Dual Screen Goodness

October 10, 2006
10:06 pm
Posted in: General

For a few weeks, while my family was out of town, I “borrowed” a 17″ LCD monitor from them. I felt much more productive. There have been studies that have quantified gains in productivity for users with larger or multiple monitors.

After the LCD I was borrowing was reclaimed, I could feel my productivity dropping. I was spending more time using Exposé to find windows, and I was spending more time scrolling.

Behold the solution:

Dell 2407 WFP 24 inch monitor
Dell 2407WFP 24 inch widescreen LCD

This baby is amazing. Retina-burningly bright. Flawless image (no dead/stuck pixels… yay!) It has a plethora of inputs: DVI, VGA, Component, Composite, S-Video, USB. It has 4 USB ports (acting as a USB hub). It has CF/SM/SD/MS/MMC slots on the side. It can do picture in picture. Better-than-HDTV resolution (1920×1200). I can display 627 image thumbnails at a time in iPhoto. The display rotates 90 degrees, which is great for viewing an entire website, or for viewing PHP code.

I only wish my PowerBook could power another one of these bad boys.

Mark Jaquith

Hi. I’m Mark Jaquith (JAKE-with). I make WordPress, a free and open source publishing platform and I work as a freelance WordPress consultant. This is my personal blog. You can subscribe to my feed or follow me on Twitter and Google+.

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