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Subject:RE: Business case for dual monitors From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:"Laura Lemay" <lemay -at- lne -dot- com> Date:Fri, 2 May 2008 16:56:52 -0400
Good point. And it keeps the outside left and right edges of the
combined desktop well within your visual field. So no onerous
head-turning required... until you get them 3 and 4 displays across.
:-)
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> From: Laura Lemay [mailto:lemay -at- lne -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 16:16
> To: McLauchlan, Kevin
> Cc: Greg Holmes; TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Business case for dual monitors
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> > Unfortunately, nobody seems to be making what used to be the
standard
> > ratio monitors any more. They're all wide but shallow. Good if they
> > match movie format for those who view movies on them, but not as
good
> > for a nice tall couple of pages of document, side-by-side.
>
> Lots of widescreen monitors rotate into portrait mode these days.
> The setup all of us have at the job I'm working right now has dual 20-
> inch widescreen rotated monitors, which gives you a lot of screen and
> enough height for a very large full-sized page. Its nice.
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