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Multiple monitors

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Multiple monitors

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- Why have just one monitor when you can have multiple monitors? So in this episode, I want to talk about Microsoft Windows use of multiple monitors. It's absolutely fantastic. All my desktop systems have multiple monitors, just because, well, I need all the real estate. So what I want to do is kind of go through the idea of multiple monitors. First of all, you don't need a special video card. You don't even have to have them plugged in to the same video card. You could have one monitor plugged into your built-in graphics and another one plugged into a graphics card, it doesn't matter. They don't have to be the same resolution. They don't have to be the same size. However, I will tell you, it's often a lot more convenient to use multiple monitors when you do have two monitors that are matching in resolution and even size is nice too. So I've got a couple of monitors in front of me. They have the same resolution, different size, who cares. And let's go through some of the ideas of…

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