My Current SP Stock Game

[AMF]

What psimancer said. I've been using at least three monitors for years, for a while there I had six attached to my machine. My wife called it "the control center." When I was running a labour intensive PBeM (not SEIV) I needed that many, now I find that three does the trick. Just gives you a really big desktop. Basic vid cards, $30, work fine for me...so long as you have empty slots and monitors, windows makes it pretty easy...allows me to play SEIV, surf the net, and work on a report all at the same time. Now if I could just convince IT at work to let me have more than one then I'd be really happy. Once you've had three monitors, you can't go back...

Originally posted by Atrocities:
You use two monitors? How?

[AMF]

it'd be hard to do with a laptop, unless I misunderstand them, becuase you need to have a video card for each monitor...can;t really see how you'd get another vid card in a laptop...

Originally posted by dogscoff:
presumably you could play similar tricks with laptops (ie built-in monitro + external one)?

I know you can choose between the two or you can have them both displaying the same thing at once, but how do you have them displaying different things simultaneously?

[Suicide Junkie]

The profs at school do it all the time.

The internal monitor is where they keep their desktop, and then when they launch their Powerpoint and other apps they move it across to the external monitor, which goes into the podium and up to the big projector in the ceiling.

[psimancer]

a laptop's ability to "extend" the desktop to an external monitor instead of cloning the existing desktop is a recent ability most laptops could not do this and were actually hardwired as incapable of running more than one at a time a request sent to free email tech support for your laptop company should determine if your laptop can "extend the desktop" onto the external monitor