I subscribe to the fit as much code on the screen as possible school of thought too.Firefox wrote:Wha...? Just imagine how much source code you could fit on a screen that size!piku wrote:Questions: 30" monitors... why*...
I think dual monitors is more use to me than one big one. I thought having one large widescreen would replace my two 17" screen setup. I was wrong. I now have a 24" widescreen and a 19" 4:3 next to each other, but I could probably get away with two 19" 4:3 screens really.gravy wrote:It's like fast computers, you get used to 30" screens really quickly and end up hating anything smaller. I've had one for a good 3 years now
This. Even a 24" display feels pokey to me after owning a 30" Cinema display for 6 months. You do get used to things incredibly quickly. It's amazing to use, your entire field of view is filled with pixels - Photoshop is a dream on this display, and especially makes sense with the highly configurable UI in CS3.gravy wrote:It's like fast computers, you get used to 30" screens really quickly and end up hating anything smaller. I've had one for a good 3 years now
You can just move your eyes, man.Misfit wrote: However it took me a long time to get used to a 24" widescreen and still pretty much find myself putting a lot of stuff in the middle of it. I think a 30" screen would just need too much head movement...
Some people can't, I'm one of 'emRod_S wrote:You can just move your eyes, man.
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I do. My main display is 24", but attached to the DVI port of my iMac is a 20". I make good use of both. The 20" has Mail, iTunes, Safari's Downloads window and iPulse. The 24" has whatever I am looking at or working on, often two or three different things. I would certainly accept and use a 30" if offered one, as it's a similar amount of screen space.Dio wrote:I don't think more than a 24 is really necessary...
Yes, but that's one of Windows worst features. The grey space between and around document windows is just wasted - if it were at least transparent you could make use of it. Even worse it's severely broken when dealing with multiple displays, especially ones not the same size - you cannot make use of all your screen space. At least some apps like Office, IE, Windows Explorer work the same way as the Mac, but many are still very broken.kalmar wrote:I do suspect Apple make intentionally poor use of screen acreage to stimulate sales of their gigantic monitors. I have a 17" iMac and things get very cluttered, very quickly, and it's not helped by the fact that you just can't get a fresh screen to work in for each major application, like you can in Windows (you know, the background window thing).
Most apps have a hide all other apps keybaord short cut. That works pretty well for decluttering the screen in most caseskalmar wrote:I do suspect Apple make intentionally poor use of screen acreage to stimulate sales of their gigantic monitors. I have a 17" iMac and things get very cluttered, very quickly, and it's not helped by the fact that you just can't get a fresh screen to work in for each major application, like you can in Windows (you know, the background window thing).
I always end up spending ages clicking minimise on things to get back to the one window I want, I'm actually just as productive on my old laptop with Windows 98 and an 800x600 13" monitor, which is stupid.
It's the one thing that irks me most about it at the moment. I'm wondering if the "spaces" thing of Leopard solves it.
It's just gravy though. I do something similar - my laptop's screen has email and anything else 'long term' with the big monitor as the main work screen, but I can't say I'd drastically miss it if it wasn't there.pogo wrote:I do. My main display is 24", but attached to the DVI port of my iMac is a 20". I make good use of both. The 20" has Mail, iTunes, Safari's Downloads window and iPulse. The 24" has whatever I am looking at or working on, often two or three different things. I would certainly accept and use a 30" if offered one, as it's a similar amount of screen space.
Command-option-click on the Dock icon of the app you want to give focus to. Boom.kalmar wrote:I
I always end up spending ages clicking minimise on things to get back to the one window I want.
Hide others - cmd-option-hkalmar wrote:I do suspect Apple make intentionally poor use of screen acreage to stimulate sales of their gigantic monitors. I have a 17" iMac and things get very cluttered, very quickly, and it's not helped by the fact that you just can't get a fresh screen to work in for each major application, like you can in Windows (you know, the background window thing).
I always end up spending ages clicking minimise on things to get back to the one window I want, I'm actually just as productive on my old laptop with Windows 98 and an 800x600 13" monitor, which is stupid.
It's the one thing that irks me most about it at the moment. I'm wondering if the "spaces" thing of Leopard solves it.
