its gone very quite all of a sudden....has everyone with dual monitors had to go have a lie-down to rest their necks ? :-D
Jeremy On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM, David Brennan <[email protected]>wrote: > The 2 * 30 inch screens sounded too much to me too although obviously if it > works for someone then go for it! > > With screens I find it is a bell curve, more is most definitely best, but > only up to a point, then the extra space actually becomes distracting. With > my 24" screen at work (screen #2, screen #1 is my laptop screen) I > initially > tried it vertical on the basis that I am writing/scrolling vertical lists > of > code but it was just huge... my eyes couldn't comfortably track up and down > that large an angle. Left to right is less of an issue but even then get > too > many/too wide screens wrapped around and it just gets too hard to use the > extreme left and rights. > > I haven't tried it but imagine 3 screens being the maximum I could use, one > large one (eg 24" widescreen, probably no more) in centre, and two smaller > ones (eg 19" 5x4 ratio) either side. > > My 2c. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On > Behalf Of Alister Christie > Sent: Friday, 17 April 2009 11:24 a.m. > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > I think with 2 30 inch screens you'd get neck strain. I've heard of > people having a 30 inch screen and two smaller screens rotated either > side (so that their width matches the height of the big screen) - which > means that you don't have a gap directly in front of you. > > I have a 26 inch screen at home and this was as large as I could justify > to myself for the price. It has a 21 inch CRT beside it, but I haven't > felt the need to use it for awhile (not doing much coding on that > computer lately) > > Alister Christie > Computers for People > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > PO Box 13085 > Johnsonville > Wellington > > > > Leigh Wanstead wrote: > > If money is not an issue, I think two 30 inch lcd monitors is the way > > to go ;-) > > > > I only got one at home to look at my photos. It is amazing. I used a > > spyder to adjusted the color. I am programming c at home using gcc > > which is great to look at everything on that 30inch lcd monitor. > > > > Have a nice day > > > > Regards > > Leigh > > > > -----Original Message----- > > *From:* [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]]*on Behalf Of *Kyley Harris > > *Sent:* Friday, 17 April 2009 9:55 a.m. > > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > > > id never work on that little thing.. dvd player.. I have a Quad > > Core with 2 22" montiors running 1600x1050 > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Alister Christie > > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > wrote: > > > > except you'd go blind if you had to do any real dev work on > > because of > > the small screen. I now plug an external 24 inch screen into > > my laptop > > for a similar reason (fewer headaches). The laptop does have > > a 17 inch > > screen but at 1920x1200 things are a bit small. I remember > > when I was > > first programming in Delphi on a 14 (maybe it was 15) inch > > monitor - my > > how things have changed. > > > > Alister Christie > > Computers for People > > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > > PO Box 13085 > > Johnsonville > > Wellington > > > > > > > > Kyley Harris wrote: > > > I have one of those $500 Asus EEE computers that runs > > windows XP on > > > 256MB of ram, and a 4GB SSD.. takes 25seconds to boot up.. > > way faster > > > than any other laptop.. still has 120mb free ram and 1gb of > disk > > > space.. I plug a USB hdd into it and its great. battery life > > is awesome > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Stefan Mueller > > > <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > > > > I am also keeping my eyes open for SSD .. those drives > > should be > > > able to > > > improve compile speeds drastically ... they have close to > no > > > seek-times and > > > manage to read thousands of small files at high speed. > > > > > > I probably go with one of the PCIe cards coming out soon > > (like OCZ > > > Z-Drive, > > > or PhotoFast Monster) if the price is ok. PCIe cards > > have the > > > advantage that > > > they get over the 300MBps (theoretical) limit that > > SATA-II has. > > > > > > The OCZ Vertex-II drive also looks promising: > > > > > > > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&task > > > < > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas > k> > > > =view > > > > > > < > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas > k%0A=view<http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas%0Ak%0A=view> > > > < > http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas > k%0A=view<http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?Itemid=67&id=11365&option=com_content&tas%0Ak%0A=view> > >> > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > Stefan > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > [mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>] On > > > Behalf Of Ross Levis > > > Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:56 > > > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' > > > Subject: Re: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] memory issues > > > > > > I'm looking forward to larger cheaper solid state drives > > which > > > last up to > > > 100 years, replacing hard drives which fail every few > > years. 10+ > > > times > > > faster than a hard drive. I've heard a PC with one of > these > > > drives can boot > > > Windows XP in 4 seconds. > > > > > > Prices will get below US$2 per GB this year. It's still > > out of my > > > price > > > range, but I'm considering upgrading my laptop's hard > > drive to a 240GB > > > SanDisk drive later this year. > > > http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=8040 > > > > > > Ross. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > [mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>] On > > > Behalf Of Richard Bullin > > > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:15 p.m. > > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > > > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > > > > > I'm not really sure if 300mb classifies Delphi as a > > memory hog if you > > > look at getting one of the below computers with 192GB of > > ram, I > > > foresee > > > a surge in lazy programmers :) > > > > > > > > > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&; > > > <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&;> > > > articleId=9130538 > > > > > > < > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A > articleId=9130538<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A%0AarticleId=9130538> > > > < > http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&%0A > articleId=9130538>> > > > > > > > > > Richard > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > [mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > > <mailto:[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>>] > > > On Behalf Of Alister Christie > > > Sent: Thursday, 16 April 2009 12:01 p.m. > > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List > > > Subject: Re: [DUG] BDS.exe memory issues > > > > > > Currently I'm on 254MB. > > > > > > Close Delphi - 0MB > > > Open Delphi - 11MB > > > Open Project - 71MB > > > Compile - 154MB (peaking at around 170MB) > > > Open a Project with modeling support - 215MB > > > > > > And the numbers just keep going up from there the more > > you do. > > > > > > I think it's fair to say that it is a bit of a memory > > hog. Although I > > > have 6 chrome processes running currently eating up a > > total of 155MB. > > > > > > I guess we could turn this into a discussion of who is > > running the > > > most > > > memory hungry App and/or instance of Delphi currently? > > > (Currently Jeremy leads at 307MB) > > > > > > Alister Christie > > > Computers for People > > > Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 > > > http://www.salespartner.co.nz > > > PO Box 13085 > > > Johnsonville > > > Wellington > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy Coulter wrote: > > > > Does anyone else get issues with BDS.exe (delphi 2007) > > using a > > > HEAP of > > > > > > > memory? > > > > at the moment its sitting on 307mb of mem usage ! > > > > > > > > Admittedly my current machine only has 2GB (new > > machine has been > > > > ordered....YAY) but seriously, thats HEAPS. > > > > In saying that, I notic that FireFox is sitting on > > 131mb too. > > > > > > > > just wondered if this is a common issue, and if there is > a > > > solution to > > > > > > > it or not. > > > > > > > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > NZ Borland Developers Group - 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