For the last couple of weeks, I have been experimenting with monitor spanning ion my iMac. After the initial glee had worn off, I began to have my doubts about whether this was, exactly what I had been yearning for since, well, probably ten years when I first saw a computer with two monitors.I always felt that I was limited by screen real estate, but now I realize that there are consequences. In a sense, this cut the video capabilities of my computer in half, since the video card has to work to support double the real-estate on my computer. And at this point, performance is everything. I need to squeeze out every single last Megahertz out of my computer just to process all the audio I have been tweaking these months.
At least I got the monitor as a loaner. I can return it, and I think I will in the next few days. I think I will only plunge to two monitors if, and only if, I wind up with a laptop as my primary computer in the near future.
That being said, it was a fun experiment. I guess I realized that my money would be better spent on a larger screen than by trying to support two screens at once.
It's like these two screens give me vertigo. They give me headaches, I feel that one screen is allotted for only one hemisphere of my brain. I find it difficult to process all the information presented to me at once.
I guess I have a one-track mind. I already suffer from sensory overload, and I find two screens to be visually distracting. I need to find a way to minimize the distractions I have at the computer in the first place.
My desk to too small for this kind of setup anyway.
