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Doing a web seminar session yesterday I knew I wanted a second machine available. Partly as an HA failover backup (just in case), and partly to act as a view of what the other participants were seeing – which I can’t see on the system I’m driving a presentation from. Though as I cabled everything together, it did start to look a little silly. Or like a set from a bad TV show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Five
Five screens, one desk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But I did actually find a use for just about all of the panels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The secondary system had the live seminar contents, along with the text-based chat screen so I could see when people raised questions. And I had some written notes associated with the presentations that I could scroll through as the event progressed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The primary system had one panel with the full-screen presentation, another panel with a preview of the next slide, and a further panel with all my other activities including a chat window where I could type private notes to my co-presenter if necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could I have managed with fewer screens? Probably, but having all that space did make it easy to manage and have the windows and fonts expanded large enough so I didn’t have to peer hard at small text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve now moved the 2nd laptop next to the big TV so I can use it to show the county championship cricket games<\/a> available only via live streaming services. But it can brought back to the desk if needed for another web conference.<\/p>\n

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