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My PC has become a communications tool. I live on Email and Skype Chat, while working on office documents and sharepoint sites.
Even though I have a wide screen Sony laptop I’m always flipping screens, especially with IM.
I could use a Cinema display, but I still need a laptop. So what I really need is a laptop that can drive a huge resolution screen like the Apple 30″ monitor which runs a resolution of 2560×1600.
I can’t flip to PowerBook but if anyone knows of a PC laptop that drives a big screen let me know.
Wouldn’t it be great if Skype could auto-dock. Expand when required and then slide away.
Comment from MichaelB:
I use my laptop as my main pc too and was wanting more screen space. Here’s was I did: I setup up 2 external 19″ monitors, one was in landscape mode(normal) and other I swivelled 90 degrees to portrait mode. I used the first monitor for my main work area, and second monitor (portrait) for displaying docs, like pdfs, or debugging output. I kept the laptop screen for email, etc.
The larger the monitor you go to, you don’t necessarily get more screen real estate (or the ones that do give you that, cost heaps), so use more cheaper (commodity) monitors and you will probably get more screen space overall than going with say a 30″ probably.
To plug in more than one external monitor you will most likely need to use another old pc and then use MaxiVista www.maxivista.com to output your laptop video to that (or there are USB video devices appearing now, but still a bit exe and not great resolution last time I looked).
To manage your desktop, use UltraMon http://www.realtimesoft.com/ultramon/ - allows you to drag windows between the windows and manages task bar.
See what you think…
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