Advantage of having more than one monitor?

[Kalivos]

What is the advantage? :shrug: Besides more desk space. :o

[TheGreySpectre]

more deskspace, view multiple windows at the same time, have monitoring programs up while your playing games, run jedi academy at 2400x600 resolution, watch dvds while checking email and surfing the web, run winamp visualizations while doing other stuff. some highend 3d programs support multiple monitors

I find that the main advantage is having multiple full size windows open at the same time. Its definatly worth trying.

[stupidspoons]

I find it really nice to have if you are intodesigning stuff. cuz u can have two programs up soo u dont always have to minimize one to look at the other. or i usually have all of my messengers on one screen and like secondary programs on one and like surf the net with the other one soo all of your messages dont go in the way of what ur trying to do on the net.

[L337 M33P]

Dual monitors = win

Nearly identical/identical dual monitors > sliced bread

That is all.

[hafa]

I've been using two monitors for years and going back to a single monitor is like being locked in a closet. I commonly have 12 or more programs running simultaneously, each with its own suite of toolbars. Multiple monitors allows me to see related data in disparate programs at a glace, plus I can keep my toolbars out of the working area. If you select monitors with ultra-thin bezels, the space between the viewable area is minimized, hence better simulating a single large monitor.

Multiple monitors can allow "surround gaming" for those applications which support it. The new workstation I'm building will use an SLI MB in non-SLI mode to use two video cards to drive three monitors. This is a great feature for simulators, since you can put the left right and center views on their respective monitors.

[Mr_Fuchs]

maybe this was only because of age


but back in the day I had a 1ghz p3 with 1gig of ram , with an nvidia mx440---

it had normal output and dvi output. When i tried to move my tv card to monitor 2, or windows media player, and do anything else on the original monitor it would shrink or be distorted if i tried to game on one.

[Emon]

What the others have said. At first you won't use your other display(s) much, but within a week or so you'll have all sorts of applications on both monitors. I mainly use mine for Foobar2000 since I listen to music so much, and it's great for designing stuff too. I'll have a PDF whitepaper on my left monitor and SketchUp on the other monitor. Much easier than flipping back and forth to find dimensions or something.

[Mr_Fuchs]

^ they were both 17inch viewsonics, one graphic series one pro.. as far as i can tell identical except for their names.

[hibner]

I do alot of CAD drafting, and it is nice to work on one monitor and have all of my dialog boxes and menus on the other. A lot of times I do this in photoshop as well. Everything has its pros and cons, but I have been doing it for so long that it is a necessity now.

[jamesavery22]

2 monitors = full screen pron pic + full screan pron movie viewing simultaneously :santa:

j/k

When I did dev work at home I was spoiled with two 21"s. Could have the client window, dev suite, and IE (random reference example) all open without having to move or minimize a bunch of windows. Makes things much much easier.

[Kalivos]

I feel like a jerk now. I pretty much posted this same topic, only asking for advantages, in the correct forum for questions like this. :bang head

I forgot that I posted this here. Did get more answers though, so thanks! I'm thinking of getting myself another 17" LCD since I love this one so much! I'm using an LG Electronics L1715S, And I'm aiming towards getting a good 17" Viewsonic with DVI and using that for my gaming.