Dual screens?

Question

What's your experience with dual LCD screens? Does it drop the resolution? Will the toolbars span across the two screens? I noticed there will be a split between the two screens. Is it better to get one large screen instead? I use it for excel and word documents.

Answer 1

Hi. Your GPU should support dual monitors with resolution settings set individually. Apps can be dragged for 1 to 2 and back, but the toolbars are set for each monitor. At least on my Radeon 9800 Pro.

Answer 2

It may drop the frame rate as the GPU is having to do more work. For office apps this is not a problem.

Toolbars do not span. You can drag them onto the screen you want. By default they are on the primary screen.

You do not really want to span documents across screens. All the information is there, but because there is a gap it is a bit confusing. Words run smoothly across one screen, and then jump across the gap which is not what your brain expects. It's like reading a book where a line of text runs across both pages rather than across and down one then the next.

I find multiple screens very useful if I want to reference one document while I edit another, so I can have the reference document on one screen and the document I am working on on the other.

Answer 3

One large screen is better, however, it is way, way more expensive. You need a special video card for dual screens. Many peole use 2-6 screens in offices. The toolbar on the bottom spans both screens, but is not a problem. There is no "dead spot" between the screens so you see the whole picture.
It works well for Excel and Word.

Answer 4

I been using dual screens for years, normally on nVidia using dual-view, and span settings.

What will happen is your Windows and the taskbar/trays etc will appear on the first screen (in my case the left TFT), then the right monitor balnk, you can drag anything from first screen to second screen and run them in a window or full screen, I normally would use my right screen for live TV or webpage when cross refencing.

As to size, I always perfer both screens same size, 19" is what I find best, not too large (try dual 22" and your head needs to move so much more).

Answer 5

Mainly Dual Screens are cool if you usually have alot of windows open at the same time. Other funtionality can be discovered as you continue to work with them. The Secretary at my place of work uses one monitor to watch the video cameras and one monitor to do daily tasks on, the analyst use one monitor to watch the stock tickers and one monitor to do daily tasks. No from what i know you pick which side that your tool bar will be on, unlock and drag it. There are also other tweaks that you can accomplish using the desktop properties > appearance tab to make your two monitors function correctly. One large one could be cool, 2 is real nice though.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

depends if u just do the windows desktop extended thing on control panel or actually get software for it