My in-use, non-TV displays add up to (diag.):
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Odd Binning (Score:5, Insightful)
15" or less: Small to mid laptops
15-30": Mid-to-large laptops, CRT displays, most LCDs
30-60": Most two-monitor setups of any main/old monitor size, and high end LCDs
60-90": Presumably 2-4 monitors, depending on quality, and some solo tv-as-monitor setups
More than 90": Presumably above 3-5 monitors, depending on quality; 3+ large LCDs, or 5+ 18" CRTs, along with more exotic displays, such as projectors
Given the vague wording of the question, it also lacks any kind of distinguishment between multiple single-headed computers, and lone multi-monitor setups, which seem like very different usage cases to me. My two ancient 18" CRTs, one standalone and the other the head of a KVM switch, leaves me rubbing shoulders with the $1000+ single-LCD users.
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Yeah, if I added up the monitors on all my computers, it would be crazy high.
On just my primary machine, it's in the 30"-60" range. Though I have two monitors, I tend to keep the second one turned off except when I need it.
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Are they all in-use at the same time though? I could add up a bunch like that too. But sitting right here typing I have a 20" 4x3 panel and a 19" 4x3 panel. So 39". Poorly phrased as usual for surveys - but I took it to mean "what are you using right now?"
Indeed, very poorly worded. I assumed "in-use" to mean hooked up to an active computer and not sitting in a closet. Also, what about KVM switches. Does "non-TV" include or exclude a TV that is hooked up to a HTPC?
Right now I have two 24" monitors on my desk, one of which is hooked up to a 4 port KVM and my laptop with a 19" display. Which is generally how I work. If I add in the wife's laptop and daughter's computer and the HTPC, then it's well over 90"
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I assumed in use to mean I used it regularly. Though I only included my own devices, I could have added in a few more more in the server room. I just counted my work monitor, netbook screen and phone screen. I did get my HDTV with the intention of it doubling up as a monitor too though.
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Well, it said in-use, not in-use currently. So, that would be about ~14" for my work ThinkPad that I'm on right now, ~10" for my iPad, 15" MacBook Pro, 17" MacBook Pro, 13" MacBook Air, a 30" Mac Cinema Display, and a 19" Dell Monitor -- all of which add up to 118".
As far as combined diagonal of 20" and 19" goes, that would depend on the area of the monitors to accurately calculate the diagonal of the "resulting" rectangle.
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Yeah I'm not sure what counts as a "non-tv display". I use a 55" LCD TV as my primary monitor at home. Does that count as a "TV"? It has no cable or OTA reception.
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Yeah I'm not sure what counts as a "non-tv display". I use a 55" LCD TV as my primary monitor at home. Does that count as a "TV"? It has no cable or OTA reception.
I'd say yes, that's how I counted it. Alternatively, if you had a monitor hooked up to a tuner or other TV-esque device, I'd call that a "TV". I suppose if that TV-esque device were a myth box, etc., one could argue either way. And who am I to come someone's home or place of business with a squad of goons to beat them until they say it my way . . .
The poll is vague. But if it weren't, we wouldn't have as much to discuss.
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I get satellite and slingbox to everything, so technically every display including my cell phone is a TV display :P
There is one display that I only use as a secondary monitor and have never used for TV, so I did vote. Incidentally, I also use my 42" plasma TV as a secondary monitor, but I also use it as a TV.
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I'm in the 30-60" range: two 15" monitors (one at home; one in my office) and a mobile phone.
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Simply adding diameters together is pretty meaningless. I mean, I've got a 20" monitor at home, a 10" EeePC, an old laptop with I think a 17" screen, and who knows, I might have some old CRTs somewhere. Add a 3.7" smartphone, two old feature phones (1.5"?), and then I'm wondering if the screen on my old iPod counts.
In diameter it's a lot more than the 27" iMac at work, but in surface area, I'm not so sure.
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Or did you mean diagonal?
I did of course. Thanks for pointing out how I'm making a fool of myself.
