Oct 3

Why You Need a 30" Screen

Cool Tools: 30" Cinema Display: A pretty good explanation of why you need a 30” monitor.

Within a few days of using a large screen I began to experience a much more significant effect, though: when more of the things I needed to look at were already in view, the amount of time spent on visual context switches went down. Having more documents in view not only reduces the time consumed by the switch, but also the “recovery time” needed to remember what I was doing.

I have a 24” Dell monitor, and I don’t think I could go back. I also don’t think I would go back to two smaller screens either. I used to think managing two screens independently would be better because you could maximize one app to each, but having a 24” screen has really eliminated my need to desire to maximize anyway.

by Deane   October 3, 2008 9:15 PM   |

Comments

by yachris,   October 4, 2008 8:59 AM  

Interesting -- I just got a 24" iMac and I love it. BUT I still use Spaces (virtual desktops) although as you say, I don't maximize windows much any more.

I still use two 18" monitors at work, and it's fine... but we're slated to get two 22" monitors each... I'm interested to see if 22" is as good as 24".

Then there's the guy who got a 42" monitor (!!!) from Dell...

by Trapper Markelz,   October 4, 2008 9:50 AM  

What is better than one 24" screen? Two of them!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tjmweb/2844755516/

I had the 24" Dell and loved it... there was a sale on the same exact model, so I picked up another. I agree that a large monitor is good, but there are still many times where duals still make a lot of sense from an efficiency standpoint.

by Seth Gottlieb,   October 6, 2008 5:12 PM  

Do you orient the monitor horizontally or vertically? I have seen people go vertical to work on long dogs or code without scrolling.

by Deane,   October 6, 2008 6:26 PM  

Do you orient the monitor horizontally or vertically?

I've never been able to do it vertically. The narrow-ness of that set-up is really jarring.

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