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To: elepet who wrote (790)	11/15/2000 10:51:52 PM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 1541

When I set the machine up, I tore a monitor off my twin-monitored Mac and a monitor off my Gateway. Now, the way Dual monitors should work, there would be a primary and a secondary. All applications Open in the Primary and then once you "set" them in one or the other they stay there. However with this the screens cross. A simple example may be if I perform a download. Now if you have ever used a Macintosh with a Dual Monitor setup since 1995 the screen pop-up comes on the Primary monitor. The way Win2K works the pop-up is divided between the two monitors. Unacceptable. So let us say I am checking a Tradestation Quote to the right side of my left hand monitor. To do this I left click on the price bar and a pop-up shows the pertinent data. This pop-up window is half in the left screen, half in the right screen. Dell Tech Support insisted....insisted!!.... that it was because I was not using the standard configuration. So, I paid $899 apiece for two 15 inch Flat Screens (originally a part of the machine's configuration, commerce.us.dell.com ) and it still does the same thing. This machine cannot do what my Macintosh could do in 1995. The problem is no software is written for the Mac so we are stuck with the PC version which is inferior. The only answer appears to be Linux. When all is said and done I do have a sweet looking machine. But functionally speaking it's a piece of crap. If I was a Buyer for a business I'd be lucky to have my job after migrating to a Dell with Win2K on it.