Re:Odd Binning (Score:5, Interesting)
My two ancient 18" CRTs, one standalone and the other the head of a KVM switch, leaves me rubbing shoulders with the $1000+ single-LCD users.
Yup!
I previously had a 3x nice quality 17" CRTs. No LCD display I've seen yet has compared with the quality, not to mention viewing angle, and the CRTs were reasonably priced (sub $200) at the time.
Now I've got 6 LCD monitors (4x 19" square-ish and 2x 24" widescreen in a 3 by 2 config). 2 of them, light is starting to bleed around the corners, and one of them has a small patch of dead pixels in the corner. I really miss the "always just works and looks great" of my CRTs.
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Only had one LCD crap out on me.. and sadly it was the best quality one I ever owned.. Samsung and it quit working 3 days after the warranty period expired.
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Oh, not saying CRTs don't break down. I had an ol` "radiation master 3000" style sun monitor go completely haywire.
The difference is that when a CRT goes.. it's usually old(ish) and needs to be replaced. LCDs on the other hand seem to degrade over time almost as a matter of course, or atleast that has been my experience with them.
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Take a look at professional IPS panels. When I saw one at a hardware store last week, I was dead sure it's a mock-up with a printed sticker glued on. Then it crossfaded into another picture. I think it was an Eizo, but I'm not sure about the model number. It looked way, way better than the best CRT I've ever had, and that was a professional CTX with composite input, made for DTP work. It was appropriately expensive, of course.
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I should have said "bought yet" vice "seen yet". I have seen very nice looking LCDs, including LED/IPS, but have yet to own one (I tend to cheap out on monitors.. so probably have myself to blame for my bad LCD luck).
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Are there any good NEW good quality CRTs made any more these days? If not, then what about LCD or other types that match CRT's quality?
I had to get a cheap 19" 5:4 Samsung SyncMaster 931BF LCD monitor a few years ago immediately because my CRT went blurry with shimmering effects on me. Also, All of my computer monitor CRTs, at home and work, do not last very long (a few years). CRT TVs do last forever like my current 20" from 1996! I must be having bad lucks with computer CRT monitors.
Ambiguous (was: Odd Binning) (Score:2)
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30-inch / 24-inch / 24-inch
10 desktops / 10 desktops / 8 desktops
respectively...
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I guess everybody reached 90"+ .. i guess displays include VCR, Microwave oven, phone, burglar alarm, digital clocks, Gameboy, watch, compactcamera, and such. (i would hit 90" still when counting PC monitors exclusively)
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Err my watch has hands I don't think that counts.
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Yup.. I got over 12" in camera/camcorder displays, another 3" at least for the microwave and conventional ovens, another 12" in my car... not to mention four displays on two computers, 24" x 2 + 23" x 2.
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My in-use, non-TV displays
So your plasma TV does not count.
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. Does the fact that it has a tuner attached to it somehow make it not a monitor?
Sounds fishy. :)
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> it adds up to be about an extra 10-15 inches
But, sadly, not where it counts.
*ducks*
Projectors? (Score:3, Interesting)
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ooh, good point. DCI projectionists at a multiplex could possibly have up to 10 30 metre screens in use at any one time... totaling 12836 inches diagonally, assuming all movies are showing in 2.35:1 aspect ratio (scope these days is 2.4:1 now that we're all shooting super-35, but i thought i'd be conservative)
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"I included my HD projector which puts me well over 90"."
Which makes me & my 22" feel much less insecure.
Just remember: it's not what you have, it's what you do with it.
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Similar here, 106" Projection and a 17" monitor for my main PC in my living room, and I have another PC in the same room with a 19" CRT connected to my music sound system and that I also use for my VOIP phone and general network storage accessed via VPN.
That's all besides the 8-12 functional 16" - 17" CRTs in my basement and 5 - 6 functional towers all over my house.
