I have a laptop so I do plug into my TV from ever now and then to watch movies and play games but I mean if you have 2 monitors for extend desktop or whatever you use it for whats the point of that? I myself cant think of many uses for such a feature but then I not really thought about it.
I currently have a three monitor setup at home and two at my shop. I can barely function now with one monitor.
Multitasking.
One monitor is really restrictive.
How do you think administrators on forums access data so quickly.
One monitor........no way!
Makes it easier than trying to move windows around one screen. I have my newsreader on the left screen, gadgets and email on the right screen and do my work on the middle screen.
Editing video allows you to have more of your tools shown at one time, makes for an efficient working environment.
I've used 2 monitors at work for many years. The primary reason is to have more applications open at the same time. For example, I want my instant messenger and my email open at all times at work. In addition, I have a monitoring system that I would like to keep open to make sure everything is running correctly. I'm often doing research with my web browser and perhaps working on documentation in a spreadsheet or document. Trying to manage all of this on one monitor is a PITA and always leads to me being behind or missing something.
I personally prefer one monitor especially now that Windows 7 can snap windows easily. I'm happy with my 24" NEC 2490wuxi2. I don't like to turn my head all day. If I tire of this size I guess 30" would be nice.
On a more serious note, here are a few of the ways I've made use of my three monitors lately:
1) Writing a term paper. I had the document I was writing in the middle, firefox with about 20 tabs open on the left, and my bibliography, endnotes, and appendices open on the right. This pretty much simulates the way I used to do it in the pre-home computer days when I would have books scattered across my desk, a typewriter in front of me, and other documents off to the side.
2) Email on the left, browser in the middle, ballgame on the right. I can see everything at once without all that woo-woo clickety-clack business, which is quite distracting for old people like me.
3) Task Manager off to the side with the performance tab showing. Programs on the right and center monitors while I see what the memory and cpu usage are for various things I am benchmarking.
Basically, you wouldn't work on a real desktop that was only 20" wide, at least not if you need to get anything serious done. Why limit yourself to that situation with your virtual desktop?
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