This was too easy!!! I just set up a Win98 system with dual monitors. I can't believe I didn't have this before.
My total cost was $12 for a used video card.. I had an old monitor someone gave me.
Now I can keep Letterville on one monitor and my work on the other.
I can put font and color selector on one monitor and the design graphics on the other.
Does anyone have any other neat ways to use dual monitors??
ernie
Posted by Curtis hammond (Member # 2170) on :
ya, i watch my ftp, email server, and porn on one, and play video games on da other
Posted by dispatch (Member # 1053) on :
I remember reading somewhere that the newer versions of windows could support 7 (???) monitors at once
They didn't say where to get a case/motherboard to hold all those boards!
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Ernie,
My printer has his computer set up with a dual monitor system. He just loves the set up. He uses his much you use yours.
I have considered going to this kind of set up but, unfortunately, space does become an issue on my design station. Too bad for me...
Have a great one!
Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :
I had a duel monitor set-up for a couple of years and loved it for all the reasons you mentioned. But desk space became more valuable than monitor space...
And then my old monitor packed leaving me no choice but to go the ultimate route (for me)- a 19" LCD flat screen. Its big enough to hold all my digital tools and still has lots of work space and even better yet the new flat monitor takes up even less of my desk space!
-dan
Posted by Signs by Shawn (Member # 426) on :
Dan, that's exactly what happened to us...we were moving comp. around to clean, whilst inserting the monitor cable into comp. pin falls out, well that one pin controlled all the red on my monitor...not easy to design without red on your screen! So we made the choice to go flat screen, man I would never go back!!! I can't believe I didn't do it sooner, much easier on the eyes and 4 times the space on the desk.
Shawn
Posted by Ernie&DianeBalch (Member # 1301) on :
Yes... Desktop Space is the issue.
I wound up putting a 15" monitor on top of a 17" one.
I kind of like the Apple approach with a floating LCD monitor. That really gives more desk space.
I want to change over to Apple and Gerber MacImprint on Illustrator 10. But it looks like they have abandoned support for new versions.
ernie
Posted by Henry Barker (Member # 174) on :
I remember a few years ago somebody saying I would regret using a single 21" monitor...but that was never the case.
A year ago I bought a Dell Precision Workstation, with dual ATI Dual monitor card, I started with 2 21" monitors side by side, them noved one home and kept a 19" as the extra at work.
I will always have that setup now...its great, when working in Omega I have my Composer open on the 21" monitor and my GSP Plot open in monitor 2 so I am free to go thru all my open composers and see separately what jobs are outputted to which plotter, and my Edge.
Another great use is working as I do now more in Photoshop, and having e-books (Photoshop Bible etc) up in monitor 2.
I have no problem with deskspace.
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
For a while I have planned to add a second monitor by my client counter. Now, I tend to let people crowd up behind me to have design input of quick layouts, or initial design proofs when I am ok with getting the input without having to send them away, print it out, & wait for their return just to red ink stuff they could have commented on while drawing the first time.
What I hate is having them breathing down my neck, so I will put a wall between us, a sliding window (frosted maybe?, or 1-way mirror) & a monitor I can flip on to show them how things are coming together for their input.
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but to go the ultimate route (for me)- a 19" LCD flat screen. Its big enough to hold all my digital tools and still has lots of work space and even better yet the new flat monitor takes up even less of my desk space!