2 Towers and 3 displays should be enough for anyone....
Seems kind of low (Score:2)
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It didn't say "displays that you own" it just said "in-use displays". It was poorly worded, vague and a silly question, but it clearly did not mean you had to own them personally.
my main display (Score:4, Funny)
CRTs except my laptop (Score:2)
My CRT: 22in Viewsonic (KVMed to my desktop and the server)
My wife's CRT: 20in Dell branded Trinitron
The lab CRT: 21in Viewsonic (KVMed to my VMware ESXi box, an old Windows box used for VSphere and an old Linux box)
the laptop: 15.6in flat panel
Wife's laptop: 17in
I hate to "upgrade" to more flat panels and lose resolution. It would be nice if you could get a flat panel with better than 1080 vertical resolution without paying way too many $$$.
Cheers,
Dave
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More importantly, a widescreen (22' 1920x1200) LCD that can scale up a 640x480 StarCraft BroodWar game.
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With all the electricity and physical real estate being consumed by those CRTs, you're paying the cost of LCD upgrades even though you're not getting them.
Want pixels on the cheap? Use side-by-side 1920 LED displays. Want tons of pixels in one display? Then pony up the $800+ for a 27+" IPS display.
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With all the electricity and physical real estate being consumed by those CRTs, you're paying the cost of LCD upgrades even though you're not getting them.
Wasting physical real estate? Sure, CRTs are going to have a larger bezel, but who really cares how deep they are. You're going to have your display at the same distance from you regardless, and its not like you're going to store things behind your LCDs.
As for power, a nice 20" UXGA CRT is going to pull around 100-120W. A comparable 20" UXGA IPS LCD is going to be closer to 30-40W. Lets say you use this display for work, so 8hrs per day, 240 days per year. That amounts to maybe $20 at standard North Am
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UXGA is 1600x1200 which is (alas) hard to get in LCD. A 23" 1920x1080 IPS LED-LCD from Newegg is now $230, so payoff is about 11 years. There are added advantages of a truly flat screen without very thick glass and ridiculous weight. Furthermore, LCDs are perfectly sharp everywhere, whereas CRTs even when perfectly adjusted are only approximately sharp.
If you use your computer heavily at work and actually need to see fine detail over a large area, an excellent monitor is a luxury more significant than a muc
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I picked up a Samsung SyncMaster 213T shortly after they came out. It's a PVA panel so it's usefulness for gaming is questionable, but the color has always been really nice and at 1600x1200 it's still my primary work monitor. (And, if I wanted more vertical resolution, this thing will turn on it's side for 1200x1600 action.)
The backlight's giving out though. Even at brightness set to max it's starting to dim. Too bad too since I've always liked this monitor.
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no. it sucks if you wanna play games on your desktop.
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*whoosh*
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Yeah. He didn't mention he was posting from jail.
My humble list (Score:3)
2x24" monitors
2x22" monitors (these 2 and the previous 2 are in a 2x2 grid, so I kind of just look at them as a single 45ish inch monitor)
22" computer w/ built in monitor
13" laptop
10" tablet
9" tablet
4" phone
3.2" phone
2x3.7" phone (I use all of them for development)
2x3.5" pda-like devices
Also, I'm broke and live alone.
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1 x 14.1" laptop (current lappy)
1 x 15.6" laptop (former lappy)
1 x 40" TV (technically, it's attached to my media centre PC)
1 x 3.2" phone.
2 x 3.7" phones.
I'm not broke but I live in a sharehouse.
I also find it's ironic that there are only 280 vertical lines difference between my 3.7" phone and 40" TV.
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Top left monitor is putty to a tmux session with htop and xen top running on my servers and virtual servers. Top right for music, IRC, and a secondary web browser for my developer email and stuff. Bottom right for the majority of my web browsing. Bottom left for coding, gadgets (post-its, cpu, calendar, weather), and movies.
I like things visible so I can just glance at them instead of switching between virtual desktops or whatever it is people do.
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I'm at 1x4... or probably 4x1... anyway, they're all side be side. :)
22" Outlook, sqlyog when i'm working, winamp in an always on top bar at the top.
