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January 15, 2021

How and Why I Use 4 Monitors

I got my start with "multimon" back in the days of Windows 2000, perhaps a touch earlier. For certain I had two 19inch CRT monitors hooked up to my machine. I was so overwhelmed with how empowering this was. I could follow instructions on one monitor, then do them on the other. I could view web pages and watch a video. It was pretty amazing for it's time since it took two separate video cards to make the magic happen. Years later, I upgraded to a 3 monitor setup. By this time video cards were powerful enough to handle multiple displays from a single card. Now, with technology being what it is, I have 4 monitors connected to my Mac Pro using an RX 580 video card. Why? Primarily because I can. Four video outputs means four monitors. Using less would be wasteful. 🙂 Seriously, the 4 monitor setup is incredibly powerful and productive. Everything I need during the day […]

August 4, 2013

Four Feet of Flat Panel Goodness

If you recall a few months ago I wrote about a new machine I put together, an 8-core colossus with 32GB of ram and several terabytes of hard drive space. It’s a beauty of a machine, but there was one slight problem. The monitors weren’t on par with my new creation. Problem was, there was nothing wrong with the monitors, so I couldn’t in good conscience just throw them away. They weren’t great, but they would last until the end of the year. Well, that’s what I thought anyway. Alas, the years caught up with them and they began showing signs of fatigue. One monitor began to turn off at random intervals and then the other began to lose pixels. Not just a random, but one vertical line after the other. While Red and Green are festive for the Holiday season, they are quite distracting when it comes to monitors. The decline was rapid and they had to be replaced. […]

How and Why I Use 4 Monitors

Four Feet of Flat Panel Goodness

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