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post #16 of 23
7/13/10 at 1:10pm
Warning: once you go multi-monitors, everything else just doesn't seem right. I went dual wide screens at work last year and it rocks. Home is just not the same now.
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post #17 of 23
7/13/10 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by Piobaire View Post
Warning: once you go multi-monitors, everything else just doesn't seem right. I went dual wide screens at work last year and it rocks. Home is just not the same now.
Same here. I have had two monitors at work for the past few years, there is no way I can go back to one. Home is not the same for me either.
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post #18 of 23
7/13/10 at 7:41pm
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I've been using ATI since the 9800 and I never had any problems. !luc
To be fair, both ati and nvidia have switches places a couple of times since the 9800 in regards to launch and driver issues. The biggest stumbling block was the total rewrite needed for vista, of course. Such is the nature of an industry with such a rapid pace of change and feature improvement. I don't know why, but my natural bias is towards nvidia.
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post #19 of 23
7/14/10 at 12:31pm
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To be fair, both ati and nvidia have switches places a couple of times since the 9800 in regards to launch and driver issues. The biggest stumbling block was the total rewrite needed for vista, of course. Such is the nature of an industry with such a rapid pace of change and feature improvement.

I don't know why, but my natural bias is towards nvidia.
I went straight from XP to 7, that may explain why I never had any driver issue.
!luc
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post #20 of 23
7/14/10 at 1:14pm
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I have three screens at work (but also two computers on my desk). Important -- just don't go out and get a second monitor, make sure you use identical monitors, e.g, exact same model and such, or you'll go nuts.
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Hmm, this is not quite true. If your graphic card is not too old, you can manage each monitor individually.
The point is that if you have different bezels, different screens, different anything, it will be annoying going back and forth between the monitors with your eyes. I did it for a while. Not recommended. Also, even though the monitors can be managed individually it's hard enough getting the contrast/brightness/color identical between the two when they are the same make. When they're not it's virtually impossible. ~H
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post #21 of 23
7/14/10 at 1:20pm
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The point is that if you have different bezels, different screens, different anything, it will be annoying going back and forth between the monitors with your eyes. I did it for a while. Not recommended.

Also, even though the monitors can be managed individually it's hard enough getting the contrast/brightness/color identical between the two when they are the same make. When they're not it's virtually impossible.

~H

Several posts before yours somehow made me think that you were talking about configurability.
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post #22 of 23
7/14/10 at 1:28pm
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The biggest issue with different monitors(for me) is the color difference. 2 monitors of the same brand and the same size can drastically different colors. You'd think calibration would alleviate this problem, but it just isn't the case unfortunately. That sort of thing may or may not bother you though.

This. Our creatives that use triple monitors often order 6 at a time to get the three with the most equal color balance, least light bleed etc. Mind you they are doing color-critical work.
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post #23 of 23
7/14/10 at 1:57pm
The monitors should either be identical or radically different.

At work I use an external monitor and my laptop screen at the same time. The top of the laptop screen only comes to the halfway point on the monitor and since its a laptop, it is very sensitive to viewing angle. I have it set up in windows so the mouse/dragged items move rather smoothly (middle of the external screen is lined up with top of laptop in the control panel).

This has the benefit of trapping the mouse in the top right corner--when I jam the mouse up there to close a window, it doesn't slide over to the 2nd screen and instead closes the window like you would expect on a single monitor (corner clicks count as hitting the X even though the mouse is not visibly on it). This has inspired me to make a small offset in the control panel even when I use equally matched monitors...set it down a few pixels and the mouse will still "stick" in the corner but you won't really notice it when going back and forth.

Using 2 monitors that are the same size but different sucks though...I used a roommate's monitor for a while while he was gone one summer and it was the same size as my primary monitor but had much worse color...it was really annoying.
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