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First Dual Screen Laptop ...I think
Carnivus:
What's the purpose of having 2 screens in the first place?Humans cannot concentrate their attention in more than one place at a time given,so this is so useless...
quekmeister:
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:29:38 PM ---What's the purpose of having 2 screens in the first place?Humans cannot concentrate their attention in more than one place at a time given,so this is so useless...
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It's not about spreading the (already limited) human attention span, but more towards multitasking. You can have two applications running at fullscreen at the same time, or something. I use my dual screen setup to look up cheats while playing games (though I almost as often use pen and paper), and that's about it.
Rangoric:
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:29:38 PM ---What's the purpose of having 2 screens in the first place?Humans cannot concentrate their attention in more than one place at a time given,so this is so useless...
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2 Examples of how 2 screens is useful:
A Programmer has one screen for code or debugger and the other for documentation or the running program.
Office worker with one screen taken up by outlook, the other with all the other work related things (I hear this is a common way to do it, with a smaller 2nd monitor for outlook).
You have to not look at it as using both at once, but having it be easier than alt tabbing to something else to see what is going on. you could have itunes/zune and outlook and a chat program all on that second monitor, leaving your main screen for what you are working on or whatever game/anime you are playing/watching. Email comes in, you can glance to see what it is while the anime still plays.
Carnivus:
--- Quote from: quekmeister on September 01, 2009, 08:40:52 PM ---
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:29:38 PM ---What's the purpose of having 2 screens in the first place?Humans cannot concentrate their attention in more than one place at a time given,so this is so useless...
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It's not about spreading the (already limited) human attention span, but more towards multitasking. You can have two applications running at fullscreen at the same time, or something. I use my dual screen setup to look up cheats while playing games (though I almost as often use pen and paper), and that's about it.
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You can still do it with almost zero effort.Write them before you start the game,or use ALT+TAB.
--- Quote from: Rangoric on September 01, 2009, 08:45:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:29:38 PM ---What's the purpose of having 2 screens in the first place?Humans cannot concentrate their attention in more than one place at a time given,so this is so useless...
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2 Examples of how 2 screens is useful:
A Programmer has one screen for code or debugger and the other for documentation or the running program.
Office worker with one screen taken up by outlook, the other with all the other work related things (I hear this is a common way to do it, with a smaller 2nd monitor for outlook).
You have to not look at it as using both at once, but having it be easier than alt tabbing to something else to see what is going on. you could have itunes/zune and outlook and a chat program all on that second monitor, leaving your main screen for what you are working on or whatever game/anime you are playing/watching. Email comes in, you can glance to see what it is while the anime still plays.
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The examples are good,but only for work.For a home PC,it's useless.I mean,I can't think of a good way too use them.
You are right in a way,but you didn't noticed one thing.If you have a chat program on monitor 1 and anime on monitor 2,the only way to talk and watch is by doing it separatly.If you don't you might end up with a "wreagn meseeg"(wrong message),and miss-out on something interesting happening in the anime.Again,useless.Easier solution:ALT+TAB,or don't watch anime with a chat program turned on.I hate to have that on when watching anything,it's like someone interrupting you.
Natheria:
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:57:13 PM ---You can still do it with almost zero effort.Write them before you start the game,or use ALT+TAB.
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There are many situations when writing them up or searching for them is something that is done as a spur of the moment event. and ALT+TAB can get very annoying when you have a game or something running full screen.
--- Quote from: Carnivus on September 01, 2009, 08:29:38 PM ---The examples are good,but only for work.For a home PC,it's useless.I mean,I can't think of a good way too use them.
You are right in a way,but you didn't noticed one thing.If you have a chat program on monitor 1 and anime on monitor 2,the only way to talk and watch is by doing it separately.If you don't you might end up with a "wreagn meseeg"(wrong message),and miss-out on something interesting happening in the anime.Again,useless.Easier solution:ALT+TAB,or don't watch anime with a chat program turned on.I hate to have that on when watching anything,it's like someone interrupting you.
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Responding to messenger while watching anime may have not have been the best example to use but there are still many situations when having a second screen is incredibly useful. The point of the messenger and anime example is still valid though. Using the second screen for secondary apps and stuff is hella useful and is alot simpler, faster, and more organized than having to ALT+TAB through a half dozen/dozen windows.
It's not about spreading out your attention span but more about separating the things you do that vie for your attention when at a computer into organized sections that have their own screen. What better organization than having another monitor for those tertiary things? Do you actually like alt tabbing all the time through a bunch of shit or minimizing your full screen application to look up or look at and respond to something more trivial? I wish i had the funds to get another screen. I'm just trying to scrape up enough money to build a new machine though so that isn't really in the cards. =/
The reasons for having a second monitor however pretty much shrivels up when you try to put a laptop into the equation. It just goes against some of the basic reasons for a laptop's existence (portability and ease of use anywhere being two that come to mind). Laptops are just trying too much to be what they were never intended for to the point where people now buy netbooks to do the kinds of things we used to buy laptops for.
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