Will A Big Ass Monitor Help With Productivity?
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Personally, I'd invest in a large, comfortable leather chair over a large monitor. Would probably increase productivity more. Actually, I know it does. 
? whats your monitors resolution?
I would highly recommend having 3 and the 2 on the side in portrait mode, while keeping the middle widescreen. With almost every email client, program, and website in portrait mode - you'd wonder why everyone keeps their shit widescreen.
Since you mentioned eyestrain, I've found that simply decreasing my laptop screen brightness has been wonderful for my eyes.
A family member of mine has actually bought a very large television screen. His eyesight is really poor, so the large screen enables him to watch tv without squinting too much. For everyone else in our house, the screen is just too big and makes our eyes uncomfortable after a while.
A family member of mine has actually bought a very large television screen. His eyesight is really poor, so the large screen enables him to watch tv without squinting too much. For everyone else in our house, the screen is just too big and makes our eyes uncomfortable after a while.
I have 5 monitors and 2 tv's......productivity has gone down significantly. three is good enough....or two monitors and a tv. I lose my mouse all the time, but it is fun to have crap open on every screen.
Use double monitor set up and if you are into IM, Twitter and facebook also than add one more for them. So total = 3 Monitors
This will certainly help to increase your productivity and will organise you much better.
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This will certainly help to increase your productivity and will organise you much better.
For managing screen in a better way ... download this free software -
WinSplit Revolution
I've used two 17" LCDs and I've also used a single 30" widescreen LCD, and I preferred the two 17" ones. Hope that helps.
Skip the huge one, go with 2 medium size monitors. I'm running 2 27" Mac screens, it's perfect. Anytime I set up a huge screen it has had some lag and the mouse never flows like it does on a normal sized screen.
I've had only one wireless mouse and had to toss it after a week - it was a high precision and overpriced bullcrap that was 100 times worse than the cheapest wired mouse.
As for monitors - I spend a lot of time writing as well and I have my computer hooked to a monitor and my TV. When I have to write product reviews or do re-writes, I use the TV as a second monitor and it helps big time. Say I have to write a digital camera review and instead of switching between browser windows and Word, I simply pull the browser window with the camera specs to the TV and then write in Word, which is shown on my monitor. It makes a hell of a difference!
As for monitors - I spend a lot of time writing as well and I have my computer hooked to a monitor and my TV. When I have to write product reviews or do re-writes, I use the TV as a second monitor and it helps big time. Say I have to write a digital camera review and instead of switching between browser windows and Word, I simply pull the browser window with the camera specs to the TV and then write in Word, which is shown on my monitor. It makes a hell of a difference!
I think 2-3 is ideal depending on what kind of work you do. Personally I couldn't get by with less than 3. The trick is to keep them on the small side so you aren't straining your eyes or having to physically move your head around constantly to see all of them. 3 19" at a decent resolution is perfect for me.