22" Chrome, chrome and chrome. After I'm happy with it in chrome I may fire up some of the lesser browsers (ff, ie, safari, opera) just to make sure the page loads... don't care what it looks like
26" Dreamweaver, always in code view. I don't use it for wysywig, just to manage the files.
20"Dreamweaver toolbars, pallets, whatever you want to call it. And googl
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and I wish I could find a way to make htop display for about 20 servers at once... without using screen and 20 remote connections.
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Ha, you think i paid for all that???
Back in 2000 I went to the boss with a report Subject:"Having two monitors improves performance by 20%!" (diminishing returns for each additional monitor.
Seeing that my salary back then was 50k... it reasoned that for a $200 monitor could get him a work increase of $10k!
In 2008, when I got a new computer that had two 16x displays, I brought the report back...
Second video card + 2 more monitors ~= $600... I was at $75k by then... calculate diminishing returns, safely say 8
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Holy cow, you guys just have too much cash to throw around :)
Welcome to slashdot, where people connect their $1000 graphics cards to their $100 lcd while sitting on an upturned 5 gallon bucket for a chair, and then complain about how painful the ergonomics are, and they could never "read something on a computer screen" etc.
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You have a 3x24" work desktop and you use the single 24" as your primary? unitask much? :)
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I suppose that depends on how you read the question. I read it as "you use it on a regular basis.. ie, it isn't collecting dust in a closet."
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Yep, that's what I mean by broke (currently have no money, but enough is coming in that I can live. I just buy toys every time I get a surplus of cash). Also, I use all of this stuff to make money.
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Yes... that was kind of why I said it.
I use an ASR33, you insensitive clod. (Score:3)
I do my editing with Scotch tape and a hole punch.
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I do my editing with Scotch tape and a hole punch.
I do my editing with Scotch tape and a hole punch.
Then you're doing it wrong. A hole punch will ruin your screen. Use liquid paper / whiteout on your display instead.
96" (Score:2)
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Inncorrect. (Score:2)
You have a total area of about 980 sq inches.
23.6 high, 41.5 wide
23.6 squared = 556.96
41.5 squared = 1722
A sqr + B sqr = 2279.21
the sqr of 2279 is 47.7
Cars guys over compensate with fast cars, computer guys overcompensate with large monitors.
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http://mitnal.com/96.jpg [mitnal.com]
24 * 4 = 96.
QED
Cars guys over compensate with fast cars, computer guys overcompensate with large monitors.
It's what I stare at 18 hours a day. Why would I want to torture myself? If I'm a travelling salesman, you think I'm going to drive around in a Yugo?
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)
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Why do you have all eight arranged in a single diagonal line?
Does it matter? If you can add two physical 15" monitors together as if they were a 30", even though you only have half the display area of the latter, why shouldn't you be able to do the same with virtual displays?
But wait! It gets worse! Does it matter if the virtual (or physical, for that matter) displays are separate or not? I have nine virtual displays on my desktop right now, but they're all connected into one giant 3x3 desktop that I can pan around on arbitrarily. Does that mean that I have to c
Digital signage at work (Score:3)
Does a 500" display count as a non-TV? We build jumbotrons..
Total is not simple addition of diagonals (Score:2)
The total 'size' or more accurately area of multiple screens is not just the simple total of the linear diagonal dimensions.
eg. If two 15" screens are totalled in area, the result is closer to the area of a 24" monitor than it is to the size of a 30" monitor.
The Queen's Imperial Units of Measure (Score:2)
Adding area by diagonals? (Score:5, Insightful)
The other tricky thing that comes into play is aspect ratio. Two screens with the same diagonal measurement, but different aspect ratios, will have different areas. So if I add an old 20" 4:3 CRT to a new 24" 16:9 LCD I get
Re:Adding area by diagonals? (Score:4, Insightful)
I think the rest of us saw this as just a reason to compare penis's. Not trying to figure out mathmatically how much screen area we have. In general a larger diag means more space. But yes, technically someone with 20 1"x2" screens (40") has less than someone with a single 20"x24 (480")
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I think you are being a bit pedantic. It's not tricky. The survey explicitly said total diagonal measurement, period. Nothing about display area, aspect ratios, etc. This is NOT a scientific survey as with most other /. surveys... ;)
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My in-use, non-TV displays add up to (diag.):
Yes, it can be interpetted either way. your total area and 16x9. the A2+B2 = C2
I'm at 108 (Score:2)
Just looking at my computer, I'm at 108 (22W,22W,26W,20)
If in use means, currently, then that's my number. If it means daily... Add the 52W"LCD in the living room, the 22W"LCD in the bedroom and the 17W"LCD on the laptop.
