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Re: Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro

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Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> writes:
> Looking at the iPad mini sitting next to my monitor I agree.  Earlier
> today I was using it to read a tutorial while doing the exercises on
> the main monitor.  The IDE in question takes up too much room on the
> monitor to get a decently sized PDF or eBook window alongside it.  A
> second monitor would be too big, a large tablet would fit nicely.

When I started in my current job a little over two years ago, they gave
me dual 27" monitors.  I couldn't understand why I would ever need two
monitors, much less figure out how to use them effectively.  A few
months later, I bought a second monitor for my home computer because I
could no longer understand how I had ever managed to get anything done
with only one.

Also, I know spring is coming when I have to turn down the brightness to
keep the temperature in my office at a tolerable level...

As I was writing this, I suddenly rememberd that this isn't the first
time I've had two monitors - around 20 years ago, I had a debugger
(Borland TurboDebugger) that could display watched variables etc. on the
secondary display while my program ran full-screen on the main display.
This was only possible because the two adapters used different memory
regions - the Hercules adapter ran in monochrome text mode at 0xb0000
while the VGA adapter ran in either color text mode or graphics mode,
both at 0xb8000.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@des.no

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Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-02 11:13 +0000
  Re:Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-04 19:59 +0000
    Re: Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-04-04 23:26 +0200
      Re: Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no> - 2014-04-06 21:57 +0200
        Re: Super Tablet: review of the Galaxy Note Pro RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-06 20:48 +0000

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