Battle of the monitor and the... monitor?

[aklikins]

I'm not sure I understand the point of wide screen monitors. With my useage patterns, about 25% of the screen is wasted, over there, off to the side, full of white space

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[pete23]

I have my main work screens deployed in portrait mode for precisely this reason. The graphics card is a dual head config used for our trader desktops, and the drivers are perfectly happy to run any orientation...

[aklikins]

Yup, thats the theoretically simple part. It just doesn't actually work on any hardware/software I currently use.

[scromp]

I tried this for a while..

wow that was big in the page

It kinda gave me vertigo.. but you sure could see a lot of code.

[aklikins]

Tried it for a while on someone else's machine, and I liked being able to see lots and lots of code.

Didn't really get to play with it long enough to see if it was insane or not. Probably is, but it's worth a shot.

[gorski]

don't know what the best way to do it is for you, but I have a cheapish widescreen lcd monitor to plug into my Macbook Pro at work which will display nicely enough rotated 90 degrees. The physical stand doesn't do that, but I'm going to request a new base as soon as we have the budget for such things again. If you're curious as to the model, I can tell you when I'm back in the office on Monday, but I doubt it's a particularly unique piece of hardware. (and of course, the software is just Leopard... 10.5.5 apparently just does this.)

... Civil war nerds will point out that the Monitor was the Union vessel which did battle with the CSS Virginia, which was a captured, armored USS Merrimack.

peace,

--me

[aklikins]

Doh, I always get those two backwards. Should of looked that up.

[ovrclokd]

yes, this. and especially on a laptop, which is how i do about 80% of my work these days, since i travel so much. why do we have to put up with something that's less convenient for everything we want to do (and more awkward to fit into a laptop bag, even) just because those cheap bastards want to save money and give me fewer pixels? (and then expect us to thank them for "improvements to suit the growing demand in gaming and digital entertainment applications". the nerve.)

lcd manufacturers: fired.