Ex-Calif
Well-known member
At work I had 3 screens. The 15 inch laptop and twin 19 inch Panasonics. I duplicated this after retirement, hardly ever used the 3rd screen so simplified to the 15 inch laptop and a 19 inch Panasonic.
The most common use for 2 screens for me is to stream tv or news while I am typing up junk to you guys or watching Formula 1 on one screen and live track timing data on the second screen.
The Dell inspiron I have has a few failed keys on the keyboard so I added a wired keyboard a while back. I am waiting for something real to fail on it as it's about time. I keep 99% of all my stuff on drop box and mirror the onboarddrive to both drop box and backup to a 2tb external drive about once a month.
I will look for the cheapest laptop with at least a 1Tb HDD. Almost all of them are using the cloud now which is terrible.
I have also found the Win11 split screen to be useful at times but a bigger screen would be needed to use it regularly.
The most common use for 2 screens for me is to stream tv or news while I am typing up junk to you guys or watching Formula 1 on one screen and live track timing data on the second screen.
The Dell inspiron I have has a few failed keys on the keyboard so I added a wired keyboard a while back. I am waiting for something real to fail on it as it's about time. I keep 99% of all my stuff on drop box and mirror the onboarddrive to both drop box and backup to a 2tb external drive about once a month.
I will look for the cheapest laptop with at least a 1Tb HDD. Almost all of them are using the cloud now which is terrible.
I have also found the Win11 split screen to be useful at times but a bigger screen would be needed to use it regularly.