So I dropped the Radeon HD 5870 into my primary production PC. While I was pretty intrigued by its potential 3D performance in games, I was more intrigued by its ability to support three displays.
I know a number of power users (who are not financial analysts or programmers) who use three displays. But using more than two monitors had several requirements I considered problematic. You either had to have two graphics cards, a special workstation card (that wasn’t always a good 3D card) or some type of DVI or VGA switcher, like Matrox’s TripleHead boxes.
All those introduced complexities I didn’t like. I just wanted one card with good 3D gaming performance that supported more than two monitors – and wasn’t a dual GPU card. Now I’ve got it.
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Every now and then, you come across a little utility that just makes life easier.
I’m one of those people whose virtual desktop is as messy as my real world desktop. Yes, I’m one of those terrible users who love to have launch icons for every possible app on their desktop. I also like to have key folders on my desktop. (Note that I don’t hold a candle to Patrick Norton. I once saw his Windows desktop, and it overflowed with icons. I wonder how many browser tabs he opens?)
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I’ve been thinking about the issue of feedback in operating systems, games and applications. I’m the type of person that likes a lot of feedback. If the app seems to be sitting and thinking for some reason, I’d like some sign that it’s alive, at least, and hasn’t hung or crashed for some reason.
But how much feedback is enough? When does it become too much? Then there’s the problem of feedback accuracy. What if what you’re being told is just wrong?
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