A Better Monitor (Or a Second One)

If you have a tiny monitor, get a bigger one. With a larger monitor, you spend less time scrolling and rearranging windows and more time getting actual work done — which is a good thing, right?

The best thing about it is that most Macs let you use two monitors as though they were a single display. For example, my main computer setup includes two monitors: a 22‐inch Apple Cinema flat‐panel LCD display and an old‐fashioned CRT display, a 24‐inch NEC MultiSync. It's an awesome setup — one that I highly recommend. With two big monitors, I have the menu bar and Finder windows on the first monitor and document(s) that I'm working on displayed on the second. Or, when using a program such as Adobe Photoshop (which has lots of floating palettes), I can put the palettes on one monitor and documents I'm using on the other. And so on.