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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bodhi" data-source="post: 3870511" data-attributes="member: 19770">I'm using a Dell E207WVP LCD (1680x1050) as my primary monitor, with a Compaq P110 CRT (1600x1200) as my secondary screen (positioned to the left of my primary). I use the LCD as my primary even with the slightly lower resolution because it's significantly brighter and clearer than the ~7 year old CRT. Just a couple minor annoyances so far.First, wallpaper. If you've got two identical monitors (at least in terms of resolution), then you can easily have the same backdrop repeated on each screen. Or, if they're at the same height as well, you can have one extra-long image (eg 3200x1200) spanning both. But if they differ, you'd have to do a lot of tweaking to fit things. But then I found <a href="http://www.binaryfortress.com/displayfusion/" target="_blank">DisplayFusion</a> via a link from <a href="http://www.lifehacker.com" target="_blank">lifehacker</a>, which makes it all easy.Second, certain video apps won't display properly on the secondary monitor. I open the player window on the primary, and playback is fine; I move it to the secondary, and the video portion of the window is black. There's probably some app or driver tweaking that would make it work, but for me it's minor enough that I haven't put any real effort into it.As for what you should get, my default position is to get the biggest and best that fits comfortably into your budget, unless you have a specific reason for getting a smaller screen (like, say, the hutch it needs to fit into).</blockquote>

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