Which monitors for the tech. team?

[Nibiru]

Left to right

 

Philips 190B (management console open on it)

Acer X223W (main working screen)

Hans G HW 191D (the important one - has the music selection on it!)

Neuvo E191 (sticky notes to remind me to do various things)

 

 

All cast offs from around the school.

 

Why do I have 4? because I havent worked out how to get 5 on the desk Having got use to a big desktop area its horrible trying to go back to a single screen setup.

 

I did have some pupils come in a few weeks ago asking if they could use my desk for the lair of the power crazed madman in the play they were filming for their English project....

[scotyboy56]

13" Laptop screen

[sonofsanta]

There is something specifically more useful about dual monitor than single widescreen that I can't put my finger on.

 

My resolution is effectively 2560 x 1024 - so a single 27" 2560 x 1440 would give me more real estate. But the separation of the screens makes it feel like I can have more open - I can have two full screen programs, not two half-size, which is a ludicrous distinction to make but it's there. More practically it does make it easier (in Windows 7) to have 4 snapped windows side by side, whereas a single big monitor would only support 2.

[simpsonj]

Dual 22" Hanns G monitors here. Couldn't go back to a single screen. Email is always open on one screen, and the ability to be able to remote onto different servers/workstations and have them on a separate screen is too invaluable to lose. Would happily go for 3 or 4 screens, but I've got a Mac on my desk as well, so my third screen is taken up by that.

[F3000]

We recently upgraded ours and was debating between two smaller screens or one single, larger screen and ended up with a single 24" Ben-Q each in the end (with the possibility of adding a second screen at some point of course!)

[mrbios]

I have 3 x Dell 24" screens, can't remember which model but they're ultra slim bezel + IPS. Best bit about them is the stands. I'm not a fan of Dell by any means, would say i dislike the brand to be honest, but i have to admit they've always made some cracking monitors.

So what's the big attraction of dual and triple monitor setups?

Depends on the job you do. Personally i tend to have RDP sessions, multiple web pages, budget sheets, vcenter and more open at once. It makes it a lot easier to do your work efficiently when you can access two or three of those things at once. Although personally my emails pretty much never leave my left hand screen, stuff gets opened over the top then moved out of the way when im done with it.

Edited March 26, 2015 by mrbios

[HTCPCP]

I have dual Hanns-G 22" wide screens, my boss has dual 19" N.A.R Hanns-G monitors. The back wall has 4 24" Iiyama wide screens set up in a square so we can monitor, the far wall has the 27" Mac (the most expensive web browsing machine ever?) and a 18.5" monitor for the DHCP server for the transparent proxy, the CCTV system servers, the package builder machine and a test rig. Then we have a 22" TV for the media encoding machine/Freeview box/DVD recorder etc, as well as a spare VGA cable so we can build machines in the office and finally an 18.5" monitor purched on top of the servers in the rack so that if it all goes pete tong, then we don't have to play hunt the monitor. Yeah, we seem to do all right for monitors in here...