Oh and the, eh, maybe 4"LCD on the iphone?
That would bring us to 203" I'd give it to you in pixels, but I've done enough math for now.
A better question - how many megapixels? (Score:2)
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Either we're happy to look at our photos on a 2Mpix or less screen, in which case it's pointless having many more than that in camera
Or we're happy to look at our photo on a 2MP or less screen, but when we print said photo to paper, we don't like to look at pixels.
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That makes no sense either - why exactly would you need a high resolution on paper and a low resolution on screen?
Because a computer screen has a lower DPI than is commonly used on paper. On a large screen, a 2 MP photo looks fine. But when you print that to a large piece of paper (something like A3 is not uncommon), 2 MP isn't a high enough resolution by far to be acceptable.
60-90 (Score:2)
I wasn't sure whether to I should include my work PC since I don't own it, but it's an in-use, non-TV display so I did.
24" [gaming PC] + 15" [laptop] + 3.5" [PDA] + (17"*2) [work PC] = 76.5"
Multi-Monitor/Multi-System (Score:2)
At work I have four systems using Synergy to manage 5 monitors. MacBook Pro, two Ubuntu desktops, and a Windows XP laptop.
At home I have my Ubunut gateway with a 17" monitor, my work laptop (when working from home) with an attached 17" monitor, my personal Powerbook G4 essentially playing music and hosting game wikis, and my Windows 7 with four 23" monitors in a |=| setup.
[John]
Depends on the definition of "is" .... (Score:2)
That depends upon the definition of "is" ... er .... I mean what is a "display"...
Do I count the car radio display? on my calculator? on my volt meter? The display on my microwave? on my watch? on my scale? on my thermostat? on my clock radio? on my Audio Recorder? on my digital piano? On my stereo? I am sure I am missing a few, but even without resorting to my smart phones, dumb phones, pads, laptops, computers, and servers, I am over 100" ... Add them all up and I am pushing 300"
How do you add them (Score:2)
Do you want the number of each monitor device just summed up? or do you want the diagonal of there summed up areas laid out in a 16:9 rectangle?
my displays... (Score:2)
My desk at work, from left to right:
- 15" (1400x1050) (Dell Latitude D630, Fedora)
- 19" (1280x1024) (Dell Optiplex 755, Ubuntu)
- 2x17" (1280x1024) (Dell Precision T3400, Fedora)
- 20" (1440x900) (iMac, OSX)
- 15" (1400x1050) (Dell Latitude D630, Windows 7)
Everything is tied together with synergy.
I have a computer attached to my TV... (Score:2)
Also, my Prius has a display used for showing fuel efficiency as well as the rear-view camera picture. Does that count?
1500" with 300+ tricorders (Score:2)
But my crew is 300+ people.
J.T. Kirk.
question = ( TV || !TV ) (Score:2)
Computer 2: 720p 37" LCD TV used as monitor.
Main room: 720p 55" plasma TV hooked up to an Apple TV.
That's pretty much it (not including smartphone, etc.). Are those TVs or monitors? Based upon use, or inclusion of a tuner which is never used?
