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Re: Travelling with 24” Monitors

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Post by dheera »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #186
4cao wrote: post #35

Well, congratulations on the whole setup. It seems you planned everything down to the last detail and it worked out well. However, if I were you, I would have asked myself: (1) do I really need 3 monitors, (2) if yes, can I just rent them wherever I'm headed, (3) if no, can I just substitute them with a larger UHD TV, which seem to be quite cheap these days (buy one and resell later). In fact, if you are staying at a…

> (2) if yes, can I just rent them wherever I'm headed, Sounds like there's a very boring but likely profitable business waiting to be spawned here. The fact that there isn't an obvious choice for renting electronic goods for digital nomads on the go is a pretty big flag.

They exist and they are horribly expensive. Last time I was setting up a recruiting booth and it was cheaper to buy a display from Walmart than it was to rent one. And I was able to return it to Walmart at the end, too.

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Post by WalterBright »

WalterBright wrote: post #114
rsync wrote: post #28

In mid-2001, notably before 9/11, I had to quickly move a 4U Sun Netra server from San Jose to Washington DC. I just carried it on. It was enormous - 4U and full length - and weighed a ton. No packaging, no box - just carrying a huge server down the aisle of the plane ...

> before 9/11 At Aph where I worked in the 1970's, the airport people freaked out over my colleagues carrying a briefcase filled with electronic circuitry on the plane. Aph made the prototypes for Mattel's handheld LED games. The prototype was a custom wirewrapped single board computer about 8*11 inches, with power supply and a rigged up game keyboard. It was all conveniently mounted in a hard shell briefcase. He'd h…

Note that there was no essential distinction between the single board computers we were designing and building, and an Apple II. We coulda been billionaires! :-/ I even made one that generated a 24*80 display on any CRT monitor.

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Post by b3b0p »

christkv wrote: post #164

For travel I always brought one of these as us zenscreen https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-ZenScreen-MB16AC-Portable-Monito... they are powered off the USB.

This is what I plan to do. I am trying to patiently wait for the Asus ROG version. It appears to have been delayed and there are 2 versions. One with a tripod and one with a typical iPad/tablet stand built into the cover. I'm mostly wanting it for console gaming because I don't want to get a TV or put another monitor on my desk. I also live in a small studio apartment that I can only fit my desk and bed in. This can be used on my desk or sitting in my bed even and will just slip right into my backpack if I wanted.

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Post by thijsvandien »

lonelappde wrote: post #187
Razengan wrote: post #167

I've travelled with a single 27" iMac, which wasn't much of a problem, but it's a shame that Apple removed the "Target Display" mode [0] from the newer 5K/Retina iMacs. What the hell? That would have been perfect, to have a lighter MacBook or even the newer USB-C iPad Pro for outdoors, with the 27" at the hotel, without having to sync data before working on the bigger screen. Or to host a visitor's Mac. But no, now y…

To me it seems easier to buy a monitor at my destination and give it away than to deal with traveling with and risking damage to a 27" iMac.

If you're serious about taking your iMac to places, look into a tailored flight case. I used to own one from theflightcasecompany.com (no affiliation). Apple staff gave me envious looks when I brought in my machine for service in that. Although I personally wasn't interested in keeping my iMac (mid 2011) after experiencing how flawed the design was, I know the person I sold the case to had—or has?—been happily using it for years.

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Post by frosted-flakes »

gertlex wrote: post #130
andybak wrote: post #64

Because of my weird comfort and focus habits I've forced myself to get used to small screens. I hate having more than one task visible at any one moment so all my apps are running full-screen anyway. I've got very used to the various short-cuts for switching apps. I use Windows and MacOS and avoid all the full-screen functionality in MacOS (never managed to really get my head round it). I've got a 13" Macbook Air (20…

Does the difference in alt-tab behavior between Windows and MacOS (with alt-` too) slow you down at all? I might venture to guess no, since your workflow sounds like largely single-window-per-program.

I used to regularly switch between Windows and MacOS when I was in college and found that if I used the same keyboard I'd frequently go for the wrong keys (I didn't like the college keyboards so would bring one from home). Interestingly, using different keyboards for Windows and MacOS solved that problem.

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

codetrotter wrote: post #48
codingdave wrote: post #14

I used to code with that type of setup, with multiple large monitors. But a few months back, I switched to a single 43" UHD TV instead. I get more screen real estate that I did before, have fewer cables to deal with, and have less of a mental paradigm shift when I do travel and shrink down to just one laptop screen. As soon as someone invents a way to fold or roll up a 40+ inch screen, I'll buy it.

Back in January of 2019 I bought a 55" UHD TV that I used as my main monitor for a few months. Ultimately, I found that 55" was too big for me relative to the distance that I was sitting from the screen. Currently I am back to using a 27" PC monitor with 2560x1440 resolution. I use this same monitor both when I use my desktop computer and when I use my laptop. In the latter case I have the additional monitor of the l…

I have a Samsung 55" Curved TV that I use as a monitor (that frustratingly they just stopped selling) which addresses many of these issues.

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Post by chrischen »

varenc wrote: post #124
georgewsinger wrote: post #109

Working in VR allows you to travel with an infinite number of monitors, of any size you prefer. For example here is what it's like to work in a Linux VR Desktop on the HTC Vive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWLuwG91HnI The problem is that plug-in headsets like the Vive are not very portable. The next evolution of something like this is to put the Linux VR Desktop on a standalone headset. If anyone is interested in…

In terms of pixel count, isn’t the Vive only a 1080x1200 monitor? (per eye). I’d like more information density without having to move my neck around.

Yes but you can't physically look at and process all the independent monitors anyways. So you have one physical monitor addressing n-virtual monitors.

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Post by lvturner »

Uptrenda wrote: post #185

I'd personally ditch the monitors and go with (however many) "pocket projectors" then just project them onto a wall or something. Some of these projectors screw into light bulb sockets so you don't even need to worry about a mounting system. There's also a company that was trying to make monitors that could be folded and that was all just based on fabric that expanded as a projection surface. If they ever shipped - t…

That's actually a really good idea, you could couple them with some frosted (plexi?) glass to get a "screen"

I think this warrants more investigation!!

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Post by virtualwhys »

Creative solution, nicely done.

For 15 years I traveled with some flavor of 23"/24" monitor, putting it into my checked bag, and paying that checked bag fee over and over and over (probably $5K USD over the years).

This year I scrapped the big monitor setup and got an ultra lightweight 16" USB-C powered monitor along with a Dell Precision 5540.

Now I just stuff everything into an REI Trail pack (40L) and walk on the plane, it's beautiful. Pack weight is around 7KG, which works for most airlines in the world.

No longer muling around tons of gear is wonderful. Not sure what I was thinking, the extra screen real estate isn't that important to my work, two screens about 16" is enough.

Here's the 16" external monitor [1], out of stock presently, but can vouch for it, great addition to the toolbox.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WJJMV48/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

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