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Panasonic Dual-LCD PC
FreeBSD-RockS writes: "Panasonic released a desktop PC called Panacom LC/W with two 15-inch (1024x768) LCD monitors arranged side by side. The LCD screens can be arranged so that they can be used either in a portrait or a landscape form. The new model will be put on sale on March 8 and the retail price through direct marketing is around $2000 USD."
After all, the PC will eventually (rapidly?) become obsolete... While the LCDs would be a hot piece of hardware for much longer.
Dual monitors rock - I remember setting up a Power Mac 7100/80 like that back in the day. For the cost of one 17 inch monitor, I had 2 15 inchers doing extended desktop. Amazing how hard it is to go back to a single screen.
Two thousand dollars does seem a bit steep, though. I wonder what other sorts of features are included? Hell, I could get a freshly discontinued G4 and two Apple 15 inch studio displays for that, and Apple kit is generally a bit higher in price than this sort of thing.
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anyone have a copy of the text? i couldnt find the page on google's cache
Cool!
Now, if only I could separate or cross my eyes just right, I could use these for 3D vision for about 2k less than that other 15" screen...
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Not to mention that the PC that's at the heart of that system will become obsolete long before the LCDs will.
cool
Now when I pull up pr0n on my computer, I can have 1 15" breast in each window!
Hey, with one of these, I could read /. at -1 again, and not worry about the page widening posts!
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He hasn't done a single one yet.
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That was a fast slashdotting. Anyway, I've had an idea like this for a while, although I imagine my desired monitor layout is kinda different. Years ago, I used to use a standard two-fold wallet; small, convenient, and good enough. Then, when I started getting too much junk for it, I switched to a trifold; even smaller cross section, though thicker; room for more cards; and just more convenient.
/two/ screens that unfold, one on top of the other, giving you effectively 1024x960. Now, there would be no way to conceal the joint between the screens; this would be two monitors, not one large one that fold. But even so, it seems like a beautiful idea.
Basically, what I want is a trifold laptop. Currently, laptop size is limitted by screensize. (See the picturebook or libretto for proof.) With a trifold, you could have a laptop the size of the picturebook (2.2 lbs, 1024x480 screen) with
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Of course, there are higher-end LCDs out these days like the Apple Cinema Display that come ever closer to surpassing CRTs on this front. The other features certainly are no comparison!
It'll be tough, if not impossible, to use this on an airplane but, damn I like it.
I'mm still eagerly waiting for my mylar film LCD (ePaper), where I can roll up a 20"+ touch screen and put it in my briefcase or where ever.
Dual screens are good, but I would much rather have a single 22" or greater LCD than multi-ple smaller ones. I find the seperate screen borders distracting. As a matter of fact, I am still awaiting a 54" LCD true desktop that I can write on and use as a true visible workspace.
But the Panasonic is a step in the right direction. The more screen space the better!
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Actually, screen size is not that important. If the resolution is there, you can always just sit closer.
What bugs me about sub-notebooks is the keyboard size. If that could trifold, but still be rigid enough for me to do my normal pounding on, then you'd have something.
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Since then I have been looking for an excuse for a second display. Until recently however the thought of paying for dual 18" LCD displays was just too much and now the model I have is no longer made so if I bought a second one it would not match. Like what is the point in having kewl stuff if it looks crappie? Also the demise of 3DFX means that I would also have to get a new PCI monitor card to drive the thing.
I agree with the other posters about not really wanting my PC built into my display. My computer system lives out of sight about 5 ft from my desk and is connected to the desk by 2 cables, the monitor cable and the USB cable. I have a USB keyboard, mouse and CDROM drive on the desk
Idealy I would move the computer into another room altogether 'cos the fan is pretty loud.
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I don't get it... What's new about this? Dual-monitor stuff has been around for a while.
I don't think the fact that it's 2 LCDs is anything special. What did I miss?
LCD manufacturing quality is "bad" enough with people treating pixel-perfect LCDs as holy idols.
