Wayne's List of REALLY cool products that I wouldn't really want to be without...

[Tim Walsh]

I'm usually behind the times, but dual monitors is one of the best ones yet. I can't deal without it. I've tried one large monitor, but I like the way the screen is divided, that way it's easy to have 2 maximized windows, one input, the other output. With one large monitor I find myself fiddling with window sizes too much, with 2 I just drag, double click and move on.


My latest must have item is my new laptop. It's an asus eee pc. It's not a powerful do everything machine, but it's beefy enough to run firefox, openoffice, IM, RDP and ssh, which is about all I need. Wrap that up in a package the size of a hardback book and it now goes everywhere with me. There are now so many wireless spot out there where I can get real work or play done it's almost a no brainer if I should take it or not. only problem.. it can't run dual monitors :-/ but I've got my desktop at home and at work for that.

[Moneyguy1]

Gee, and I thought I was "high tech" when I installed a factory CD/radio in my wife's car.

I have a DVD recorder though, Does this count?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

What in the heck can you do with two monitors that you can't do with one?

Well, I guess you could browse twice as much PPOT in the same time I guess. . .

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Okay, I have to admit being techno-naive on this one. I've seen a few setups for hardcore day trading and stuff where guys have multiple monitors and many, many years ago I worked for a place that had a dual monitor setup for a CAD station, but how does one even go about setting this up? Do you need a special video card or something?

[Tim Walsh]

Most non-bottom of the barrel computers have 2 video outputs these days. Ussually it's one dvi, one vga, or dual dvi's. You can get an adapter for dvi to vga if you've got two vga monitors.

Plug the second monitor in, right click on the desktop->properties->settings->click on monitor #2->click extend my desktop onto this monitor->ok