Improve Your Productivity with A Dual Screen

Expands Screen-Space For Laptops  

Laptops are great for convenience and portability, especially when traveling between home and work. Although, the more portable the laptop, the smaller the screen space will be. 

A significant drawback of using a laptop is its smaller monitor. Then there are also positioning difficulties, such as propping them up when on a desk but still staring down at the screen. 

Connecting your laptop to a monitor will allow you to significantly improve your user experience, making it work just like a regular desktop PC. You’ll have the option to either mirror your screen or use the laptop’s screen for certain activities while using the larger monitor for others.   

Easier Side-by-Side Comparisons 

Many daily tasks require viewing data in two different windows. You might have to edit and compare a finished design with the original instructions. Or you may have notes open that need to be included in a PowerPoint presentation you are working on. 

Setting up two windows on one screen side-by-side can sometimes be difficult and frustrating. You’ll have to resize the windows, and then you risk losing your configuration when maximizing the screen to scroll or clicking a menu item. 

Having two monitors lets you have the screen real estate you need to fully open both windows and have them side-by-side, enabling you to work more efficiently.

Additional Freedom For Video Calls  

Have you ever engaged in a Zoom or video call while screen sharing and suddenly needed to check an email, review notes, or open another website? It’s challenging to do so when everyone on the video call can see your screen. Before a meeting, we might turn off our alerts for our emails and other programs to ensure nothing confidential or distracting pops up. However, having a dual screen allows you to choose which screen you want to share during the video meeting. So, you can have your apps open on the screen that’s not being shared with anyone without worrying. This is a significant advantage if you need to check an email or send a quick message to someone during your time screen sharing. 

Cost-effective Productivity Booster   

Purchasing another monitor is a reasonably low investment when considering how much it typically is to acquire new technology. You can generally purchase a monitor for between $125 to $250. Then, since the average productivity boost of dual screens is 42%, that’s also a pretty sweet return on investment. 

Another benefit to adding a 2nd screen is there’s no big learning curve that will need to happen for this upgrade. Simply plug it in, and then the PC will automatically be set to see the additional screen, and voilà, it’s good to go! Users can then simply drag apps and documents from one screen to another as if they had one giant screen.