Hiya!
I currently have a single NEC 20WGX2 which is a great monitor. It is shared between my Mac laptop and my PC desktop. Normally my laptop is closed and I use my monitor for its display.
However, when I work from home I tend to use Visual Studio on this monitor and use my Mac's screen (1440x900) for browsing documentation, email and IM with Synergy allowing me to share the keyboard and mouse between them.
This works great
but I have fairly poor eyesight and as a result I frequently find myself straining at my little laptop screen when in this configuration. As a result, I was thinking of getting a second monitor to dedicate to the Mac. Ideally I'd like the monitors to match, but this isn't an absolute must. As far as I can see, these are my options:
Constraints:
Any ideas or comments are very much welcome, particularly suggestions of monitors to look at. Sorry for the long post and thanks for reading this far
arty
I currently have a single NEC 20WGX2 which is a great monitor. It is shared between my Mac laptop and my PC desktop. Normally my laptop is closed and I use my monitor for its display.
However, when I work from home I tend to use Visual Studio on this monitor and use my Mac's screen (1440x900) for browsing documentation, email and IM with Synergy allowing me to share the keyboard and mouse between them.
This works great
but I have fairly poor eyesight and as a result I frequently find myself straining at my little laptop screen when in this configuration. As a result, I was thinking of getting a second monitor to dedicate to the Mac. Ideally I'd like the monitors to match, but this isn't an absolute must. As far as I can see, these are my options:- Try to find a second-hand 20WGX2 to add to my existing set-up. This seems to be nearly impossible unless I just fail at looking
- Buy a non-matching second monitor.
- Sell the 20WGX2 and buy two matching monitors.
- Buy one really big monitor which can split the screen (possible?
). - Forget the whole idea
Constraints:
- I'd prefer not to spend huge amounts of money, but I'm not too short of cash so will consider anything up to around £1000 for two brand new monitors if necessary.
- I have a large desk; I can probably just fit 2 x 24" monitors, but I'd prefer them to be smaller (2 x 22" would be more comfortable).
- I'd like any new monitors I buy to have DisplayPort as I also want to upgrade my Mac laptop this year and they all have DisplayPort outputs now.
- I want any monitors I buy new to be an upgrade from my 20WGX2!
- As well as programming I also do a fair bit of gaming and some web design, so I don't really want anything too crummy in terms of input lag / response time, colour reproduction etc.
- I'm not remotely interested in 3D at all.
Any ideas or comments are very much welcome, particularly suggestions of monitors to look at. Sorry for the long post and thanks for reading this far
arty
