A dual monitor set up can be beneficial in both a business setting as well as in your own home. When at work do you find yourself switching between two programs rather frequently? For example, let’s say your email and your line of business application? And while changing applications you’ll lose your train of thought? Or at home do you enjoy scrapbooking your family’s photos, and it would be really handy to keep the scrapbook page open while sifting through digital photos, dropping in various photos while trying to find the perfect one to fit in your collage? Then you are a perfect candidate for dual monitors.
Each monitor has a different program displayed and you can move your mouse between the two, as well as picking up programs and dragging them across to the other monitor. Microsoft has tried to replicate the dual monitor capability of viewing two programs at once in Windows 7 with the Snap feature. Essentially, you take two programs and “Snap” them together so they can be viewed and used at the same time. The only drawback to using the Snap feature of Windows 7 as opposed to dual monitors is space! Your single monitor is only so big therefore you can only see a limited portion of the program. An even bigger obstacle if your vision is challenged! Some computers already come with the capability of hooking up two LCD monitors to them, particularly laptops which typically do have either a VGA or DVI connector on the back to hook up an external monitor. If you’re fortunate enough to have this setup, all you need is the second display, which is very affordable!
In any case, we at DeBug would love to give you a no cost consultation over the phone to see which option may work best for you – we love helping our clients taking the best advantage of the technology they own, or are very close to having that last missing piece of the puzzle!