Dual monitor splitter available from Dell just plug it into the video output of the card and plug in the monitors to the cable. Setup the seperate desktops in Windows in the display properties.
Cool, I'll check it out.
1-30" monitor = $1900
2-20" monitors + splitter = $420
Huge cost savings for more real estate.
Don't take my word for it, look up and compare the prices yourself ...
Again with the thirty inch. BTW, I do very little these days except compare prices for myself.
Estimates range to 42% improvement in productivity
Defects lowered by 26%
lines of code increased by 10%
Sorry, but those don't qualify as little benefit....
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If I was shown that doing something would reduce my error rate by 26%, I would do it.
So you believe every "increased productivity" claim on the internet and implement it without checking the data? Are you sure you want to stick with that concept? Cuz' if you do, I can make some serious money. Or is it you believe the only ones that support your preconceptions?
If I was shown that doing something would reduce my error rate by 26%, I would do it.
I have a program that will reduce your error rate by eighteen percent or more. Send me four hundred dollars and I'll mail it to you. OOhhh, you want me to SHOW you something.... me too.
My reputation is worth a whole lot more than the cost of a few monitors. But then the big coperate guys don't think like that.
Oh we do, we just prefer some level of fact to support a claim before we throw money at it.
How can an individual prove an intangible?
Productivity is very tangible. The claim above of ten percent increased productivity and twenty-six percent reduction in defects is a tangible result. I just want to know where those number came from and how much TP was required to cleann them up.
How do you assign data to something that is difficult to quantify at best?
Wait a minute, are you now questioning the posted results you want me to swallow without question?
If an employee is happy, they are more productive, that has been proven over and over again...
And we can make employees happy any number of ways. This goes directly to my questioning of the results posted. His claim of increased productivity and decreased defects was based solely on dual monitors, but what else went on during that year? Like reducing a work week from seventy hours to fifty or having a free lunch every other Thursday. Employee morale is a big issue, but it is not had ONLY at the implementation of dual monitors. If an employee is unhappy over his insurance coverage, dual monitors will do little to improve his mood.
Oh .. it said exactly what I said it did ... you just chose to ignore it as it didn't fit your argument.
It makes a claim with no support, I asked for support, not claims.
No, originally you wanted to know what surveys showed increased productivity.
You said that surveys had
proved that dual monitors increased productivity, I asked "Oh? Which?"
The cost benefit analysis came after your started back peddling
Sorry I didn't give a life history with my original question, but I'm still forward peddling. You seem to think hat my interest in this topic begins and ends with this thread. Sorry to disappoint, but I've been looking into this for a couple of years now trying to justify buying two monitors. You of all people on this forum should know that everything I do has a cost-benefit analysis connected to it somewhere along the way.
So far, I haven't seen any survey that proves increased productivity. Our small sample survey a couple of years ago produced a very small increase in production, but there were too many other factors that would have accounted for that blip to lay the benefit on dual monitors. If realize no benefit in dual monitors, why spend the money?
Well, previously you said you had 500 users ... are we to presume these guys do it all by hand now? I doubt that ... so if they do it now already using computers, you already have 500 monitors, thus you don't need to buy 2 each, just 1 each. Your excuses are beginning to get so convoluted and intertwined that you are making less and less sense as this discussion continues.
The bulk of those monitors are over three years old. We replace between ten and fifteen machines a month, updating our entire inventory every forty-six to fifty months, give or take. Our average use-life for monitors is right at four years (LCDs are doing a lot better than that), so the rotation is just about right. We don't/won't add second monitors to existing stations, (especially if there is no benefit in the effort), we replace the older systems with new hardware including monitors.
