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I was just told that I get to go to a client site for two days a week minimum. My biggest objection is not having dual monitors. How fantastic would it be if there was a laptop that had dual monitors built in. Has anybody ever heard of one, cause I would like to make it required equipment before I go there to work 
Hogan
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Get a docking station and two monitors (client may have spare screens). or try to find Lenovo W700ds[^] somewhere.
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That is exactly what I'm talking about! Now if it was only affordable. Either way, I just put in a purchase request for one. I know the response, but its worth asking 
Hogan
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I forgot to mention that It is a very old model (3-4 years old, I remembered because it is the only dual screen laptop), I don't think it's available for purchase now.
Also even if you can find one, in the same price you can get a docking station, dual 24" monitor and a whole new laptop.
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You can plug a monitor into the video port of your laptop and use both the screen on your laptop as well as the external one.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I do that.... it works fine.... the only problem is that the laptop screen is 15" and the external one is 19"....
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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I didn't say it was optimal - I wanted to point out that technically, you don't need to spend money on a docking station.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I remember reading about Lenovo coming up with something like that a while back. I went searching for it and lo and behold, it really does exist! ThinkPad W700ds[^]
They also have a pretty wicked multi-monitor setup with their docking stations, too: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=MIGR-76617[^]
** Update **
Okay, I didn't see that anyone else had responded, and as soon as I posted it showed me the first response was the same one I was thinking. Great minds, and all that jazz
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Morgan Estes wrote: it really does exist! ThinkPad W700ds[^]
WOW! It's got a non-fondleable fondle-slab on the side!
And it's got Vista, too!
Verily, we have found the Holy Grail!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You had me at "fondle Vista". 
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Another option: You can hook up as many VGA -> USB adapters as you have USB ports. I'm running 3 monitors off of my Surface Pro, and with USB3, I see no slowdown whatsoever.
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snorkie wrote: How fantastic would it be if there was a laptop that had dual monitors built in
Hwa?
It would hardly be a laptop, then.
I'm on a laptop now, with an umpty-tum inch monitor plugged into it -- that's "dual", even if the screens are different sizes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Draw a line down the middle of your screen. You now have two monitors. Enjoy :P
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I appreciate all the feedback, but I wanted something portable. I don't want to walk into a client's office with my laptop bag and a monitor under my arm...
Hogan
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...to develop a web site as large as what the Obamacare website apparently needs to be, and expect that web site to be a) performant, and b) secure (even reasonably so).
When you couple all of that with a wholly unsustainable hardware infrastructure, you end up with what amounts to a pile of shit.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: When you couple all of that with a wholly unsustainable hardware infrastructure, you end up with what amounts to a pile of shit.
Well when you start with sh*t it's hard to end up with anything else.
Coincidentally just got this in email;
Top Ten Indicators Your Employer Has Changed To The Obamacare Health Care Plan.
(10) Your annual breast exam is done at Hooters.
(9) Directions to your doctor's office include "Take a left when you enter the trailer park."
(8) The tongue depressors taste faintly of Fudgesicles.
(7) The only proctologist in the plan is "Gus" from Roto-Rooter.
(6) The only item listed under Preventative Care Coverage is "an apple a day."
(5) Your primary care physician is wearing the pants you gave to Goodwill last month.
(4) The statement, "The patient is responsible for 200% of out-of-network charges," is not a typographical error.
(3) The only expense covered 100% is..."Embalming."
(2) Your Prozac comes in different colors with little M's on them.
(1) You ask for Viagra and they give you a Popsicle stick and duct tape.
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Not to mention the dozens, if not hundreds, of disparate and incompatible governmental and private sector systems the thing has to talk to. I'd be willing to bet there's an AnthemBlueCrossBlueShieldGatewayFactoryShellInterface in there somewhere.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It's not impossible - I bet Farcebook has a larger footprint and remains performant (though not too secure, I think)
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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Correct to a point. But remember that FB doesn't actually have much complexity. Scrap that, it has no complexity.
speramus in juniperus
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Well. FB have games, and photo processing and all sorts of other stuff (So I understand - not a FB fan meself) and well over one billion active users.
Thats more than three times the entire US population.
And I would guess the activity on FB is far heavier than the (proposed) obamacare thingo.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Thats more than three times the entire US population.
Unless you count our illegal aliens...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's what I've been thinking all along, but political emotions are running high over this, so intelligent discussion is out the window.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done.
CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland).
I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it.
I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
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I thought that went out of style?
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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