Dual Monitor Duel: DVI Divinity
My love affair with resolution started with my first 14″ CRT monitor - I pushed that sucker to 1024×768 (interlaced) with 256 colors in Windows 3.11. Anything less than that was simply uncivilized. It took years for most users to catch up to that screen size, but I’ve been flying higher than that for quite some time. I only tolerated resolutions smaller than 1600×1200 on laptops.
My desktop is finally alive with a perfect amount of pixels. You might remember a few weeks ago, I was debating LCD monitor choices. Most people informally “voted” for the latest Dell series (3007WFP-HC), which seemed like it would fit the bill (especially with the USB hub and integrated removable media bay).
Given that my readership was largely impressed with what Dell had to offer in terms of LCD screens, I approached them to see if they’d sponsor that part of my videos moving forward. Hey, if we’re going to be filming a high definition tech show in my home office, it’s gotta look the part - right? :) They obliged, and that makes at least three relatively large sponsors for our produced media moving forward: AMD, GoDaddy, and Dell. I’d like to convert TechSmith and Microsoft to an ongoing series, too (but haven’t yet perfected the pitch).
You have no idea what this looks like in real life. Ponzi says: “You have to sit in front of them for it to have total impact. You look like a 2yr old when you sit in front of those screens!” She’s right. These things are larger than life:
If you do the math, that’s 2560×1600 times two. Depending on how we set up the cameras, I may have to move the secondary screen to the left of my primary one (which I may end up doing, anyway - if only for better balance). I’ll have to update this post after Ponzi picks up the video camera to film my graphical giddiness. Thank you, Dell, for supporting our cause!
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31 Comments
Windows Fanatics
November 30th, 1999
at 12:00am
pair of monitors
Jim Turner
April 10th, 2007
at 12:11pm
I thought you were a Panasonic guy?
LordKaT
April 10th, 2007
at 12:12pm
That’s obscene.
Can I have a couple?
Damon
April 10th, 2007
at 12:14pm
Awesome setup - keep us posted as to how well it works out, I’ve been pondering such a setup for a while with the apple cinema displays but haven’t been able to justify that many pixels for fear of getting lost.
Kosso
April 10th, 2007
at 12:18pm
TOP shwaggin’ dude!!
Twitter Pixels
April 10th, 2007
at 12:23pm
A short tutorial on how to set up dual montiors would be kewl…. nice clocks!
Kim Landwehr
April 10th, 2007
at 12:41pm
the green monster commeth (aka boy am I jealous)
peteremcc
April 10th, 2007
at 1:07pm
a short tutorial on how to convince dell to send you two of hese would be cool as well!
Matt Hartley
April 10th, 2007
at 1:20pm
Dude, I am soooo jealous! Here I thought I was rocking things enough with my dual LCDs using Beryl…lol.
Very hot looking setup, must also get a clock like that at some point. ;)
michael
April 10th, 2007
at 1:46pm
your eyes will burn up with all that light coming at them from those
osxlvr
April 10th, 2007
at 2:25pm
hey chris, what kind of chair is that?
Betsy Weber
April 10th, 2007
at 3:24pm
Hey Chris, no need to perfect a pitch. Drop me a line and let’s start talking…I need to chat with you about an idea for Gnomedex too.
Bets
Matthew R. Miller
April 10th, 2007
at 5:16pm
I love Dual Monitors, I have three monitors hooked up to my main machine. One 25″ and Two 19″ on either side.
Where did you get those pattern clock lights?
JT
April 10th, 2007
at 6:03pm
Matthew - You can get the clocks from thinkgeek.com
ET
April 10th, 2007
at 7:20pm
Thanks Chris….
John Mitchell
April 11th, 2007
at 2:54am
Now that you have dual monitors try ultramon, a multi monitor utility from Realtime Software at http://www.ultramon.com.
It made using the dual monitor setup a pleasure and it was so—- easy to set-up and use. I may even read the instructions one of these days.
Hope it helps.
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DWil
April 11th, 2007
at 4:51am
“You look like a 2yr old when you sit in front of those screens!” My wife said something like that but it wasn’t complimentary of me or them. Haha
Grant Robertson —
April 11th, 2007
at 4:55am
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akafurious
April 11th, 2007
at 10:07am
cool desktop chris
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April 12th, 2007
at 5:33pm
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Lisa Lee
April 13th, 2007
at 7:28am
Chris… I’m worried about you.
hehehehe! Love it though! I also agree with above commenter about providing us with a tutorial on how to get Dell (or whoever) to supply us with those! Yes! ;-D
Greg
April 14th, 2007
at 7:31am
What’s the video card(s) you have set up to drive those things?
Joshua Stilwell
April 17th, 2007
at 4:35pm
oh my god im jealous… dual 19s are nice.. but damn dude..
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April 17th, 2007
at 4:45pm
[...] Dual Screen Bliss By Andrew Wardlaw So today I took delivery of a second 19” Samsung monitor Inspired by Chris Pirillo who has got two 30” Dell monitors. Seeing them reminded me of the days when I used to have my laptop plugged into my old CRT and thus dual screened! So I bought another screen. Boy does it rock! Super screen real estate is now all mine! [...]
Arun
April 20th, 2007
at 1:06pm
Your blog chris.pirillo.com hangs my Maxthon Browser (Yeah I love it just as you do!) for about 2-3 minutes… Any explanation?
PS: I just figured it’s nothing to do with the length of your blog’s home page. Even this single post page hung my browser for some time before I could type this comment!
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April 24th, 2007
at 3:13am
all excited
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April 30th, 2007
at 5:00pm
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:13:13 +0200 See, Chris Pirillo is all excited because he has two widescreen monitors. I mock your setup, Chris! As readers know, I’m a long time multiple monitor user. A few months ago, I went for a widescreen in the middle: [IMG My Office] It rocks. It rocks mainly because when using outlook,
Sam
February 23rd, 2008
at 7:01pm
Nice setup bro.
Mine is better :P
DigitalPixie
June 26th, 2008
at 2:10pm
OK I dont know if this can be done.. but in search of my own kind of dual monitor divinity I have to ask…
Is there any way to have 2 DVI monitors (mine are dell ultrasharp 22 inch) connected to both the PC and Mac Book Pro with a KVM switch?
With a dual dvi graphics card for the PC I should be able to hook the two monitors up to the PC
With a Matrox Dual Head 2 Go I could potentially hook up two DVI monitors to the MBP
Now is there some kind of KVM switch that will let me go back and forth between the PC and MBP on 2 monitors?
Thanks!
Tutorialconr
May 8th, 2009
at 1:54am
It would be nice if we could use virtual displays