Jello wrote:

dmv wrote:
Jello wrote:

she noticed that many people had attached two or three monitors to their computers. They placed their applications on different screens - the e-mail far off on the right side, a Web browser on the left and their main work project right in the middle - so that each application was "glanceable." When the ding on their e-mail program went off, they could quickly peek over at their in-boxes to see what had arrived.

I am an ion window manager user (no overlapping windows). Last week, I picked up another LCD for my home machine. I totally agree with this usage pattern and sentiment. Overlapping windows don't make as much sense as people think they do.

I couldn't agree more.

Chalk up another agreement, but with the following caveat... it's totally impractical for most people to have that much real estate. I think someday, when we all have 90 inch super-hd projectors that're both tv's and computers (since there won't be a difference), this will work. For the moment though, I live in an apartment that's 760 sq feet... how much room is there for a big pile of monitors? Not much. Not to mention, I use a laptop for 90% of my work, so that's inherently limited until they get those fold out displays *really* thin and cheap.

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