For years at work we have had every employee running with dual monitors. First it was 15" CRT monitors, then it went to 17" monitors. After awhile, we graduated to 19" LCD monitors and this year, we upgraded most of our staff to dual 20" or 22" LCD monitors. We've found that it improves productivity a great deal as so many of the tasks folks need to do nowadays require the use of multiple systems. For example, our customer support folks might be logged into our CRM on one screen and a customer's computer via WebEx on the other. Accounting might have the accounting system open on one screen plus an Excel spreadsheet on the other. And for developers, well, they love screen real estate.
In any case, I also have been running a similar setup at home for a while now. More recently, I caught a great deal on woot for some de-labled HP 24" LCDs. They run at a very impressive 1900 x 1200 resolution and I can fit all kinds of stuff on there at once. But of course, there's a problem in a paradise. (Isn't that always the case?) Two 24" monitors dominate your desk. I mean it eats up all the space.
Nonetheless, I like having my cake and eating it too, so I went ahead and rotated them vertically. So, technically they are running at 1200 x 1900. And I have some very tall monitors on my desk. However, I still get to keep my screen real-estate and now I get some desk back, plus access to all the cubbyholes behind the monitors as I have a roll-top desk. We'll just have to see how this configuration holds up, but so far, so good.
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