4 Jun
2013
4 Jun
'13
7:35 p.m.
On 5 June 2013 00:56, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
On 04/06/13 11:08 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
Me too.
(Well, except my twin 21" CRTs are no more, as the right one died. So
I've downgraded to twin 19" LCDs. Not happy about the change, but the
extra physical desk space is good. I might have room for 3 ? 19" LCDs
now.)
But, you know, most computers support external screens. Even iPads!
Support for multiple monitors is commonplace now.
On a laptop with a single display port, one can use something like this:
http://www.samsung.com/my/consumer/pc-peripherals-printer/monitor/lcd-monit…
At $JOB-1, I had a nettop as a thin client, with an LCD on its monitor
port and (somewhat bizarrely, as it had an HDMI port as well) a USB
display adaptor & a second, identical LCD on that.
There was little to no noticeable display-performance difference
between the two screens.
If the nettop had been a tablet-format device, it could have laid on
my desk as a handy mousemat-sized trackpad - all it needs is a bit of
flexibility in the design of the OS. In other words, the easiest sort
of thing to change, really.
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To talk about doing full-scale big-screen layout work on something the
size of an iPad is just egregiously stupid. If you're doing it in the
hopes of point-scoring in an argument, you just lost.
Even just for typing, I prefer a 24" and preferably two.