It seems like a risky undertaking to release a model such as this when probabilities say that you double the # of exchanges per customer if you double the number of LCDs a customer buys.
I'd be interested in finding out what their "modified" standards are for a faulty LCD with this new model.
I don't see the big push MS has for multiple monitors. No home user would want the expense in dollars or desk space, electricity of having two monitors.
Multiple desktops, or oversized desktops ala ATI's old video drivers (before MS WHQL removed the ability) is a much, much better solution.
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Although I can't see this link (thanks /.), I have to say "bravo!" More people should be exposed to the wonders of multi-monitor setups. As a developer/author, I have found the added real estate of multiple monitors more than outweighs the benefits of huge monitors. Thus, I buy cheaper 19 and 17 inch CRTs and have WAY more space to work and play. Good for Panasonic!
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Hasn't this been avail for XWindows like forever.
Even Win98 forward has supported this.
Seems like a very overpriced box to me.
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Looks like its been /.'d. Would be good for designers but I cant see it taking off with Gamers.
I still would prefer a single, larger LCD panel, say 1600x1200 (or better yet, something even bigger that could display 1920x1080 HDTV). Two 1024x768 panels still have fewer pixels than even a single 1600x1200.
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Unfortunately the server is already /.'d for me, so I don't know if my question would be answered in the press release.
:/ Maybe use one display for FOV stuff and the other for displaying weapon, health, ammo, map, etc?
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One of the most interesting reasons for setting up dual displays for me would be for gaming... more FOV. With most systems, however, only one 3d card is used to display the game, while the other stays on the desktop. Would it be up to game designers to add a feature that would allow both screens to be used for displaying the game, or is that at the window manager level?
Furthermore, what would be the best way to handle this for FPS (and most non-FPS games actually) where the main action is in the center of the screen? Your crosshair would fall on the break between the LCDs.
Any insight would be appreciated.
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I currently run two monitors, side by side, in a similar configuatrion. I bought a PCI Voodoo3 at a local Fry's for abour $25, and a second monitor. Beats the heck out of spending $2k for a new box with features I don't want. But, I'll gladly sell it to you for $2k.
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So, seriously, tell me again why a computer with two monitors is worthy of being a
I searched for it and found a bunch of Japaneese sites. I don't think that this thing is very new judging by the amount of sites. Unfortunately I can't read Japaneese :(
http://db.ascii24.com/db/review/pc/allinone/2001/0 1/06/621648-000.html
If you've been to a financial firm you see 2 and 4 monitor getups all day long. I use one from 9-5 every day.
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Consider the total real estate available to me. I have an 18" LCD with a total area of about 168 square inches (usable). Plus a pair of 14" LCDs for nearly 200 square inches. The point being, for a large spreadsheet the 18" is clearly superior. If however, you need to watch two things at once (2 web pages or 2 spreadsheets or 1 and 1 whatever) the two smaller screens are FAR superior. It all depends what you're using the screens for.
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...that this was produced by Apple, so that it would be a must-have life changer instead of a boring system with two monitors.
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Well, thanks to the hoards of slashdotters, the english site is down and out.
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http://www.sense.panasonic.co.jp/shop/ncpo/catl
Anyone read Japanese?
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The link in the story was already slashdotted so I found some pics on Panasonic's Japanese homepage
I like the pic at the bottom of the page showing how you can flip one screen around facing away from you so that two people sitting at a table facing each other both get a screen.
With a multi-tasking OS, one user could use the mouse and the other the keyboard and work on seperate tasks.
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Aside from the usual @dose it run Linux?) I also want to know more detailed specs. Too bad the site is slashdoted beyond recovery. Anyone care to post info?
Sure you can go out and build a system with 2 19@ monitors for less but alas if you make a compatibility blunder it's all on you head. In other words if you are an artist or programer with limited hardware experience you should buy this rather than building your own.
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If you can't read someting Asian, at least you can look at the pretty pictures here: http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/stapa/0,161 6,4140,00.html
What's ALSO interesting is the 'Private Key' Hardware shown partway down the apge.
