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[binary512]

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[jmpreston]

I recently bought an Apple 27" but use it at higher resolutions than your 1080. 1080 isn't worth the money if you have much to do and need several applications open. The Apple 27" Thunderbolt display is much more beautiful than my older Dell 20" displays, I use 2 one each computer, but for productivity it is only a little better than 2 20" displays. A rough guess is 15% or maybe 20% better. For me that matters.

I have an office in the home and the Apple display is vastly easier to move into the living room so I can work with my MacBook Pro laptop in my recliner with a nice view of the patio :-) If portability is needed than one 27" is much better than 2 20".

[TsarNikky]

An excellent example on why cute tablets will never really fit in a business productivity setting. Tablets may be nice for "show-n-tell" settings; but, when the work really has to get out, a nice large monitor is really helpful.

[species27]

I've used a Dell 27" for the past 4yrs and it has been truly excellent even by today's standards. I do a lot of work from home and my main requirement is for multi tasking especially with several spreadsheets.
If you have limited space then you cannot go wrong and the prices have come down dramatically since I bought mine.
If you have the space then two screens can be preferable depending on what you require, and the cost for two is less than what I paid for one 4 yrs ago.

[chick59602]

Three years ago I bought a 32" Sony at a closeout price under $400 and am spoiled forever. Added benefit is lots of screen desktop space to add all of the gadgets, widgets and other doo-dahs that I like to have for system information and one-click access. Running at 1360x768.

[c05772]

Just one point: if you had a pivot function on your monitor and if you were using it (you should), then you would not use the built-in speakers and conversely.

Now if you use the pivot function, you need more space on your desk than the screen itself (to be able to rotate it) and then you need the external speakers far apart (again to be able to rotate the screen easily).

So a pivoting big screen should have two sets of built in speakers (on the four sides) with an automatic switch between the the two pairs. This one does not exist yet.

For now, I use two screens, one landscape and one portrait and a separate pair of speakers.

[sawman]

I have a 30" Dell in the middle, 20" left of it and 17" to the right. Works real nice with tv going in a window on the IPS 30", security cam window in corner, room for CPU and GPU temperature windows, desktop occupies the left monitor with date time temp and cpu usage info widgets. Different pictures of the grandson mostly for wallpapers on all three, except the Oceanside Oregon sunset on the center IPS is in the rotation. Productivity is amazing if generating invoices for my work off webpages and scanning and emailing operations all visible. Display Fusion to manage the three monitors. 765 square inches is pretty handy to have!

[xsygma]

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An excellent example on why cute tablets will never really fit in a business productivity setting. Tablets may be nice for "show-n-tell" settings; but, when the work really has to get out, a nice large monitor is really helpful.

Maybe a tablet that has HDMi-out and a USB port to connect a portable HDD. And, I don't know, some sort of physical keyboard+trackpad (or even bluetooth)...

Oh, wait...

(I'm waiting for the Pro, though)

[xsygma]

I'm pretty happy with my 24" dell @1080p, I only miss my dualhead setup when I'm working on 3DS Max and need to render and apply materials (i used to have those things on the secondary screen, leaving the primary only for modeling. I would be happy to upgrade it to a 27" Dell IPS panel and two 21" in portrait on both sides if I could.

[dg27]

I agree that bigger is generally better within reason. My current primary monitor is an HP LP2475w @ 1920 X 1200. I have used a dual monitor setting for many years and my current 2nd screen is Dell 2007FP running at 1600 X 1200. I agree that when it comes to "real work" a tablet just will never cut it. Video editing, heavy Photoshop use (with palettes on the 2nd screen), and spreadsheets are much more manageable with a large screen and even better with two larger screens. One issue not addressed here at all is screen technology: I use IPS screens exclusively and would never consider any less.

[KnuckleHeed]

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[KnuckleHeed]

I bought a 27" the first time they came out. I can't believe you only got one now?

I want to try a 32" but you guys have the capacity to do that. Why don't you try one and tell us?

Be of some use, eh???

