Why two monitors?

[Guest]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

[jdidia1006]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

 

Depend on what you are doing with the computer.

[KamiKatze]

Manage more stuff simultaneously and by that increase workflow.

[Enderman]

because more pixels?

because you can do two things at once?

how is this not obvious???

[Johannes_Lazor]

Watch a movie(or similar) at the same time as browsing LTT, Like what i do right now.

Or multitasking in general.

[AlwaysFSX]

Streamtown on one, gameplay on the other.

[Ganz]

Productivity.  Nothing is more valuable to have multiple windows open while working.  Let's start with school.  Say you are working on a paper.  You can have word open on one monitor, and the internet open on another. Gaming?  Have the game on one window and music/internet/game supporting (timers etc) on the other.  I for example use 3 monitors both at home and at work as a programmer.  There is never a moment when I monitor is blank.

[RollinLower]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

play fallout 3 on one monitor, while using the other one to display a full map of the wasteland.

also, playing battlefield, have one monitor displaying the action, and the other a life feed of the map with player locations and such.

 

point is; it's definitely not nesessary, tough it can be pretty handy in some situations.

i'm also sure there are many, many more things you could do with a dual monitor setup, these are just the things i use them for.

[paprikman]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

You can play some games and monitor your stream/temperatures at the same time.

Also, it's very easy to concentrate on one screen, when u work, rather than on one of the windows in the same screen.

I really like having my sdk on first monitor and browser & console on the second one.

[Guest]

Depend on what you are doing with the computer.

 

I just play games and watch movies/YouTube that's it.

 

EDIT: Oh, and some photoshop, not at high levels though.

[Ostwind]

A better question to ask is "Why only one monitor"

[adamsjus1]

You can play a game and mess with your  skype call or just look up stuff.  Watch a movie while you play. Manage stream.. 

 

Just general multitasking which is always helpful. 

[Ssoele]

A better question "Why only two?".

[Maslofski]

you can have more screen space for non gaming stuff, you can play and watch a video, you can monitor your temps and such on one, you can play splitscreen on 2 monitors in Grid autosport, more pr0n at once, etc

[WereCat]

I was always using just one monitor and though it is enough for me. Recently I got second because it was really cheap... Now I feel like 2 is not enough.

Productivity went up quite a bit. I can have so much stuff open and I don't have to waste time by switching between windows.

When I play games sometimes I also watch YouTube on the other one and usually I have Skype, Steam, music ... Etc opened in there.

[CommandMan7]

I just play games and watch movies/YouTube that's it.

 

EDIT: Oh, and some photoshop, not at high levels though.

2 monitors increases productivity. 3 monitors improves gaming. Either go 1 or 3, if you go 2, then you'll just end up using 1 for games because the bezel is in the middle.

[Aurora906]

Even if all you do is browse the internet a 2nd screen is nice for music players or to watch a movie on.  When gaming its nice to be able to monitor your pc on the other screen.  

[sqwidee]

So, I use a 1440p 27 in Asus monitor for my workstation and I can easily keep windowed Chrome, Spotify, and multiple Word/Excel windows. So yeah, dual 1440p monitors would be the dream. 1080p is kinda crap resolution for single-monitor productivity.

[Guest Generallee]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

 

Because 2>1

[CalumGiff]

Please give me some good reasons to use two monitors instead of one

Simple things like playing a game and keeping TS or a walkthrough open in the other window

[Guest]

Eh, I just tried 2 monitors, it doesn't add anything for me.

[Cwazywazy]

Do you ever alt tab to look at another window while watching a video or playing a game? A second screen negates the need for that. I love having my two Acer 1080p IPS monitors. Even two completely mismatched screens is better than just one. (Years ago I ran a 1600x900 and a 1280x1024. And I loved it.)

 

And, of course, if you have three you can game over them.

[olbaze]

Eh, I just tried 2 monitors, it doesn't add anything for me.

 

It'll take a bit of adjusting, as most people build rigid habits around having a single monitor.

 

For me personally, I've used dual monitors to eliminate alt-tabbing in videogames/media consumption and to help with workflows that require referencing two or three things simultaneously.

[Tuloth]

Having more monitors gets addicting.  Once you've used two you can't go back to one.  And now that I've had two for awhile, I want three.  I shudder to thing what happens after that.