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Poll: Do you use two monitors to work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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Adnan Özdemir 
Türkiye
Local time: 23:12
Member (2007)
German to Turkish
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Only 1 monitor, 21 inch wide LCD screen-Desktop PC.
Anadolu'dan selamlar
Saludos desde Anatolia
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Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:12
German to English
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A laptop perched on my knee!
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Thayenga
Germany
Local time: 22:12
Member (2009)
English to German
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| One...at a time | Feb 7, 2011 |
Either the desktop monitor or the laptop.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 22:12
Member (2006)
German to English
Good when you have to use reference material and saves the annoying switching with one screen
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| Just one - but a large one! | Feb 7, 2011 |
Just one monitor - but a large one which enables me to open documents side by side so there's no need for a 2nd monitor. Love it!
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Melanie Nassar
United States
Local time: 23:12
German to English
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I used to print out all the source documents that came in scanned or pdf format for example, and work on a laptop. Sometimes I would show the source text on a desktop monitor for proofreading. Now I have a 21" monitor for my new Mac mini and can easily show two full-page texts side by side on one monitor. Saves a lot of neck work, not to mention the paper. My trusty, 6-year-old iBook has been relegated to "fun" status, and travel of course.
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I just use my laptop, without an additional monitor.
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| Sometimes 1, sometimes 2 | Feb 7, 2011 |
I haven't had a desktop computer in years, but do sometimes connect a big external monitor to my notebook. This second monitor is installed in a portrait orientation (allowing me to see a full page of text) and is not to the side of the laptop but rather 0.5 m behind and slightly above it. This arrangement is quite comfortable to work with, and having to refocus your eyes back and forth when switching between the two screens gives you a fair amount of eye exercise.
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neilmac
Spain
Local time: 22:12
Spanish to English
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Not usually. I do have the facility, just in case I ever need to use it, but this doesn't usually happen since I try to get all my work sent to me in Word format.
Didn't this question come up before?
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Morning all,
I just use the one screen: 18" laptop screen with both documents side to side is fine (though it means the laptop is a little heavier!). And using Wordfast removes the need for side-by-side docs most of the time anyway...
Bon courage tlm,
Matt
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Chun Un
Macau
Member (2007)
English to Chinese
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| Actually two desktop computers... | Feb 7, 2011 |
one running Windows XP (painfully slow) for those Windows applications and another one running Ubuntu (delightfully fast) for everything else 
[Edited at 2011-02-07 09:30 GMT]
[Edited at 2011-02-07 09:32 GMT]
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| Two, occasionally | Feb 7, 2011 |
I use 2 screens (1 x17' + 1x21') particularly when working on PowerPoint. It allows me to keep and reproduce more easily the "aesthetic and graphical" aspect of the original in the much longer French translation.
I know that a lot of colleagues dislike working with PP, I don't. I must even say that I like it. It fulfills the "creative" part of my brain
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Evans (X)
Local time: 21:12
Spanish to English
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| two monitors rock! | Feb 7, 2011 |
Investing in a second monitor has revolutionised my work. I can have the text I am working on up on one screen and use the other for internet research. Or I can put my glossaries up on the second screen, or sometimes a full version of a text complete with pictures while I work on a word file. It's also extremely useful when revising.
I do work in the creative fields so tend not to be using CAT tools much. When I am away from my office and using a laptop, I really miss my second moni... See more Investing in a second monitor has revolutionised my work. I can have the text I am working on up on one screen and use the other for internet research. Or I can put my glossaries up on the second screen, or sometimes a full version of a text complete with pictures while I work on a word file. It's also extremely useful when revising.
I do work in the creative fields so tend not to be using CAT tools much. When I am away from my office and using a laptop, I really miss my second monitor. ▲ Collapse
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Nigel Greenwood (X)
Spain
Local time: 22:12
Spanish to English
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| 1 PC and 1 laptop | Feb 7, 2011 |
Similar to: Adnan Özdemir, (who wrote, and I quote: Only 1 monitor, 21 inch wide LCD screen-Desktop PC.) However I also have a laptop with my own glossaries open. That way I can use on-line dictionaries and the text I am working on in the PC and the rest in my laptop. There is also another laptop for receiving and sending e-mails. All are connected in my network and have Windows 7.
Best regards to all,
... See more Similar to: Adnan Özdemir, (who wrote, and I quote: Only 1 monitor, 21 inch wide LCD screen-Desktop PC.) However I also have a laptop with my own glossaries open. That way I can use on-line dictionaries and the text I am working on in the PC and the rest in my laptop. There is also another laptop for receiving and sending e-mails. All are connected in my network and have Windows 7.
Best regards to all,
Nigel.
[Edited at 2011-02-07 09:55 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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