Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience

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• Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience

  30" Display is a good choice to start optimize your desktop experience. I use a 42" lcd tv and it is awesome.

  

  slvr1969

  2 November, 2010 11:11

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• Optimize the desktop

  I've had dual screens and programmable mouse for a very long time. It's what you always wanted. I just added a Bamboo last winter. Pen input on dual screens isn't very good due to scaling issues on double wide sceen space. <br><br>Also not mentioned add an HDCP compliant video card / Monitor and have really great video from a BluRay media player too. On the desktop HD video looks quite nice up close.<br><br>Start mutitaking a lot lot things like gadgets and other toys to keep you up to date with what else is going on all the time. You can stay connected 24 x 7 with a lot of things both personal and technical and not at a per minute billing rate. Desktop to desktop chat is free.<br><br>Rather than virtual desktops that were old news 15 years ago add virtual machines instead. our multi core CPU is probably under used as it is. VM's will solve that under used resource. The big screen area on a desktop has so many more ways to expand and explore cool technoilogies. Graphics cards that can really drive it all are quite cheap.

  

  PBlais

  2 November, 2010 13:50

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  • RE: Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience

    @PBlais I think you'll find that the built-in schedular makes much better use of the cores than running bulky virtual machines! ...Unless you are using Windows 95 or something...

    

    DragonAX

    3 November, 2010 13:12

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• RE: Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience

  Meh, wish I could afford a nice monitor.
  
  Never really got into virtual desktops. They didn't really help me that much.
  
  Tablet input works best on a tablet PC. I've tried both, and it really helps a lot to see what you're writing underneath your pen.
  
  I like Logitech's mice that have that internal clutch, so you can switch between a wheel that clicks and a wheel that scrolls smoothly.

  

  CobraA1

  2 November, 2010 22:02

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• $1500 for a 30" 2560x1600 monitor?

  ...or for those of us NOT on an unlimited budget, you can get THREE of Dell's 23" ST 1920x1080 monitors for about ONE-THIRD the cost (and the 23" ST is a great monitor).

  

  nfordzdn

  3 November, 2010 05:08

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• Portait displays

  I use a pair of 23-inch displays, rotated to portait so each is tall, not wide. You don't know how productive you can be till you've edited two pages across, larger-than-life, or read an entire Web article without touching your mouse.

  

  paul613

  3 November, 2010 12:48

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• RE: Photos: Tools to optimize your desktop experience

  Programmable mouse? No thanks. I have really no need for that. Unless someone finds a way to unprogram the side buttons to avoid hundreds of unwanted "back" actions in my browser ... I'm ready to use superglue to disable that damned button!

  

  pwcdr

  3 November, 2010 23:49

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• Oh WOW! They have virtual workspaces...

  Mac has finally caught up to KDE and Gnome...meh.

  

  jeverettk

  4 November, 2010 09:42

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• Thanks for the effort..but

  there is no small irony in a flashy slideshow-style article about optimized experience..

  

  jsgordon420

  12 November, 2010 13:28

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