2+ monitor setups.....How?

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Originally Posted by texasranger

Al gore has 3 huge apple 30 inch displays connected to his mac pro.

It looks like he's busy inventing the Internets or the "al-gore-ithm"...
(oh the horror of lame jokes, lol)

Either way, that's still a sweet setup, which would totally pwn at video editing, CADding, or website development. And seeing how I frequently do all of those, I would love to have that setup, as currently I just have an older Apple CRT (which has very high screen resolution) from my ancient G4 PowerMac plugged in as a secondary monitor on my laptop (which has a maximum resolution of 1024x768).

Originally Posted by John Gutmann

Well since Dave answered my question so simply I guess i should ask what some peoples opinions are on things. The first thing I can thinkof right now is what people feel about a 4:3 vs widescreen (9:16 or 10:16 or whatever) I cannot justify buying a 4:3 except for the fact that you can get one on newegg for just about 100$ compared to me paying 250$ for a nice Westinghouse widescreen. What do you guys think?

-John

Go for widescreen. The recent trends for television and computer monitors has been moving away from 4:3 and towards 16:9 or 16:10 models.

And you're willing to spend a bit extra, find one that utilizes a DVI input, because some of the higher end monitors have additional USB and Firewire ports on the monitor itself. (Which can save you the hassle of needing a USB hub or additional PCI cards.) Dell and Apple both make monitors that have additional ports on their DVI monitors:

http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/p...9&sku=320-4688

(Note: these monitors are usually quite a bit more expensive than generic LCD monitors, but usually Dell and Apple LCD monitors are accepted as some of the best around.)