Comments on: Two screens are better than one and three are even better … http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:24:31 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1-beta1 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Anonymous Wed, 04 Jul 2007 22:19:38 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/#comment-224 Have a look at the Matrox products (www.matrox.com/graphics), the P series & above support multiple widescreen monitors. Cheers Paul Have a look at the Matrox products (www.matrox.com/graphics), the P series & above support multiple widescreen monitors.

Cheers

Paul

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/comment-page-1/#comment-223 Anonymous Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:30:49 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/#comment-223 Nice write-up, Steve. I posted a little about my setup at the lnk below. Just waiting for the PC card to support multiple 24" wide-screen displays. :-) http://www.ericmackonline.com/ica/blogs/emonline.nsf/dx/multiple-displays-boost-productivity-20-to-30? Thanks for your helpful and informative write-ups. Eric Nice write-up, Steve. I posted a little about my setup at the lnk below. Just waiting for the PC card to support multiple 24″ wide-screen displays. :-)

http://www.ericmackonline.com/ica/blogs/emonline.nsf/dx/multiple-displays-boost-productivity-20-to-30?

Thanks for your helpful and informative write-ups.

Eric

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/comment-page-1/#comment-222 Anonymous Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:07:34 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/#comment-222 After reading your earlier blog Steve on 3 monitors I have recently moved from a dual monitor setup to a 3 monitor setup and similar to yourself use 2 x ATI cards (1 AGP and 1 PCI) which are dual head cards allowing 4 monitors. Again from reading your blog I picked up on the UltraMon software. I certainly wouldn't go back to a dual monitor setup let alone a single monitor setup. I have found it so much easier to cope with VM's and build docs at home now. <a href="http://www.mccomas.co.uk/comp/DSC00196.JPG" rel="nofollow">A quick pic of my 3 screen setup.</a> After reading your earlier blog Steve on 3 monitors I have recently moved from a dual monitor setup to a 3 monitor setup and similar to yourself use 2 x ATI cards (1 AGP and 1 PCI) which are dual head cards allowing 4 monitors.

Again from reading your blog I picked up on the UltraMon software. I certainly wouldn’t go back to a dual monitor setup let alone a single monitor setup. I have found it so much easier to cope with VM’s and build docs at home now.

A quick pic of my 3 screen setup.

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/comment-page-1/#comment-221 Anonymous Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:59:14 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/#comment-221 I use Ultramon to help me manage applications, it adds property panes to a shortcuts properties that allow me to configure the monitor an application opens on and the size it opens. In addition it allows me to easily move applications between displays and adds taskbars to each display, the task bars are configured to only display the applications on that display. I have two graphics cards, one AGP and one PCI these are both from ATI and both have a VGA and a DVI connector so in theory I could connect 4 displays. If you want to do this with a laptop then you could use a device from matrox, I think they have 2 and 3 head versions http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws/products/dualhead2go/dh2go.cfm I use Ultramon to help me manage applications, it adds property panes to a shortcuts properties that allow me to configure the monitor an application opens on and the size it opens. In addition it allows me to easily move applications between displays and adds taskbars to each display, the task bars are configured to only display the applications on that display.

I have two graphics cards, one AGP and one PCI these are both from ATI and both have a VGA and a DVI connector so in theory I could connect 4 displays.

If you want to do this with a laptop then you could use a device from matrox, I think they have 2 and 3 head versions

http://www.matrox.com/mga/workstation/3dws/products/dualhead2go/dh2go.cfm

]]> By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Anonymous Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:12:59 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2006/04/25/two-screens-are-better-than-one-and-three-are-even-better/#comment-220 Pretty cool setup Steve. I would be interested to know what software do you use to manage 3 screens. Is it a matter of just using Windows and then dragging what you want to each screen or is there some way to manage it so that certain applications always open on a particular screen. Also you obviously need a video card that can handle multiple screens or is there a device that you use like a monitor hub that then plugs into one video card. I would love to do this, even just with 2 screens but my laptop only have 1 video port. Cheers Adam Pretty cool setup Steve. I would be interested to know what software do you use to manage 3 screens. Is it a matter of just using Windows and then dragging what you want to each screen or is there some way to manage it so that certain applications always open on a particular screen. Also you obviously need a video card that can handle multiple screens or is there a device that you use like a monitor hub that then plugs into one video card. I would love to do this, even just with 2 screens but my laptop only have 1 video port.

Cheers

Adam

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