Imagine my joy when the company owner decided (for reasons that I care not to divulge here) to swap his year old MacBook Pro for my nearly two year old Dell X1! I hadn’t been using the Dell since I also had a year old MacBook (white) and although I was giving up 20GB of storage to upgrade from the MB to the MBP I jumped at the offer.
54 minutes after firing up Migration Assistant I was in business and loving the MBP goodness NOTE: I had just upgraded the MBP for the owner from Tiger to Leopard by means of a fresh install. So there wasn’t a lot of cruft on the drive that needed cleaning up once I deleted his user account.
All was well until I got around to hooking the MBP up to my second display. I am in the habit of using my ViewSonic VX715 for my work screen since it sits above my laptop, and leaving social apps like Adium, NatsuLion, and Skype open on the laptop display. However, I was no longer able to drag Safari, TextMate, etc. to the upper display although I could drag all the social apps there. Bizarre!
I posted this “annoyance” on Twitter and then the solution came to me immediately. All my “work” apps were too wide to fit the VX715′s default resolution of 1024X768. DOH! Adjusting the monitor’s resolution via System preferences freed my apps to move wherever I choose. I am a bit annoyed though that OS X apparently does not permit “over-sized” app windows move between displays since it is certainly possible to make an app window wider than any single screen. Nonetheless, mystery solved.