{"id":776,"date":"2006-11-10T11:20:27","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/4cea01f62e7a837142c3350736ecebfb"},"modified":"2006-11-10T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T19:20:27","slug":"dual-displays-or-one-big-one-which-do-you-prefer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Dual displays or one big one &#8211; which do you prefer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had an interesting internal discussion a few weeks ago about the relative merits of dual monitors over big screens. While there were pros and cons on both sides of the argument, it's really down to a question of personal taste whether you prefer one model to the other. <\/p>\n<p>The critical parameter though is the screen real estate - the actual number of pixels available, rather than how they are configured. It doesn't matter whether those pixels are spread across one screen or two. My two main machines - a 24\" iMac (1920x1200) and a 17\" MacBook Pro (1680x1050, plus an external 20\" with 1600x1200) feel equally productive. On one, I have enough pixels to put many windows side by side. On the other, I spread them across both monitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Qq012B\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Qq012B\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/47627052\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had an interesting internal discussion a few weeks ago about the relative merits of dual monitors over big screens. While there were pros and cons on both sides of the argument, it&#8217;s really down to a question of personal taste whether you prefer one model to the other. <\/p>\n<p>The critical parameter though is the screen real estate &#8211; the actual number of pixels available, rather than how they are configured. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether those pixels are spread across one screen or two. My two main machines &#8211; a 24&#8243; iMac (1920&#215;1200) and a 17&#8243; MacBook Pro (1680&#215;1050, plus an external 20&#8243; with 1600&#215;1200) feel equally productive. On one, I have enough pixels to put many windows side by side. On the other, I spread them across both monitors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=Qq012B\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=Qq012B\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/47627052\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}