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Take two monitors into the office? That's nothing
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I'm running a triple monitor setup. Three used 17" monitors for $30 apiece, a RageXL AGP as the primary card, and two $15 Imagine128's off ebay. It's pretty cool, great for really wide spreadsheets or graphics work.
The site is currently down, but you can find more information on the Panasonic LCW in Japanese at Panasonic's site, and a large picture of the computer at ASCII 24. This is nothing special, really, it's quite easy to upgrade your computer to a dual monitor by using an inexpensive dual-port video card such as the Matrox G400, using the X Citerama extensions or the built-in Windows 2000 support. At my last job, where we had lots of extra monitors (because of layoffs), I had 3 high-resolution montiors hooked up to my Windows XP machine. I was planning on adding even more, until I myself got canned. ;-(
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I used to have a three monitor set up at work, pretty neat although the window manager needed some work to make it perfect.
I've been thinking about doing this at home. But I want accelerated digital 3D $$$
So do we have multi AGP ports on any mother boards?
Is the PCI bus ever going to get increased bandwidth?
To me the bandwidth limitations of the pci bus would seem to be a limit on futre expansion.
Tried to go to the site in the article and it was way slow. Here is a non /.ed link to a nice image of the unit...
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However, I don't see a huge use for it outside of our community. I can just imagine the questions from Joe-average-user: "Where'd my durn cursor go?" I could see it being useful for servers because one monitor could be the "output" window for all that useful chatter and usage statistics.
It would have to be built into whatever game one is playing for it to be useful there, too. Imagine a simple racing simulator with the main monitor displaying the front view, and the secondary monitor displaying all manner of gauges, a rear view mirror, etc.
I'm thinking of more esotheric problems - unless your video card has dual outputs, you'll need a second video card. I've not seen any motherboards, Mac or PC - that have dual AGP slots. This would affect performance on that second display.
There's also the fact that two displays do not a large desktop make, necessarily. I know I'd rather have a large, contiguous workspace rather than have two clearly separate and spaced-apart screens.
Granted, this is splitting hairs I guess and each side has it's pros and cons and depends wholly on your needs and preferences. I'm just stating my opinion on this arrangement... :)
Do a google search and look at all of the sites that it is on. All of the sites are in Japaneese. Can anyone shed some lite......or translate :)
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A year and a half ago, I walked into a place(trading shop) and the tech's there had three or four monitors they switched between by moving their mouse. How is this any big deal? Not only did they have several monitors, they could choose which computer under their desk actually displayed on each monitor...so each computer spewed onto one or many monitors, depending on what they wanted. How is this better?
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For anybody considering building a multi-monitor setup of their own, you should definitely consult Multi-Monitor Resources which has a database of almost 3000 video card/OS hardware combinations that people have tried, along with their compatibility results. Dualhead and Twinview are very nice as single card solutions, but the old school setup is to use one video card per monitor. One guy in the database has a five-monitor setup, each driven by its own card.
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Whats up with processor? For $2k I want some number-crunching capability.
I have however, had luck with a two keyboard system [Macintosh], when some friends from Galudet would come by, we'd set two folks up on a system with two keyboards, so they could communicate without having to write everything down, and keep passing paper back and forth.
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Does anyone out there know about the future of LCD display technology? I've been curious about this. With CRT's, it seems intuitive to me that a small increase in screen size (say, going from 19" to 21") would result in a large cost increase. The technology doesn't scale well, so a linear increase in screen area doesn't translate to a linear increase in cost.
But is this necessarily true with LCD screens? It seems to be based on the way they are priced. But technologically speaking, why can't I have an LCD screen with 4 times the area of a 17" screen, for 4 times the cost?
I'm curious because I'd love to be able to buy a nice 50" widescreen LCD monitor for my home computer in ten years or so, for maybe $400 or so. Will it happen?
