With the two monitors you can have Sun's VirtualBox running a different 
OS on one of the monitors
Or you can have two completly different app running (datasheet and MPLAB)

I would say that once you try it, you will never go back to a single monitor

Stefano



William "Chops" Westfield ha scritto:
> On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:46 PM, Matthew Mucker wrote:
> 
>> And I do, of course, use the second monitor for reference docs while  
>> I do my
>> coding on the first monitor.
> 
> So what kind of non-standard SW is there for managing multiple  
> monitors (Mac OR PC.)  I've tried them a couple of times and find it  
> really obnoxious to have "the desktop" extended across monitors that  
> have different sizes and aren't actually next to each other (and "not  
> good" even when they are "tiled.")  What I'd like is some utility that  
> would allow me to throw up certain pages (windows of running apps, I  
> guess) onto the second monitor where it would stay, untouchable, till  
> I do something else special to get rid of it.   Meanwhile, the "main"  
> monitor would get all the normal behavior, all the menus, and all the  
> mouse pointers...
> 
> But I've never had enough motivation to try to track down third party  
> multi-monitor apps that might be useful.  Does anyone have suggestions?
> 
> BillW
> 
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