A week or so ago I decided that I was going to go down the dual monitors route. Reason why is because after reading quite a lot of people saying how much it increases productivity, I thought it’d be worth trying.

I ordered a Connect 3D Radeon 9550 256mb graphics card from Amazon for £37.82 and it turned up this week. Installation of the card was simple, as I only had to remove the old card and replace it with this one. The problem came when I got no signal through DVI. Turns out it was because the plug wouldn’t go in correctly due to the monitors bad design. I wouldn’t mind but surely HP knew of this, since they supplied the DVI cable with the monitor!

When I got everything up and running, I had my main HP widescreen 19″ LCD monitor with an old HP 17″ monitor set up. It was quite odd being able to move the mouse cursor from one monitor to the other, especially when the monitors were the wrong way round! The quality of display of the LCD compared to the old monitor was so much better. So now I plan to get a new widescreen 19″ LCD monitor.

I know that having two monitors won’t necessarily improve my productivity, but I certainly think it’ll make things a lot easier. For example, for keeping track of the Baseball, I won’t have to keep switching browser windows.

I’ll post more about this once I get the new monitor and have it all up and running. It’ll be interesting to how much of a change it will be - positive or negative.

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