One Monitor or Two?

Hello
I am new here and have a question. I am buying a 24" iMac to use Logic on when a friend suggested two monitors. Can't I just open up two different windows instead? Also room is a consideration. If I have to buy another monitor, I buy go to a 20" iMac and a second 20" monitor due to space and cost. I am new to Logic as well. I have been using a Roland VS2480 but am moving towards the Apple iMac/Logic combination.
I plan on ordering shortly, so please give me your thoughts. One bigger 24" would be better for me, but two 20" could work as well.
Thanks
Shawn

definitely go for the 24".
Even if you decide to add monitors later, you'll have one main large area. bigger is better.
You can use screen sets to see what you want and L8 has some split screen functions built in.
that said, I prefer 3 monitors, one for arrange, one for midi editing/mixer and one for the VI and plugins....and a tv for QT video.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
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...with a WIRELESS (Bluetooth) keyboard and mouse...
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Recommendations for switching between two machines and one monitor

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I have a MacMini and a MacBook Air, both with Thunderbolt Display ports but I have one monitor. I'd like to switch between the two without having to unplug and plug the monitor back in every time. Any recommendations for some sort of switch or Thunderbolt hub would be greatly appreciated.
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I am a long time Mac user, but find the fairly recent Apple switch to thunderbolt for monitor input very frustrating.
For several years I have ran a Mid 2010 IMac 27" and input video from a Mac Mini running Boot Camp Windows 7 using Target Display Mode on the IMac.
This worked fine until I upgraded to a Late 2013 27" IMac and discovered that the IMac has moved to thunderbolt as the input for Target Display Mode. The new late 2013 27" IMac just will not display native Windows 7 or 8 from a Boot Camp Mac anymore.
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I have tried.
And there appears to be no way to get any Windows machine with DVI or Mini Display Port output to drive a late 2013 IMac in Target Display mode.
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Has anyone found a better solution to switching between OSX and native Windows on one monitor?
Thanks...

Hi William,
I had the same experience in December 2013 and contacted Apple about it. According to Apple it's an issue of Windows with Thunderbolt. Your older iMac from 2010 is using DisplayPort and not Thunderbolt for the Target Display Mode. Note that just the connector looks the same but it's still a different technology. Please further note that the response below does not apply for the new iMac 27" with the 5K display because this iMac does not support Target Display Mode at all, hence can't be used as external display. Of course you can still attach one or two external displays to the iMac 27" 5K.
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So, here is the important part of the official response from Apple:
"... The Thunderbolt controller in an iMac is running exclusively in host mode. As such it cannot emulate a device mode Thunderbolt display. Instead it implements a custom Target Display Mode protocol that shares video between two peer to peer machines running with both controllers running in host mode. The "client" side of the driver does not exist on Windows so windows cannot speak to the "server" half in the iMac. There are no plans to implement a client driver for Windows since there is no Thunderbolt SW stack available for Windows. The reason this used to work is that the older iMacs used DisplayPort for Target Display Mode. In this scenario the iMac was able to expose the panel in such a way that it looked exactly like a Display Port Device which Windows does have driver support for. ... "
Target Display Mode: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) - Apple Support

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The first one to prove this with a screen capture was jb510-LJ0JJQ in August 2009: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2207312#2207312
Eight months and three OS updates later the problem is still there and makes professional work with more than one monitor a nuisance.
Here's another actual example: A picture and its 100% identical copy showing different colors on one screen!
Here's how to repeat it – try this at home ;-)
1) In the finder make a copy of a rgb picture.
2) Open one of the two identical pics in photoshop.
3) Drag it to the other monitor.
When releasing the mouse button you may see the bug already: the colors will "switch".
4) To verify this go to system presets - monitors - and change the primary monitor (by dragging the menu bar to the other)
5) Now open the identical copy you made in step 1) and see the difference!
Here's a synopsis of suggested workarounds:
1) disable open GL (which seem to makes no difference on my setup)
2) click "desaturate monitor colors" but set desaturation to 0 (which prevents visual switching in step 3) (only if openGL is ON) but also leads to a wrong display in step 4+5
3) make the hardware calibrated monitor your default monitor and strictly avoid changes or dragging pics to the other monitor (which seems to be the only reliable method)
4) some guys even force both monitors to use the profile of their hardware-calibrated monitor (using color sync) to make sure they see what they should see on at least that one monitor. What a stone-age workaround for the the world's leading imaging program!
Considering that reliable colors in professional (=multi monitor) settings should be the most basic function of photoshop this mayor malfunction should be solved with CS5! Otherwise we might have to live with it for some more years...
Have Adobe and Apple realized this bug and on their agenda? Will it be gone with OS 10.6.3? Can anyone explain the reasons for this bad bug? Is there a "officially" recommended workaround?
Thanks, regards,
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There have been several threads dealing with this malfunction. But most faded out in silence or acceptance of the workarounds.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2207312#2207312
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/521483
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2272192#2272192
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/311761?start=0&tstart=0
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/618927?tstart=60
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/603992?tstart=90
http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=552977
http://www.hilfdirselbst.ch/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=368889?search_string=zwei%20monitor#368 889
But man, this is no minor bug! Consistent colors are the by far most important basic function of photoshop. If you cannot rely on the colors in photoshop you can as well use "Preview" and "Word" for print production ;-)
Carson, how did Apple react to your complaint? What do you mean with "they don't get it". Do they not see it? Or can't they get it right?
Shall we open a thread at apple forums to point out that it's not the problem of a single user?

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Computer - Mac Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 graphics card
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I'm wondering if it has something to do with my NVIDIA drivers on windows, because the mouse shenanigans seemed to start after this step in the Bootcamp installation process.
Any ideas for how to fix this?
Thanks very much.

Then google for Cirrus Logic Audio for Mac running Windows.
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