or 2x24" monitors and the screen on my laptop is palatable. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that given all the cloud computing these days, I'd take a slow system without much memory as my local box if I could get a bigger monitor for it.

robryan 16y ago
I'm the other way, 24 and 22inch monitors with a relatively average machine these days.
- tudorw 16y ago
  Definitely one of my most productive upgrades has been more monitors, I run a 24" in portrait to my left, great for text editing and reading, centre I run a 24" in landscape, to the right I have a 20" attached to a different system and a 8 inch mimo under the center screen to throw media onto, the whole lot rigged to a powered sit/stand workstation :) Downside is power consumption, upside is I don't have to use the light switch as it never goes dark in here... Here's a bit from m$ on the benefits of multi-screen; http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx I remember reading somewhere else that the results of m$'s study into the productivity benefits of larger or more screens did not hit an upper limit. I also design websites now and again and it's great to just drag a page around and preview it on different screen sizes in 'reality', mapping the 'visible' window on a larger monitor is not quite the same thing.

robryan 16y ago

I'm the other way, 24 and 22inch monitors with a relatively average machine these days.

tudorw 16y ago
Definitely one of my most productive upgrades has been more monitors, I run a 24" in portrait to my left, great for text editing and reading, centre I run a 24" in landscape, to the right I have a 20" attached to a different system and a 8 inch mimo under the center screen to throw media onto, the whole lot rigged to a powered sit/stand workstation :) Downside is power consumption, upside is I don't have to use the light switch as it never goes dark in here... Here's a bit from m$ on the benefits of multi-screen; http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/vibe.aspx I remember reading somewhere else that the results of m$'s study into the productivity benefits of larger or more screens did not hit an upper limit. I also design websites now and again and it's great to just drag a page around and preview it on different screen sizes in 'reality', mapping the 'visible' window on a larger monitor is not quite the same thing.