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Poll: Do you use two monitors to work?
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Adnan Özdemir
Adnan Özdemir  Identity Verified
Turchia
Local time: 11:28
Membro (2007)
Da Tedesco a Turco
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No. Only 1 Feb 7, 2011

Only 1 monitor, 21 inch wide LCD screen-Desktop PC.


Anadolu'dan selamlar
Saludos desde Anatolia


 
Mary Worby
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Regno Unito
Local time: 08:28
Membro
Da Tedesco a Inglese
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Just one Feb 7, 2011

A laptop perched on my knee!

 
Thayenga
Thayenga  Identity Verified
Germania
Local time: 09:28
Membro (2009)
Da Inglese a Tedesco
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One...at a time Feb 7, 2011

Either the desktop monitor or the laptop.

 
Michael Harris
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Germania
Local time: 09:28
Membro (2006)
Da Tedesco a Inglese
2 big ones Feb 7, 2011

Good when you have to use reference material and saves the annoying switching with one screen

 
Tineke Van Beukering
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Australia
Local time: 18:28
Da Olandese a Inglese
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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!

 
Melanie Nassar
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Stati Uniti
Local time: 10:28
Da Tedesco a Inglese
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just one Feb 7, 2011

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.

 
Livia D'Ettorre
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Spagna
Local time: 09:28
Da Inglese a Italiano
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Just one Feb 7, 2011

I just use my laptop, without an additional monitor.

 
Anton Konashenok
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Repubblica Ceca
Local time: 09:28
Da Francese a Inglese
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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.

 
neilmac
neilmac
Spagna
Local time: 09:28
Da Spagnolo a Inglese
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No Feb 7, 2011

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?


 
Matthew Garland
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Local time: 09:28
Da Francese a Inglese
Just the one Feb 7, 2011

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


 
Chun Un
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Macao
Membro (2007)
Da Inglese a Cinese
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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]


 
Catherine GUILLIAUMET
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Local time: 09:28
Da Inglese a Francese
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In memoriam
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


 
Evans (X)
Evans (X)
Local time: 08:28
Da Spagnolo a Inglese
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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
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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.
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Nigel Greenwood (X)
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Spagna
Local time: 09:28
Da Spagnolo a Inglese
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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,

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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]
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