Adam Fields (weblog)

This blog is largely deprecated, but is being preserved here for historical interest. Check out my index page at adamfields.com for more up to date info. My main trade is technology strategy, process/project management, and performance optimization consulting, with a focus on enterprise and open source CMS and related technologies. More information. I write periodic long pieces here, shorter stuff goes on twitter or app.net.

6/19/2006

Portrait monitors

Filed under: — adam @ 4:46 pm

After several years of a dual-head display, I made a similar leap today – dual-head portrait monitors. (I went from 1280×1024 landscape on each to 1200×1600 portrait). They’re slightly narrower physically than my old monitors, but much taller. lost 160 horizontal pixels, but I picked up 576 vertical ones, and that makes all the difference.

They seem very tall – it’s REALLY nice to have that much vertical screen real estate, and I was missing being able to fill the screen with a page of text and have it be nearly the whole width of the screen.

I can see how this might be a little awkward if you do a lot of gaming or video, but for document editing, web browsing, coding, and email, it’s great.

[update: Here's a picture.]

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