It's not exactly beautiful, but there's something impressive about this example of excess: four 24" Acer monitors in vertical orientation placed together into one mammoth 52" display. As someone who once loved dual 24" vertical displays (that's me in the upper left), I can't even imagine doubling the experience...
To get an idea how expansive this 52" Windows 7 setup as shown over at DeskTopped is, imagine 8 million pixels (and then some; each display is pumping out 1920×1080) and held all together in proximity using a $299 Ergotron Triple Display LX3 with an extra pivot. There's an extra fifth display in standard horizontal mode, but who needs that one if you've got 4 in portrait mode to wrap around you in near IMAX mode.
Here's Steve Fishman more modest 3 display array using the same Ergotron Triple Display LX3 and 3 Dell 1901 19" LCD screens, connected to a Mac Pro tower. Alongside his affinity for multiple monitors is an obvious love for a certain movie.
If you're interested in following their footsteps, be sure to check out this excellent review of the Ergotron Triple Display LX3 over at Publicspace, offering a detailed first hand experience with using one of these multi-monitor mounts.
(Images: Desktopped; Flickr member Steve Fishman licensed for use under Creative Commons; Publicspace)
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Comments (9)
I just ordered my first Dell 24" IPS monitor at 1920x1200. I'm really pumped for it. I'm hoping that if I save my pennies right I can get two more soon, but they are on the more expensive end of monitors. I've been wanting to do triple portrait screen gaming for a while now.
portrait mode is not so easy on your eyes...go to the store and test the screens before attempt to do so.
The monitor stand review you linked to is from 2006, and that model is no longer available.
@BebeDog - You have to have a monitor that supports portrait orientation. Most don't. At work all of our imaging station monitors are strictly in portrait mode. These are extremely expensive though.
How does a monitor not support portrait mode, its a video card setting?
@kamikazetedibear Many monitors have a nice vertical viewing angle, but not a good horizontal one. When you flip to portrait the bad horizontal viewing angle becomes your vertical, and we shift up and down when at the computer much more than we do left or right.
I think this is what Jay Ace and BebeDog are saying, or at least I hope so since that's really the only logical explanation. Well . . . that or automatically changing the setting when flipping the monitor (higher end monitors do this).
I had a monitor that supports pivot (you can turn the screen to portrait mode), but it offered bad horizontal viewing, so suggesting you see it in person before purchase.
The problems you are talking about were caused by using a TFT panel. An IPS panel, like advertrising is buying, will look -exactly- the same in either landscape of portrait mode.
And although TFTs start a lot cheaper than IPS, you can get expensive TFT panels and relatively cheap IPS. So just buying an expensive monitor will not guarantee it will look good in portrait, you have to read the specs.
That should read TN as in 'twisted nematic' not TFT. Acronym fail on my part.