On 2007-01-22, Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I use two monitors. Alternatives would be a bigger screen, and > that would work fine, I expect. Obviously printing things out, though > it's handy to have searchable things, and I routinely refer to quite a > lot of material. Or switching between workspaces, of course. It's > just that much more convenient just to have another monitor.
Actually, it's not so much about the size of the screen. I don't find 19" 4:3 offers anything over 17" 4:3 at the same resolution, or even a slightly bigger resolution (e.g. 1600x1200 vs. 1280x1024... which would be more of an enhancement on a 17" screen than between 19" and 17", but not much of enhancement in either case, as both resolutions are still so poor). It's more about the shape. There's horizontally a bit of space left in the field of vision after a 4:3 screen, that a widescreen display should fill. You can comfortably fit two A4 papers on a widescreen display, wasting less resources than multihead, that normally will have a lot of screen space outside your field of vision. -- Tuomo
