I used to use multiple screens until I honestly realized that I wasn’t more productive with them.
So, now I only have one… although… does “Spaces” for Mac count…?
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I have two and it does help because so much of my work is either moving data from one place to another or looking at very large sets of number that I stretch across two screens. For those two cases I am more productive. At all other time I am probably less productive when I have multiple screens working. (And I usually have 3).
wow. 3… that’s so biblical.
I used to use two… now I just use one larger one. Keeps things a little more streamlined, I think, at least for me.
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Funny you should bring this up. I’ve been quite unproductive lately running two monitors because I keep my email open on one screen and it’s becoming distractive. I’ve been seriously considering using just spaces
and getting a bigger monitor like Eric mentioned.
bigger is … better…?
Am using two 21inch at home, and it’s been very productive for me as compare to one. Am thinking of getting a third monitor which is a bigger ones ..
i want a 30″ mac.
Well I use 2 monitors when I’m trying to be *really productive* and one monitor for normal use. But the 13.3 macbook sometimes needs a bit more space.
Only thing is, I am using a standard-aspect 19″ screen, which is a little weird with the widescreen of the mac next door.
13.3 can be small but my wife enjoys it.
I used to use two as well and have gotten away from it. The use of “workspaces” in Gnome/Linux (I use Ubuntu) really makes the productivity gains of extra monitor real estate much less. I used to really like it for video editing, but both Kdenlive and Blender have good preview panes in a single window environment (I would assume proprietary software generally has this as well) so I like having everything tight and close which brings it’s own efficiency gains.
Kevin
http://opensourcechurch.com
ah haven’t used workspaces in a while… been a long time since I was in a collocation facility on linux…
Each to their own – I personally can’t live without two and in work I could do with three but make do with two.
If you’re trying to compare stuff side by side or follow a tutorial then it is so much easier to have them split across multiple screens. The only way I’d possibly go with one is having a 24″ widescreen