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http://k-tai.impress.co.jp/cda/article/stapa/0,161 6,4140,00.html
Everyone thank our friends at google for this link. Not a mirror, but a start.
http://www.panasonic.co.jp/pc/prod/dt/82/index.htm l
Panasonic's own page states that the screens are 15.7" screens capable of SXGA, ie. 1280x1024 (not 1024x1024 as stated above).
For $2000 I could buy 20 iPaqs, and create a 56"x70" display.
Seems like this one comes with a decent keyboard.
Schematics and pics can be found here.
It does look more like a portable desktop computer.
I wonder what the battery life is like. You can probably count it in nanoseconds.
(Is SXGA a buzzword or is it just some standard I missed?)
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I bought two 19" Viewsonic LCDs (VG191s) for $1565. Throw in a DIY computer for another $500-$600 and you've got a much better solution for the same price .. with monitor swivel support.
One of the other posters commented that it was stupid to create a PC with dual LCD panels because the system will depreciate before the LCD panels.
:)
For laptops this is not the case. Some vendor should create a laptop with dual LCDs.
Specifically this image
Imagine if this was a laptop. Would be REALLY slick and I would pay the extra $1000 for this.
They would need the ability to operate conventionally so that you could still use it with one LCD panel because you wouldn't be able to use it on an airplane.
I am sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco right now on 802.11 and it would be nice to have dual LCD panels. One for Emacs and one for Mozilla
I love our single Bloomberg terminal here at work. I think I'm the only one that really does anything with it beyond the DES, WEI and MA screens. When I'm running Excel to download stuff, I'll frequently have Excel on the left LCD and one of the Bloomberg screens on the right LCD.
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wow, someone is enjoying his first semester of calculus. :-P
IMHO, dual CRT setup (21inch and 17inch) is better than Apple Cinema 24inch. .....) don't know about graphic works though...
In our lab three guys are using dual CRT setup and one guy is using Apple Cinema Display. Honestly, that one guy envys our setup. I'm using 17inch LCD at home (SGI 1600) but dual CRT setup is far better for working environment (coding, debugging, documentation,
--the ACD guy wants to put another lcd on his machine, then we don't have a choice but kill him:)
Why throw them away? granted no buisness or serious gamer would buy a LCD with bad pixels, but it would seem to me there is a market for LCDs with a small number of non-intrusive bad pixels. The menu bar on the bottom of my desktop for instance doens't need all the pixes to work. And if there are one or two in the middle of a large display I can live with that.
Mind you I expect to pay a large discount for the displays with bad pixels, but I would buy a 15 inch LCD with 5 bad pixels for $49.95, and it would seem to me there is a market there. And since they would throw them away before they make money.
Of course maybe they recycle the bad LCDs, in which case they do need to make more profit over the cost to recycle a bad display. Still I would think this could be done. Anyone know the costs?
Combining two smaller displays into one effective display system is a smart idea. I wish that "stitchable" displays where available. I remember a discussion about this once. Essentially, the probabability of failure of a display is proportional to the number of pixels in the display. The ratio of "wasted" pixels, is of course, proportional to the number of pixels in the display. So as displays contain larger numbers of pixels, both the probability of failure and the "wasted" pixel count grow quickly.
But if one could manufacture smaller patches of pixels (say 128x128 blocks) and stitch them together seemlessly, building larger displays is as easy as stacking more of these blocks together. Yield problems become less significant, because per-block testing can be done to ferit out units containing bad pixels. The amount of wasted display area is also small and independent of the final display size.
Is anyone working in this area? I thought that other technologies (Plasma or LED?) were heading this way. Also, I think that this addressed some of the signaling issues too. The 128x128 pixel blocks could be accessible in a "networked" fashion. Data would stream from a central controller to each block using a high-speed protocol. The block would contain its own patch of RAM and drive the display locally.
Anyway, I hope someone get's this working soon. We need ubiquitous 21" flat monitors and 65" HD displays.
There are photos of it on Japanese pages here and of course on Panasonic's own Japanese sites, here and here. (Doesn't anybody use Google any more?)
