I have a 19-inch LCD monitor on my home PC and wonder if I should get another one the same size and run dual monitors, or give my current monitor to my wife and I buy a nice 24-inch single monitor?I have a fairly new PC with dual HDMI graphics card. I use the PC for all kinds of things - graphics programs; games; internet. While money is not unlimited, it's a secondary consideration just now.What are the disadvantages of dual monitors?
If your primary usage is games, buy the large screen. If your primary usage is MS Office/internet/ buy a second screen. I have two and it rocks.
no disadvantages that i know of. you can play a game on one screen and do other stuff on the other one but on the other hand 24 would just be nice. don't know its a hard choice
I'd give your wife the 19 inch. and splurge on 2 nice Samsung SyncMasters. Have these side-by-side is completely incredible. While one big monitor is okay it is nice to have programs confined on a screen. I have a Samsung Syncmaster 225BW and a 204B (which rotates which is nice when working on documents or looking at long scrolling websites). I usually put the tool bar right in the middle of them and work away. So get yourself two 21 inch plus monitors. But get same brand to avoid some annoying color difference that might occur, esp if you are working with graphics.
I run dual monitors and its great. Even if my 30 inch Apple cinema display is huge, it gets fast little again when you used to the big one. Y just change the way of working by running more and more programs at the same time. I run my cinema display from my MAcBook Pro that has a 15.4 inc display. On the smaller display I run all small programs like MSN, Skype, all that has small footprint on the screen, mostly to monitor progress etc and it works great like that. I cannot see any real disadvantage with running in dual mode, you get an fairly big extended desktop to play with.
I've got dual monitors, at work and at home. I LOVE using 2 monitors! The only down-side (if you want to call it that), is that some programs won't let you drag windows over to the second monitor, which is stupid. Most do, but some don't. I use mine for film/video/music editing, and some of those programs I'm using are restrictive in this way (Vegas Video, SoundForge, Cubase, GigaStudio). But other than that minor irritation, it's MUCH better having two, than one big one, because the big one isn't that much bigger. Maybe if it were like 32 inches wide, it would compete.
