Anyone else out there get the feeling they don't have enough monitors at work? I only have 2 to work on, and for the most part its ok, but today I found myself wanting to drag things to monitors 3,4, and 5, and they weren't there.
Printable View
Anyone else out there get the feeling they don't have enough monitors at work? I only have 2 to work on, and for the most part its ok, but today I found myself wanting to drag things to monitors 3,4, and 5, and they weren't there.
I built a lab in the back and scrounged a bunch of old monitors .. i have 12 mounted on the wall in a grid. When i need a fix .. i go back there. Lol.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...I/IMG00040.jpg
Here's my office. I'm a Concrete Batch Plant and Systems Operator. Sadly I'm caped at the amount of screens required to get the job done.
I only have one monitor at work. (luckily I've got a single monitor setup for multiboxing).
Sure wish I had 4 slaves to do everything I told them. That would be a bigger benefit to me at work.
I have two 20" monitors at work, and two 27" monitors at home. I find myself being more productive when I use remote desktop from home than being at the office.
IT says I don't need bigger monitors, damn them! :)
I've not worked on a system with more than three monitors, but I like my three. My main PC at home has three on it and I've had a hard time doing anything else on any other computer.
At work i have 3x 17" screens that do the job just fine, but at home...1x 22" widescreen, 2x 22" widescreens in portrait style + 1 17" square screen (for wowwiki/wowhead etc)
at my last job i was a Drafter at an structural engineering firm, using AutoCAD all day long, and all they would let me use was 2 17" monitors....ugh! talk about a pain in the ass, i had the toolbars all on 1, and the main CAD project on the other, but a 17" for Large buildings (churches, etc) was a pain, too much scrolling the mouse or zooming in and out.... i asked for new monitors and finally got 2 more 19"s just before i left, never got to set them all up though =(
i told the new guy how lucky he was to not have to deal with just 2 17"s.
At home, 2 22"s, 1 19", 1 37". and hopefully another 19 soon, if i can find a good deal on some monitor stands (no room on my desk ahhhhhh!)
I'm a .NET developer working off a laptop. I have a 17" flatpanel at my desk, but haven't hooked it up to the docking station. It's rare that I need to be able to see more than one application at a time. At home, if I'm not multiboxing, I always have the secondary monitor off.
It's hard being a "green" multiboxer, but any place where I can save some power consumption, then I try to. Also why I software multibox, rather than hardware multibox; trying to keep things consolidated. It's definitely not a money issue, just a conscience issue.
And in summer...a heat issue in my home office. *tugs at shirt collar*