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wow, someone is enjoying his first semester of calculus. :-P
Or maybe the second or third semester of first-semester calculus.
For under a thousand dollars more (<$3000), you can get nifty Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop with a 1600x1200 (UXGA) 15" LCD plus a second 21" monitor with 1600x1200, supported by an Nvidia GeForce 2 Go 32 MB graphics card running in "TwinView" mode either in Windows2000 or X-Windows. I've done that.
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3200 x 1200, baby. It's nice.
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For sale through various OEM's, including Dell. Cheaper too. Three screens for 2000.
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this picture looks suspiciously like the dual monitor iMac i made as a joke.
It still looks mostly like a glorified laptop to be honest. But the fact is, as many have pointed out, nothing really new. Aside from Bloomberg, Massmultiples (www.massmultiples.com) has been doing this for quite sometime with 2,3, and 4 flat panel setups.
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Bad points first - Annoying. Two monitors are annoying. Some of us can't make the little white space inbetween them disappear. One big monitor? Rock. Then, there's electricity. My computer is plugged into my UPS. It gives me five minutes of power. If I had my monitor in, it'd give around 1 1/2 to 2. Big difference, and quite a bit of change to have two monitors, especially for those of us who have our computers on most of the time.
Good points?
MechWarrior 4. And other games I suppose I still want to design a 'cockpit', where I can look around and see a different view of the screen. Would it be an unfair advantage?
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I run a 19" Hitachi as the main screen and 15" LCD as the second under OS X on a G4 box. The other day when I accidentially started X Windows full screen (normally it's run with unrooted windows) it ran just fine on both monitors. This with no configuration on my part (I am only an egg) it just ran.
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Imagine a video wall of these!
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Take a look a the pictures in http://www.sense.panasonic.co.jp/shop/ncpo/catlog
You either put this thing on a stand or end up with a broken neck at the end of each working day!
...with two 15-inch (1024x768) LCD monitors...
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Are you sure they're 1024x768? The Panasonic Japan website lists SXGA resolution (15.7", instead of the 15.0 we're used to seeing).
IIRC:
VGA=640x480
SVGA=800x600
XGA=1024x768
SXGA=1280x1024
I'm pretty sure from look at the mirror site, these are actually 1280x1024 resolution. Which I would like even better than my current 1024x768 LCD I have at home!
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I started with an ATI Radeon All-in-Wonder and Rage something-or-other as the secondary card. This worked fairly well, except the TV on the AIW wouldn't work unless I rebooted Win2K with just one video card. To play games I at least had to disable the second display (didn't have to reboot, though). But for regular Windows apps, this worked great; apps maximize to just one monitor, popups don't cross monitor boundaries, most things just worked better.
Not happy with the performance on the second display (PCI instead of AGP) I splurged and got a Radeon 8500 with built-in dual-head. And yeah, the performance is great... but the dual-head support is utter crap. The DVD playback can't full-screen properly, apps get confused about which monitor (or both) they should maximize to, the mouse pointer behaves erratically near the monitor break, and you can't set the two monitors to different resolutions. Oh, and the software gets confused about how to use both monitors across reboots; sometimes forgetting the bit depth, always forgetting that a 2560x1024 display should span two monitors, not be constrained to one. ATI has yet to patch any of these problems.
The LCDs themselves... well I use flat CRTs at work, and I prefer the LCDs, even for graphics work. The sharpness of LCDs is extraordinary; it's especially unforgiving of JPEGs, as I can see a lot more distortion on these than I can on a CRT. It did take me a while to get the color balance decent, though--and even longer to get both monitors to match each other. But I can fit two of these on my desk without having to use industrial-strength support. The two together weigh less than a single 21" monitor.
The Panasonic unit looks interesting but it's probably going to be a very niche item. Most people can't justify two monitors in their minds, even though once you use one seriously for work, you end up liking it quite a bit. (You can pry my second monitor from my cold, dead fingers.)
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...there had better be a lot more to it for me to give up my 2x1600x1200 + 1x1280x1024 displays.
