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SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: bleargh on January 06, 2012, 12:08:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on January 06, 2012, 08:51:57 am ---I wish 4:3 monitors were still around. I prefer them.

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Agreed... I wish we could get back to the hi-res displays we used to have, and get rid of this "1080" crap... for years I had a pair of 21" CRTs on my desk that each did 2048x2048, and being forced to switch to a pair of 24" LCD widescreen 1920x1080s after our flood a few years back was like taking a f'in step backwards by ten years.

Although I'll admit that the extra width is nice (2x widescreens is like having 3x CRTs wide), the drop in resolution is just crap.

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THANK YOU!

I'm one of the last bastions who insisted on keeping my 4:3 multi-monitor setup. The damn penny pinchers decided that my CRT's sucked down too much electricity and I've been forced to live with a pair of crappy LCD monitors. I didn't even have the option of going 1080, they gave me the cheapest pair nobody would buy. They're not even 4:3 or 16:9. They're something like 2 pixels off from 5:4. Took me months to figure out why I couldn't get a sharp image on them.
 :soapbox:

The whole 1080 ---fudgesicle--- fest is just maddening really.

Samstag:
I use a pair of 4:3 LCDs at work.  They're still available in various places, although the ones we buy lately are more expensive touchscreens.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: Samstag on January 15, 2012, 12:23:11 am ---I use a pair of 4:3 LCDs at work.  They're still available in various places, although the ones we buy lately are more expensive touchscreens.

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Actually I prefer 4:3 too, but the added room with the wide screens is helpful, but placing them to be productive is difficult.  College has the 19" 4:3 and they look huge in comparison, so much that I am thinking of pivoting my 22"s into portrait and placing them slightly behind each other to hide the bezel. With ATI Infinity I can make them one display, but that defeats the object to have separate displays doing different tasks.

I found out a huge performance benefit:  Turning off Aero.  Games, applications and boot all increase like 50%, even the USB2VGA adapter (which have issues with Aero anyways) is much faster in operation.  I wanted 3 22" displays but now I am not sure now.  Maybe a 17" 16:9 would angle the displays better than 3 22". 

I'm going to mount the 2 17" 4:3 vertically so I can then start using them in Mame and Visual Pinball.  Super Punchout will look so awesome!

   

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 10, 2012, 12:01:46 am ---Does Windows support monitors stacked?

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Let me clarify: you can span the display horizontally between monitors. Can you vertically?

drventure:

--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 16, 2012, 02:41:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on January 10, 2012, 12:01:46 am ---Does Windows support monitors stacked?

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Let me clarify: you can span the display horizontally between monitors. Can you vertically?

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Yes, In the display settings, there's a screen where you can literally drag the monitors around to any position you like. Put one on top of the other, to the left right, below, offset, etc. Any arbitrary position you want.

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