MovieCutter said:Same hereJackSYi said:
Some people clearly have far too much money to spend
, surely they could find something more useful to spend it on? 
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Is the ACD 30" TOO big?
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Some people clearly have far too much money to spend
, surely they could find something more useful to spend it on? 
ricgnzlzcr said:
That's the same thought that went through my head when I read the thread title.
But seriously, I only have a 19" CRT, and I can already tell that existing windowing schemes are going to fall short on a much larger display. For instance, the "maximize window" widget is kind of senseless. There are not too many windows that you want to spread across the entire span of the screen. Instead you should be able to define regions to maximize into, as if the screen were actually separate monitors and a window could be maximized to fill each one.
Unfortunately I don't have this problem
yea thats good point that most app scheme doesnt really translate well on a 30" LCD.
Web pages are an obvious example.
and who would use Pages across the whole screen.
Of course with photoshop and graphics is a whole different story.
After quite a few days of use, i am getting used to it, but it still too big and I am thinking that 23" is more than enough.
When you consider the additional heat and energy that this thing puts out and uses.
Now if a 23" with the same contrast ratio comes out this week at WWDC, then its all settled.
Web pages are an obvious example.
and who would use Pages across the whole screen.
Of course with photoshop and graphics is a whole different story.
After quite a few days of use, i am getting used to it, but it still too big and I am thinking that 23" is more than enough.
When you consider the additional heat and energy that this thing puts out and uses.
Now if a 23" with the same contrast ratio comes out this week at WWDC, then its all settled.
Well I took some time yesterday to play with a 30" at the Apple store doing some Photoshop work and I'm in love. If only I had a computer that could drive the monitor (and the money to buy one)! I did some simple tasks on the 30" that involved some detail work. Then I tried the exact same things on a 23". It took me noticeably less time to complete the tasks on the 30".
If you do graphic or video work, learn to deal with the 30"! It's amazing!
If you do graphic or video work, learn to deal with the 30"! It's amazing!
I'm not a graphic designer, but I dream of a 30". What I'm working with now is the iMac in my signature, with a 15" 1024x768 LCD stapled to the side. It's funny to think that only a few short months ago, my primary workstation was an 800x600 iBook....
I'm generally working with anywhere between twenty and thirty Safari tabs open on various pages of my Wiki (I use a MediaWiki to organize my writing). I wish I could have seven full-sized (ie, 1 page) windows "in the front" -- I think that'd improve my productivity by 600-700% (no joke -- it's all about parallelism). I don't have the real estate for it, especially since I'm often working with maps and I'm not quite clever enough to implement my own version of Google Maps.... not to mention that I have charts and tables and graphs roughly the size of Rhode Island, a lot of lists, and so on. As it is right now, I usually have three windows -- one map on the li'l LCD, two windows side by side on the 20".
Ideally, I would like to have a 30" screen in addition to the 20". That's my dream 8) Which isn't going to come true any time soon since I'm going back to school
I'm generally working with anywhere between twenty and thirty Safari tabs open on various pages of my Wiki (I use a MediaWiki to organize my writing). I wish I could have seven full-sized (ie, 1 page) windows "in the front" -- I think that'd improve my productivity by 600-700% (no joke -- it's all about parallelism). I don't have the real estate for it, especially since I'm often working with maps and I'm not quite clever enough to implement my own version of Google Maps.... not to mention that I have charts and tables and graphs roughly the size of Rhode Island, a lot of lists, and so on. As it is right now, I usually have three windows -- one map on the li'l LCD, two windows side by side on the 20".
Ideally, I would like to have a 30" screen in addition to the 20". That's my dream 8) Which isn't going to come true any time soon since I'm going back to school
Well after more than 2 weeks I decided to return the 30" and bought the new 23" that came out with a new Macpro.
Here are the reasons why i switched to the 23"
I have to say that the color saturation is better on the 23" and more uniform.
Also it uses about half the power and produces less heat.
I like the fact that I can see the entire screen without tilting my head etc.
Less tilting and moving my head around to see the on screen object.
I love being able to see the room around the screen LOL!
as for the 30"
First I acknowledge that the 30" is great for SHOP work and more real estate etc, that an obvious given. Better for detail work and focusing on on small area of the screen.
I found that I was uncomfortable with my head so close to such a large EMG field on the 30", it was weird.
I think that 30" is great for a TV screen etc but for a computer, I personally found it TOO large.
I may perhaps buy one in the future to place it over head to view film edit instead of using a composite monitor, time will tell.
Thanks to all for the help on this issue, I appreciate it.
Here are the reasons why i switched to the 23"
I have to say that the color saturation is better on the 23" and more uniform.
Also it uses about half the power and produces less heat.
I like the fact that I can see the entire screen without tilting my head etc.
Less tilting and moving my head around to see the on screen object.
I love being able to see the room around the screen LOL!
as for the 30"
First I acknowledge that the 30" is great for SHOP work and more real estate etc, that an obvious given. Better for detail work and focusing on on small area of the screen.
I found that I was uncomfortable with my head so close to such a large EMG field on the 30", it was weird.
I think that 30" is great for a TV screen etc but for a computer, I personally found it TOO large.
I may perhaps buy one in the future to place it over head to view film edit instead of using a composite monitor, time will tell.
Thanks to all for the help on this issue, I appreciate it.
Hey, thanks for the update! Appreciate it, I'm thinking that I'll buy a 30" test it out for a week and then see what happens!
How far away from the monitor are you?
How far away from the monitor are you?
I dont find myself ever having to tilt or turn my head to view my monitor, but thats because I have the monitor a bit over an arms length distance away from my face. I think any closer than that would be fairly uncomfortable and not the distance the monitor was intended to be viewed at.
I think the advantage of having multiple windows all spread out in view is absolutely wonderful. Great for doing research, running large excel spreadsheets, along with room for the fun stuff IMing and itunes. This is on top of the obvious benefits with graphic work.
I think the advantage of having multiple windows all spread out in view is absolutely wonderful. Great for doing research, running large excel spreadsheets, along with room for the fun stuff IMing and itunes. This is on top of the obvious benefits with graphic work.
Killyp said:
Well... the short answer is as many as you have dual-link dvi ports to plug them into.
The long answer is that the newer G5s had 4 PCIe slots, which meant that you could run up to 4 graphics cards. The graphics cards with two dual-link DVI ports on them took up two slots (because of their massive size), so you could run 4 30" displays if you had two of these cards. Also, you could get 4 smaller cardseach with one dual-link and one single-link DVI portand run 4 30" displays and also an additional 4 smaller displays out of the single-link DVI ports.
On the Mac Pro, you can run two large cards and one small card because one of the Mac Pro's PCIe slots is larger than it was on the G5. This means you could run 5 30" displays and 1 smaller display all at the same time.
Fun to imagine...
