Chip's development computer
Cluso99
Posts: 18,069
Yesterday while having a Skype conversation with Chip he showed me his computer setup. What a sight to behold!
3x 55" 4K monitors turned vertical. He picked them up on special for $250 each. But he has to drive them in a lower resolution because the characters are too small AND the monitors are too smart so they dither the edge of the characters which actually makes them blurry. Driving them at a little lower resolution prevent the smarts from working, resulting in great viewing.
Jealous? You bet!!!
3x 55" 4K monitors turned vertical. He picked them up on special for $250 each. But he has to drive them in a lower resolution because the characters are too small AND the monitors are too smart so they dither the edge of the characters which actually makes them blurry. Driving them at a little lower resolution prevent the smarts from working, resulting in great viewing.
Jealous? You bet!!!
Comments
We first heard about this setup when heater gave Chip a visit and was shown around the palace. I have to imagine 3x 55" monitors is even more magnificent in person than reading about it. I'm sure imagine is all I'll ever be able to do :P
I do have to wonder though... doesn't his neck start to hurt? Unless they're so far away that he is wearing binoculars (which, come to think of it... not a bad idea), he must have to move his whole head & neck about quite a lot.
His biggest issue is that he gets so focused on design and coding that he forgets to breathe.
I switched back to 1080 monitors. The 4K native resolution was okay with 150% scaling, but a lot of the work I do doesn't support scaling. My eyes feel great now. It's been months since the switch and I still feel the difference.
The boss has 4x 24" monitors and my boss has 3x. All the others have 2X.
I remember being so happy with my 20" CRT monster. A 20" CRT is about equivalent to an 18" LCD.
Are you sure those monitors were 55" ? I kind of doubt they were that big... That would be something like 7-8 feet wide with 3 of them (and that's rotated vertically) and 4 feet tall.
Last I saw he had multiple ~28" monitors rotated. I run one 32" 4K monitor and two 28" 4K monitors (one is above the 32" one and one is on the side rotated). I don't think I could ever go back to lower resolution.
https://forums.parallax.com/discussion/166012/25-megapixel-desktop
Hello!
To quote an old friend, "What he said!"
I agree. In my far off youth, I did some phototypsetting on a first generation Mac expandable, the Mac II design, and yes it wore two monitors. I kept needing to keep track of its mouse pointer. Finally I programmed in a sound byte to tell me where it was.
It was fun for a while. Then I got involved with more interesting thing, and that's why I'm here.
I've seen people use full size HDTV ones (Very big ones.) for displaying their work, of course that was running Linux..... But that's a discussion for a different use case.
So is the stickiness of moving the mouse between screens.
But after using 2X 24" monitors at work, I am itching to get the 3rd onto my new pc. I mainly have email and the phone system on the left monitor. I'll put the current background task on the right monitor and use the middle for the main work. When I am copying pieces of HTML code from one file I will be able to have that on the right while the working HTML on the centre, and still see my emails etc on the left.
I often use NotePad++ for comparing two files. That would be a great use for a larger monitor though.
Damn! Just chucked a 43" std def plasma TV. Should have tried that on my desktop. May try it on my main tv -just another tiny 43" plasma.
My kids have humongous TVs. Michael has an 80" 4K. Now that would make a nice pc monitor
Wow!
Does Michael sit in the neighbour house to enjoy that picture ?
They are maybe 2.5-3m away. Looks fantastic with tiny bezel.
For a long time, I used one monitor. Laptop, on the road.
I have picked up one of those USB panels and can set it up in a pinch.
I put my chatter, various source "copy from" windows, video, whatever on second monitor.
Still like to use alt+tab to quick toggle. When I have one screen, it is still fast to work.
Once for fun, I had one machine serving fonts, one serving the window manager, yet another running NFS mounted on all machines to hold program and data, another handling keyboard mouse, and finally another one running the actual program.
Edit, another one was serving licenses.
Two clicks on an icon and all those machines lit up, delivering it to the user as if it were all local.
Why, yes Chip, my birthday is coming up very soon!