New Setup at Work
So, my employer recently gave me a new laptop, which is great. They talked about getting us “a couple of monitors” to hook up, as well. At the time, I mentioned that I would much prefer one large widescreen to two monitors. A couple weeks went by, no new monitors, I was happily working away in my 20″, 1600×1200 world. Until today. Below, see my new setup. Now I have two 1680×1050 desktops instead. I feel like some poor lab rat in an experiment where they’re trying to induce a split personality or something. The multiple desktop thing always has annoyed me. I never grew fond of virtual desktops in *nix, either. I just don’t work that way. I’ve promised myself to give it a few days to see if I can adjust, but so far, it’s not looking good. As you can see in the photo, I’m still gravitating toward one display.
And yes, before anyone says anything, I know that’s insane.
New Work Setup
[Update: I'm coping.]
Herb:
OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
October 22, 2008, 4:33 pmBret:
Is that a Lenovo?
Does the laptop support dual monitors, or do you have to use a DualHead? I had a laptop hooked up to a DualHead at my last job, and hated the way it worked. Windows has no idea that I had two monitors, so most things would just pop up in the split between both monitors. The only thing Matrox’s software handled was getting windows to maximize on a single monitor — everything else was wacky.
October 22, 2008, 5:36 pmNeo:
Nope, it’s a Dell E6500. It does support dual monitors, but there’s something about the thought process involved in working on multiple monitors that doesn’t really sit well with my workflow. I dunno. It had me feelign really annoyed by the end of the day. I’m hoping it gets better, because aside from being really small, these monitors are pretty nice.
October 22, 2008, 7:59 pmCorey:
I loved having dual monitors (as you well know). Now I have a 20″ widescreen monitor, and sometimes use my laptop as a second monitor if i need to leave something up and watch it run. I haven’t tried virtualbox, is it much better than VMWare & Virtual PC?
November 21, 2008, 4:07 pm