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I got hooked on dual monitors back when I was still doing print design on a beige G3 with a scavenged card from a Power Tower.   It's the only way to fly.   At home I now use a 20" postioned above my iBook 12".  The extra desktop real estate is awesome for flash.

In my school's newly built video/audio studio, the three HP's have dual monitors (20-inch Apple), but they only gave the six G5's singles. I'm tempted to rewire a couple of them. Nevertheless, while the Edius software seems to require the two monitors (not very efficiently, BTW), Final Cut Pro makes good use of the one. It would be nice, of course, but I can get by.

Cheers,
ptervin...one-eyed

My pop was so impressed with the 3 monitor set-up I have going (1 21" LCD and 2 17" CRT's) that he allowed me to plug another screen into his eMac.  Easy to do and it's amazing how the increased real-estate breezes the computing along.

If you have a laptop or Emac that supports it, give the dual screen thing a try.  Neat-o.

All you rich smurfs (expect Scott) need to pony up and buy me a 30" apple monitor.

MuckSavage wrote:

All you rich smurfs (expect Scott) need to pony up and buy me a 30" apple monitor.

even with the 30" I still would want a 2nd monitor, the idea of a having a 2nd "space" is the important part

A 17" iMac and 19" LCD keeps me in super slim, dual monitor heaven.

Monitor spanning is one of the most unknown computer features. I wish MacAddict would do a how-to about it, just to put it on the radar. It is so cool, so useful, and so easy for a Mac to do, yet not too many people (that I know at least) even know that they can do it.

how-to?

Step 1) Plug it in.
Step 2) There is no step 2!

I had 2 19" lacies at my old job. Haven't talked my new co into an extra monitor yet, but I'm working on it. I've got a pair of 19" Hitachi's at home which are damn nice. My dad had the exact same monitor I already had so I gave him $20 for it when he was shopping for an LCD. Sweeeeet. But I'm another couch computer so I don't really use the G5 with the dualies very often.

Meh. I used to have a dual monitor setup. It definitely is very, very  nice to have.

However, now that I have thee computers and only one monitor (a very nice 20" Sony flatscreen CRT, albeit Dell-branded) I need to use a KVM.

With a KVM, I can only use one monitor..

However, I've been thinking about having just one workstation, and booting my Server (soon to be the G4) headless, and RDCing into it.

This way, I'll have a little more desk space, as well..

hmmmm

-Tim

yelowpunk wrote:

Meh. I used to have a dual monitor setup. It definitely is very, very  nice to have.

However, now that I have thee computers and only one monitor (a very nice 20" Sony flatscreen CRT, albeit Dell-branded) I need to use a KVM.

With a KVM, I can only use one monitor..

However, I've been thinking about having just one workstation, and booting my Server (soon to be the G4) headless, and RDCing into it.

This way, I'll have a little more desk space, as well..

hmmmm

-Tim

I currently have three computers.
One is headless and on 24/7
I did install a gui so I can run gdm on it and log on remotely through gdm (Linux) - that kind of setup would allow me to use my current desktop on one virtual console and the remote desktop on the other virtual console - but I haven't found a need for that yet.

I don't know if OS X has that capability - but it's really cool, ctrl-alt-7 is local box, ctrl-alt-8 is remote box - it's like a KVM without a KVM.

My third box is a laptop, it has its own display ...

When I get a mac mini, I will run Linux on it and use it via gdm remote login.
Same with the AMD 64-bit box I plan to build (using a shuttle case/board)

remote gui login really is a money saver - only drawback is you can't do any DRI stuff (direct rendering) because the video card driving the display is on a physically different box than the software is running on.

MuckSavage wrote:

I don't believe my video card is capable of dual screens. Nvidia geforce4mx.

I bought my mdd dual 867 G4 BECAUSE it had a Nvidia geforce4mx.  Just so I could run dual monitors.  I have had 2 CRTs connected since I first brought the PowerMac home.

I just got a 20 inch Apple Cinema Display that I connected to the DVI output and am using an Apple adapter to connect the ADC output to a 19 inch CRT.

No install needed.  Just connect and turn on.  Done.
Use the Display preference pane to tweak menu bar position, monitor relative position, and color calibrations.

Do it!!

One adapter came with the mdd G4.  I forget if it was ADC to VGA or DVI to VGA.  Probably ADC to VGA.  Anywho, I just picked the second adapter up at the same time I bought the G4. (Bought at MicroCenter)