As always, a great write up by my Uncle! Yes, I'm the "infamous" nephew mentioned in this article. If it was up to me, I would have more than three monitors, need to convince your niece! I prefer more, since I am constantly switching between projects across multiple businesses. I have three 4K 27" monitors that gives me 11520 x 2160 pixels of pure joy - the literal opposite when it comes to real estate of your screen.
Here is the breakdown of my set-up most of the time:
On left screen: top left quarter is Slack, bottom left quarter is combination of Teams and Chrome (work login), and right vertical half is VS Code.
On central screen: left vertical half of Chrome with pinned items like my Uncle of email and few repetitive sites I access, and right vertical half of Chrome for actual browsing or testing.
On the right screen: top left quarter of work VDI, top right corner of Chrome (consulting login), bottom left quarter of terminals, and bottom right Slacker, MPC, etc for media.
Unlike my Uncle, I definitely cringe when I'm on my MacBook Pro during off site travels! I feel I am so limited by 2880 x 1800! I will say, I do have to turn my head between the three monitors, but it's worth it over keyboard shortcuts. Or having to remember between overlapping screens than across multiple monitors where I can see everything with a glance.
I'm not going to put your perspective down compared to mine even though it seems so strange to be constrained to such a smaller screen when you have the options to have multiple! I will leave it that we both have a very different style that works for each of us. However, go big or go home! 😁
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As always, a great write up by my Uncle! Yes, I'm the "infamous" nephew mentioned in this article. If it was up to me, I would have more than three monitors, need to convince your niece! I prefer more, since I am constantly switching between projects across multiple businesses. I have three 4K 27" monitors that gives me 11520 x 2160 pixels of pure joy - the literal opposite when it comes to real estate of your screen.
Here is the breakdown of my set-up most of the time:
On left screen: top left quarter is Slack, bottom left quarter is combination of Teams and Chrome (work login), and right vertical half is VS Code.
On central screen: left vertical half of Chrome with pinned items like my Uncle of email and few repetitive sites I access, and right vertical half of Chrome for actual browsing or testing.
On the right screen: top left quarter of work VDI, top right corner of Chrome (consulting login), bottom left quarter of terminals, and bottom right Slacker, MPC, etc for media.
Unlike my Uncle, I definitely cringe when I'm on my MacBook Pro during off site travels! I feel I am so limited by 2880 x 1800! I will say, I do have to turn my head between the three monitors, but it's worth it over keyboard shortcuts. Or having to remember between overlapping screens than across multiple monitors where I can see everything with a glance.
I'm not going to put your perspective down compared to mine even though it seems so strange to be constrained to such a smaller screen when you have the options to have multiple! I will leave it that we both have a very different style that works for each of us. However, go big or go home! 😁