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Then simply go to Mass, Inc. and pick a system with up to 4 15- or 18-inch LCD screens. I'll take the C3H18, thank you.
(This was posted previously on Slashdot, but it took me a while to find it.)
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FYI the P part of AGP stands for port. Ports are for point-to-point connections; many people confuse this with a bus, which is designed for multiple devices.
This is something people seem to disagree on.
A large monitor is great. A bigger monitor is better.
But for somethings.. 2,3, or 4 displays can be handy... especially when you really aren't after one big desktop (like, for widescreen movies, spreadsheets, etc). or graphics (because you end up with color variances between displays, etc).
Multiple monitors can be very handy... like, one web page open in one to read documentation... and my editor on the bigmonitor....
Every multi-head setup I've had involved a central, main screen (19" or 21") and smaller, 17 or 15 inchers on the sides.. these were usually used to just stick monitoring windows, slashdot.. whatever on . The central big one is for the work.
This side by side setup looks great for office work.. not great for games.
Well you don't exactly see the crack-slashdot programming team jumping to fix this one...
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Check out the picture of that wierd dude's head at the top. Japanese culture scares me...
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I've been using some manner of dual head system for a few years. Once you get used to having the real estate, it's hard to go back. I now have a pc with one big AGP-connected monitor and a secondary 17in runnig on a pci card, which is great for non-graphics intensive stuff like a terminal window, mp3 player, contact manager/schedule, but mainly for displaying documentation or assignments or other useful info while i'm coding on the bigger monitor.
Anyways, my point was that i end up using my extra monitors for simple stuff like showing a text document, which could easily be done by an old laptop or obsolete pentium desktop you have lying around. So, you can use x2vnc or win2vnc to link the computers together. I use this to set my laptop next to some other display, and i can mouse over, even copy and paste, like both displays were on the same system.
"Display Data Channel, a VESA standard for communication between a monitor and a video adapter. Using DDC, a monitor can inform the video card about its properties, such as maximum resolution and color depth. The video card can then use this information to ensure that the user is presented with valid options for configuring the display."
shown here.
My new TiBook G4 hooked right up to my 21" Trinitron (also ported to my Sun workstation). And it does Xinerama between the 1152x768 flat panel and the 1600x1200 CRT. better Xinerama than Sun provides, too. So nice doing opaque drag between them.
Apples, NeXTs and Suns have been doing this well and easily for years. My Sparc 20 can run multiheaded and it is a 1994 machine.
OK, he didn't actually say that, but if you're looking for Panasonic drivers that actually work you have to go to their Canadian site.
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I don't much like the look of this Panasonic set-up, looks like a novelty rather than a productivity boost. Try http://www.panoramtech.com/ for a better solution...
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Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of THESE!!!
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Come on now, did you guys leave your sense of humor at home today? That was damn funny.
If you buy a new iMac, you can hook up an extra flatpanel to its VGA port. If you wanted to.
Which means you not only get a blazing fast G4, the wonder and joy that is Mac OS X instead of the misery that is Wintel, FireWire and wired and wireless networking built in, and to top things off the SuperDrive, a DVD/CD burner/reader.
All that, for less $$.
... Check out Mass Multiples. They have a great selection of dual (both portrait and landscape), triple (in landscape and pyramid), and Quad LCD configurations. They come in 15" and 18". One caveat is that Max Res. on each is 1280 x 1024.
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I got my wife a 1024x768 LCD display (GEM-150ATA, $289 after rebate from Fry's). It's beautiful. The auto-setup does a great job... but my 19" tube has 2.5x more pixels at 1600x1200! The article is talking about 2x 1024x768, which is still 20% fewer pixels than my current display. That's not much of an upgrade -- unless you measure by sheer area.
The article says they will make upgraded base units (left unsaid: if the original sells enough!). But except for the fancy swivel hardware, the LCDs are the part that's already out of date!
No, that was long ago. That's just all I can remember!! :-)
How 'bout this:
The integral from 0 to cabin equals the log of cabin plus c which equals houseboat...