I use an external 1920x1080 as my primary along with external keyboard/mouse.
Using the laptop's 1366x768 as extra screen space almost feels forced and annoying.
Are there smarter ways to use the 1366x768 laptop display? For example to permanently show emails, FB messages, news, programming documentation?
Watch performance with your tool of choice like task manager
>>53931526
Don't have a second monitor just for the sake of having a second monitor. Statusbars, feeds etc that serve no immediate purpose are simply distractions. If you find yourself in need of a particular thing, then by all means use it and see if it makes your workflow more efficient, but adding random junk just for the sake of not letting monitor space go to waste is doing yourself a disservice.
>Minecraft
How embarrassing
>>53931663
This.
I intentionally went from two monitors to one.
Two monitors is just ADD-inducing if you don't have a specific purpose for it.
>>53931663
This.
Don't try to make a use for it. Use it if you have a use.
>>53931526
Porn.
>>53932240
>>53932261
These.
It depends of the task you are doing.
For example, if I'm doing homework, I got one screen for my notes / problems and the other for Maple / Matlab / Excel.
If I'm only browsing /g/, the second monitor is mostly useless, I usually put my music player on the second screen.
i use my second monitor for writing essays and shit and also for playing and watching a stream or show at the same time
>>53931663
Thiss, i have two monitors. I turn off the extra one whenever i don't need it.
Anyone run with their lid closed? My chinkpad gets super dusty even though I hardly use the screen on it, but I'm concerned about it venting heat out of the keyboard and onto the display.
>not a 40 inch 4k tv at 60hz as monitor
>not having insane screen estate
fucking poorfags man
>>53931663
Good advice.
use it to browse
>>53933275
I'm running a closed thinkpad and that works fine. If you have a macbook you shouldn't run it closed. The vents in the back of the macbook are physically closed when the lid is closed, so running it closed will make the cooling less efficient which will impact performance.
>>53933275
I run my dankpad closed in a dock all the time. My keyboard doesnt become noticeably hot unless im running in the 90s.
>>53934512
browser #112?
>>53931526
>For example to permanently show emails, FB messages, news, programming documentation
you just answered your own question, bimbo
Reference screen for XYZ.
Wiki for game.
pdfs/doc sites for programming.
etc
Or Youtube/stream if that's your thing for background noise
not hard m8.
>>53931663
Makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your input.
