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Call me a masochist, but I have a single 13" monitor where I write all my code (that's my macbook screen).

by antirez 17y ago

jamesbritt 17y ago
A few years ago I thought about moving back to the east coast, and stayed with my brother outside of D.C. Since most everything went into storage, my development machine was a Toshiba Portege 3440 with a 12" 1920x1200 WUXGA screen. (Great machine, BTW) I worked this way for about 2 or 3 months, and loved it. I got accustomed to switching desktops and console sessions and toggling about. Now I use a Dell Lattitude with a 15" 1920x1200 screen, and a 24" 1920x1200 monitor attached. And I have my Windows and Mac boxen sharing a keyboard (Endurapro 104 "clacky" keyboard with built-in clit mouse) and 24" 1920x1200 monitor as well. The second monitor has its advantages (I can keep a nice busy set of IRC channels always in view) but I still tend to work via desktop toggling. Increasing familiarity with screen (and now tmux) is playing a role as well.
- antirez 17y ago
  The second monitor is useful indeed, I tried it for a couple of months, but to switch is too much work for my eyes. I guess what I should really try is to use a very big monitor, so that I can have for instance the xterms in one side, IRC in another place of the screen, and so on, all visible, with a goal: instead of a notification I can see what is happening in the other windows, and chances are I don't need to take any action at all. Btw using an external monitor I lost the "portability" benefits of the macbook, and I'm used to work on the balcony when it's sunny :) This poses another problem btw, the contrast is too low with the macbook display.
vicaya 17y ago
I get surprising (to me) amount of stuff done on my 10" netbook (a $200 dell mini 10v) with vim and git, while the kids are asleep, though my "main" dev setup is a 18.4" laptop + a 24".

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Call me a masochist, but I have a single 13" monitor where I write all my code (that's my macbook screen).

by antirez 17y ago

Call me a masochist, but I have a single 13" monitor where I write all my code (that's my macbook screen).

jamesbritt 17y ago
A few years ago I thought about moving back to the east coast, and stayed with my brother outside of D.C. Since most everything went into storage, my development machine was a Toshiba Portege 3440 with a 12" 1920x1200 WUXGA screen. (Great machine, BTW) I worked this way for about 2 or 3 months, and loved it. I got accustomed to switching desktops and console sessions and toggling about. Now I use a Dell Lattitude with a 15" 1920x1200 screen, and a 24" 1920x1200 monitor attached. And I have my Windows and Mac boxen sharing a keyboard (Endurapro 104 "clacky" keyboard with built-in clit mouse) and 24" 1920x1200 monitor as well. The second monitor has its advantages (I can keep a nice busy set of IRC channels always in view) but I still tend to work via desktop toggling. Increasing familiarity with screen (and now tmux) is playing a role as well.
- antirez 17y ago
  The second monitor is useful indeed, I tried it for a couple of months, but to switch is too much work for my eyes. I guess what I should really try is to use a very big monitor, so that I can have for instance the xterms in one side, IRC in another place of the screen, and so on, all visible, with a goal: instead of a notification I can see what is happening in the other windows, and chances are I don't need to take any action at all. Btw using an external monitor I lost the "portability" benefits of the macbook, and I'm used to work on the balcony when it's sunny :) This poses another problem btw, the contrast is too low with the macbook display.
vicaya 17y ago
I get surprising (to me) amount of stuff done on my 10" netbook (a $200 dell mini 10v) with vim and git, while the kids are asleep, though my "main" dev setup is a 18.4" laptop + a 24".