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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.
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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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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Tell that to the Mac community, which I'm pretty sure is the largest group of 'Photo Retouchers'.
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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
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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You might want to check out this site. Quintuple-head anyone?
Apple's LCDs are among the best available, but for critical work, even they are not always good enough.
While the gap is closing, LCDs simply lack the wide color gamut of CRTs. Of course, all the other benefits of LCDs vs. CRTs apply.
Digital photographers are a very picky bunch, and most still prefer CRTs. I use my Mac for exactly this, and I'm using a CRT myself. I'll more than likely get an LCD soon enough, but I won't be tossing my CRT out just yet, either.
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Dell released a PC today with 4 USB ports! (Now you surf the information superhighway twice as fast! - Dude, you're getting a Dell!)
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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?
I have two 19" flat CRT Trinitrons at home connected to a Matrox G450. I highly suggest this card (or the G550) because it comes with good software for possitioning popup windows correctly instead of splitting it in the middle of two displays. It's nice not wasting an addition PCI slot as well, and both monitors have equal hardware pushing video to them. It also makes the display appear as one monitor to Windows, where as having two video cards actually show up as multiple devices to Windows. This allows the Tasktray to span across both monitors, and my active desktop as well. With multiple video cards, you have a master desktop that is just like a single desktop, then all the rest are just additional space to move windows to. I guess it depends on your personal taste, but I like having the displays appear as one to Windows.
My only word of caution: Having an odd number of displays is highly recommended as you won't have the border of two displays in the center of your vision. It's very distracting.
Dell 19" Trinitron
Matrox G450 (because it has dual VGA instead of dual DVI like the G550)
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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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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.
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.
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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