Look, I dig the tiny pcs that are all the rage right now. Having a pocket computer to rock has its place, and it’s a good place. You want to be able to hop on, do some work, and jump off quickly. The tiny pc works for that, and Its a good tool.
But if you are online more than an hour or two a day, you GOTTA Go Big. You need 2 monitors, with at least ONE being a 24″ widescreen. The cost–at tiger direct–can be as low as $189 for a 24″ monitor, and so it costs NOTHING to make this work for you…and you’ll be able to filter out stuff you don’t want.
My workflow: I have a 24″ imac with an auxillary 28″ monitor that I got from Tiger for $299.
I have Twitter and IM on my 28″ and I work on my 24″. No real reason for that, but the speakers, I like the imacs speakers. I turn the 28″ monitor off a lot, but I’m notified if someone IMs me. I don’t alays know (or care) who it was, but I get my work done, then I check in with Twitter/Facebook. Connect.
It’s so much faster this way. So much better, and so much cooler. I also use two browsers, and have Safari on my main monitor, and Firefox on my second monitor. I like firefox a smidge better than safari, but I use safari mostly because it’s less busy and I’m less likely to say, start checking the page rank of sites because I don’t havee
Monitor 1:
- Google Docs
- iWork
- iMovie
- ScreenFlow
- FinalCut
- Daylite
Monitor 2:
- FB
- Firefox
- Numbers
- Etc.
That’s the way I streamline work and can bring things in and out of how I want to do them.
