[dba-Tech] New Flat panel display

I also want to run dual monitor.  My biggest question is how it works when
one monitor is at one resolution and the other is at a different resolution.
I do a LOT of remote desktop stuff into client systems, and it is a PITA to
switch back and forth between the remote desktop and my desktop.  So one
thing I hope to accomplish is to have the remote desktop on the external
display and my desktop on the built-in laptop display.  What is still
uncertain is how the mouse behaves in a case like this.  I suppose I need to
hook up my old CRT monitor to my desktop and experiment with this before I
go do this.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:05 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New Flat panel display

I got an Acer 22" for a mere $209 CDN recently. And that was before the CDN
dollar surpassed the US dollar. But that's beside the point. Currently I'm
doing a gig writing Excel VBA code at a place called Franklin Templeton
Investments. The department I'm in is about 90% Macs, and several of the
workers have just acquired 30" monitors. Wow! (Mind you, they now have to
upgrade their video cards because the new permissible resolution is beyond
the capability of their current video, so what they get is the same old
desktop writ large.

Nice as the 30" is, I'm thinking that I want a pair of 22" monitors side by
side and configured to behave as one really wide-screen monitor. My question
is this: the HP box on which I want to set this up has only one video
outlet. Can I simply buy a video card and plonk it in and hook the second
monitor to it, or must I buy a video-card with a pair of outlets on it and
hook both monitors to it?

TIA,
Arthur

On 11/7/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> I am about to spring for a flat panel display to use on my notebook in 
> addition to the built in notebook display (two monitors).  The laptop 
> is a Dell M90 with the 17" 1440 x 900 display (which I really like).  
> I am looking at a 22" external monitor.  These all appear to be 
> standardized on the 1680 x 1050 resolution.
>
> I am looking for tips, suggestions, gotcha's and "don't even think about".
> Does anyone care to pipe up?
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
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