[WalterLuffman]

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An excellent example on why cute tablets will never really fit in a business productivity setting. Tablets may be nice for "show-n-tell" settings; but, when the work really has to get out, a nice large monitor is really helpful.

I would have agreed wholeheartedly until I discovered how much I can do with my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. No, it will never replace a workstation or even a full-time number cruncher's computer with multiple big displays, but business productivity comes in many forms. My tablet has more than enough computing power, and a large enough display, to handle word processing, form entry and not-too-big spreadsheets, making them adequate (with a decent keyboard) for most of the things executives, managers and salespeople do during the workday.

But I don't think tablets were ever intended as replacements for business-office computers anyway. Tablets are highly mobile devices that are designed to let people access and consume content wherever they are; while a keyboard-equipped tablet can also be used to produce content, that isn't their real purpose. (The Microsoft Surface and Surface Pro begin to blur the line, but I think of them and similar devices as "convertible ultrabooks" rather than pure tablets.)

[DranilGupta]

I WILL PREFER A 30 INCH DELL MONITORE WITH DELL PRECISON 3600 WORKSTATION ,32 GB DDR3 MEMORY,XENON PROCESSORE,2X2TB =4TB HDD WITH WINDOW 8 PRO WITH MEDIA CENTER PACK ALONG WITH A TV TUNNER CARD ,NVIDIA QUDRO VIDEO CARD ,BLUE RAY RW OPTIC DRIVE,THIS CAN SERVE YOU AS A DAY TRADING AS WELL AS PLAYINGG LATEST PC GAMES AND TO WATCH TV NEWS .

[brainout]

For my Win7 machine I'll be installing two monitors: one, my Toshiba TV, through the HDMI port; the other will be a Dell UltraSharp 19" monitor at max reso of 1280x1024. I could instead use my 20" Dell 2010H, which will be 1900x1024 (if memory serves, I just got it at Dell Auction and it's not arrived yet). That one is Widescreen 16:9, and will be vital to my onscreen videos.

Nota Bene: most video editing software now (i.e., Cyberlink) will only let you choose 4:3 or 16:9. So if you do instructional videos with your monitor, you end up jumping through a lot of hoops to get the dang HD video properly rendered. (I can only do it using an old version of AVS4YOU Video Editor, which they still will allow downloading: version 3.5.)

Theoretically, I should be able to get two 8.5" windows side by side if need be. Frankly, the 19" does everything I want, except for the stupid Windows tendency to enlarge the dialog box when you enlarge fonts. I don't want a monitor larger than I can lift, so I can quickly move the monitor to my standing station, or to my desk when I feel like sitting.

So will report on the efficacy, when I get the HDMI cable.

[waldojim]

DranilGupta, on 10 November 2012 - 05:19 PM, said:

I WILL PREFER A 30 INCH DELL MONITORE WITH DELL PRECISON 3600 WORKSTATION ,32 GB DDR3 MEMORY,XENON PROCESSORE,2X2TB =4TB HDD WITH WINDOW 8 PRO WITH MEDIA CENTER PACK ALONG WITH A TV TUNNER CARD ,NVIDIA QUDRO VIDEO CARD ,BLUE RAY RW OPTIC DRIVE,THIS CAN SERVE YOU AS A DAY TRADING AS WELL AS PLAYINGG LATEST PC GAMES AND TO WATCH TV NEWS .

I would prefer you look for a keyboard that allows you to turn off the caps lock...

[maisun]

I consider multi-tusking with two screen or a big screen a bit too show off. Right now, the best you can do is learn how to use Alt + Tab and quickly switch between your workspaces, Speaking of which I don't see how Win 8 will help.

[maisun]

sir, You sound like Tony Stark

[bvonr]

I have 2 Samsung Monitors 27" and a 24" The 27" is 1920X1200 and the other is 1920x1080 (definitely prefer 1920x1200) with Windows 8. The new OS has great features for dual monitors. Productivity is fabulous for writing and revising manuals as I can have 4 on the screens to compare. Flight Sim is great as all my controls are on one screen including different views and the main screen lets me see where I am flying :-)