Ah, ambiguity (Score:2)
I live in the Batcave, basically. (Score:2)
'Battlestation' 1
Samsung SyncMaster 2493HM 24" LCD, Machine1-Primary
Samsung SyncMaster 940BX 19" LCD, Machine1-Secondary
Wacom Cintiq 21UX 21.3" LCD Tablet. Machine1-Tertiary
Samsung SyncMaster 940BX 19" LCD, Machine2-Primary
Samsung SyncMaster 940BX 19" LCD, Machine2-Secondary
'Battlestation' 2
HannsG HH-241HPB 23.6" LCD, Machine1-Primary
Samsung SyncMaster 940BX 19" LCD, Machine1-Secondary
Puts me just short of 145 inches. A shame my projector is DLP and not LCD, or that figure would double.
So yeah, I live in t
To sum up (pun intended) (Score:2)
This poll is simply silly! Just glancing at the topic, I came up with two obvious problems, but skimming the comments, I realized that there's actually five!
1. Display sizes (diagonal) aren't additive. One 30" display has twice the area of two 15" displays, so treating them as the same is stupid.
2. "Non-TV" is ambiguous. I can display OTA broadcast on my computer's monitor, and browse slashdot on my media center display.
And after reading the comments, I added the following three:
3. "My" is ambiguous. D
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Just a slight correction, but on #1, you probably meant the 30" has four times the area of two 15" displays.
I really wish the poll poster just went with megapixels or pixels.
Where is... (Score:2)
"I'm still on a teletype, you insensitive clod!"
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You post title made me curious so I had to add up all the monitors I regularly use as well.
Main workstation (27" iMac with 22" external monitor): 2560*1440 + 1920*1080 = 5 760 000 pixels
Living room (older 24" iMac connected to 32" LCD (technically a TV although it has never been used as such): 1920*1200 + 1360*768 = 3 348 480
Netbook (Lenovo Ideapad s10-2): 1024*600 = 614400
Work laptop (15" + 19" monitor): 1440*900 + 1280*1024 = 2 606 720
All in all it comes to 11.76 MiB or 12.33 MB. More than I thought actua
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Oops, I suppose that would be MiP or MP...
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But then again: it works great. I can read my comics and
There isn't even a TV-cable or receiver connected.
My only other screen is a 2 inch phone screen.
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42, obviously. Please turn in your geek card at the door.
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I have 6 at home and 3 at work!
I actually find it painful to use a single display setup now. I find laptops especially painful to do real work on. Once you get used to that level of screen real-estate, it's hard to work with less for anything beyond trivial work.
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I use multiply monitors as well and for a very similar reason as yours, I just can't play MMORPGs any more.
A while back, I played a lot of Anarchy Online and got used to playing with 3 PC/monitors, 2 active characters with side-by-side monitors and stacked keyboards/mice and another PC/monitor off to the side with a character standing around in town as a shop. Ever since then, anything less that 2 characters at once feels slow paced. Admittedly, I am more of a RTS player than RPGer or FPSer.
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I've never found virtual desktops to be as good. The type of programming I do (or, well, the way I do it more specifically) tends to involve a lot of reference material. Flipping back and forth is just not as good as being able to quickly glance up (or left, or right).
Additionally, I tend to have a lot of extra stuff going on. IRC chat, web browser, and most of the time I have a movie / tv show going and I like to keep my volume mixer handy. Video definitely needs it's own monitor for obvious reasons... cha
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Hum, no it does cut. I normaly use only one monitor (yep, I'm a cheap bastard), but once in a while I work with two. There is a huge difference. If you are using Linux you'll be glad to have those multi windows apps split on several screens, just so that you can maximize the working window, while all the status and tool windows are easily accessible on the other screen. Often when I have more than one monitor I use both monitors on all of my 4 virtual desktops (sometimes when using just one monitor I increa
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A braille interface or audio interface doesn't count as a display...
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That may be the worse excuse for trying to squeeze metric into a thread, ever. You think because you measure in metric that there totals would had up to zero if measures with inches?
I mean, come on. you are just being annoying and doing nothing for metric.
I say this as someone who wants everyone to go metric.
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It was just a joke about the US centric nature of Slashdot, nothing more!
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oh my bad:
That may be the worse excuse for trying to squeeze Slashdot's US centric nature into a thread, ever.
I do hope you aren't taking the serious.