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Posted by Hugh
Jan 15, 2013 at 02:33 PM
Ben - if you face the menu-bar issue again, it may be worth looking at this round-up: http://mac.appstorm.net/roundups/utilities-roundups/30-apps-for-your-multiple-monitor-setup/
Posted by Ben
Jan 15, 2013 at 02:47 PM
Thanks for the tip, Hugh. I played with SecondBar when I was using the Mini. It has some issues with screen locking—something required by my organization—and while it appears similar to the native menu bar there are a few visual differences that bothered me—it was a sort of UI uncanny valley.
Posted by Hugh
Jan 15, 2013 at 02:54 PM
Ben wrote:
...it was a sort of UI
>uncanny valley.
:)
Posted by Gary Carson
Jan 15, 2013 at 03:29 PM
I’m using an HP laptop with a second (emachines) monitor big enough to display two full pages of a Word document side by side.
I’ve been using double monitors for years now. They’re an absolute necessity if you ask me. Getting a second monitor is perhaps THE best thing you can do to boost your productivity.
I’d like to have more monitors—a lot more—but I don’t have the hardware for it right now.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 15, 2013 at 03:51 PM
Wow, interesting to hear from Mac users on the issues involved - I did wonder how well the latest versions of OS X handled multiple monitors. That’s deffo a bit of a turn-off.
What about Linux? I’ve been contemplating my various Linux machines (mainly elderly netbooks/notebooks) and realise I’ve never actually experimented with multiple monitors. Dunno why not. Maybe because it’s so easy to switch from one desktop configuration to another in Xubuntu (far and away my fave Linux distro).