Comments on: Multimon? Three is perfect. Four is painful.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Nat,

What you might find is that the purpose of the other monitor (3rd or 4th) really should have another user.

From my experience, I find the extra monitors after 2 are best suited to continous or non-related tasks ( server monitoring, Remoting to other machines, Large FTP , etc…) These type of tasks are excellent for that.

You probably also noticed that you need to move the monitors back a little to minimize eye/head movement. Best to think of it in car terms. All your mirrors should be viewable with only the slightest head or eye twitch. Apply some of this and 4 monitor bliss awaits .. Oh and if you want try TopDesk for Expose like functionality.

Hey, are you still "accidentally" destroying Steves AOE villages?

By: Kevin Mullen

Kevin Mullen — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Does anyone have any advice about gaming on 3 monitors. just bought myself a triplehead2go but the quality is heartbreaking compared to the crisp bright DVI signal I am used to. I’m thinking about getting another graphics card to drop in the other PCIe slot but I suspect I will not be able to span the 3 displays into one big screen for gaming if I use 2 cards. Any ideas?

By: Andy Jarrett

Andy Jarrett — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I know 4 is problem, but thats only because you are not using the Zenview Arena Ultra HD with a 30" primary screen and 5 others around it!! Thats what you need!

By: Andy Jarrett

Andy Jarrett — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Forgot the url: http://digitaltigers.com/zenview-arena-ultrahd.shtml

By: Nat Papovich

Nat Papovich — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

That’s just wrong, Andy! But I know that the multi-mon world (beyond dual monitor) is mostly filled with stock traders. They need to keep an eye on lots of things up at once. But $8000? No thanks!

By: Kevin Roche

Kevin Roche — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I once saw a Silicon Graphics video that predicted everyone eventually having a monitor that covered the whole surface of the desk, then curved around and went up the wall behind. I cant wait, meantime I will have to save up for extra monitors. What reall annoys me about the two monitor situation with Matrox Hardware is that all the dialog boxes come up in the position where the two monitors join and that makes tme difficult to read.

By: Tariq CFLEX Ahmed

Tariq CFLEX Ahmed — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

You know I was thinking about this over the weekend, and I thought of what would be perfect with 3 monitors. WhenI did 3, I used the normal aspect ratio 21" monitors (the 1600×1200 kind).

Right now I’m using two 21" widescreens from Dell. They can be rotated 90 deg if you want more vertical space vs horiztonal. 3 of these in that 90 deg ratation woould be perfect, as they’d be fairly narrow enough that side by side don’t require a ton of head movement to pan across, but gives you at the same time that massive desktop space.

By: Tariq CFLEX Ahmed

Tariq CFLEX Ahmed — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

There’s a high res pic of this proof of concept monitor that Microsoft made. It’s as wide as 3 monitors, but it’s one continuous monitor that’s curved for massive desktop real-estate. I saw it in a vision of the future video from MS.

It’s hard to tell, but there’s an image on this page that looksl ike it may be it.

http://research.microsoft.com/displayArticle.aspx?id=433

By: Steve Nelson

Steve Nelson — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Are they mounted left to right? Maybe you should mount two on top, two on bottom?

Of course then you’ll get neck cramps from moving your head in circles.

By: Brian Kotek

Brian Kotek — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I have 3 19" monitors as well and would never go back! It’s hard to enunciate the benefits of having multiple monitors until you’ve tried it. Though I agree three is probably the max. As it is, I feel like I’m at NORAD.