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Eight hours for work and eight for play, I should have mentioned 
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Dude, with that much play you'll go blind.
Somebody in an online forum wrote: INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.
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AspDotNetDev wrote: Dude, with that much play you'll go blind.
Oh so THAT'S why he needs 4 monitors... Don't give us this easier to develop with crap! 
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute
"...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave
"Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon
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Is that a pornoramic display
The only thing unpredictable about me is just how predictable I'm going to be.
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That's what parents everywhere say.
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Not to mention the negative impact on the ergonomics of his keyboard and mouse due to hairy palms.
Narf.
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I can see 16 hours ...
Light foreground on dark background.
I do it.
Regularly
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I'm running four monitors off of a Dell workstation. Do not remember what card it is using, just that it has one output and a cable that splits it into four. All four monitors are a different size. The standard issue here is one monitor. Coming from the military I have learned to improvise. I first stuck a video card in a PC that did not kill the video on the motherboard. That caused another guy to get a dual monitor card for his PC. When he left I borrowed his card for three. I did not expect them to approve this workstation, the gods must have been happy that day. I find it handy using the different sizes. The biggest one is where the IDE resides. The widescreen is rotated 90 degrees and is good for displaying text files.
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I find that 1200 lines of resolution is very useful. You may want to consider it if you can find suitable monitors.
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Rick York wrote: I find that 1200 lines of resolution is very useful. You may want to consider it if you can find suitable monitors.
I was using 1600x1200 at least ten years ago (on a CRT). The fact that 1200 lines is still uncommon is appalling to me.
I have dual 23" 1920x1080 monitors now (at work) and it's a little wide (it's too tall for my tastes to do portrait, which some do). 1920x1440 would have been nice... I DON'T WATCH MOVIES ON THESE THINGS.
But what I really want are monitors that have 300+ dpi. Sigh.
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I am so pissed that the needs of TV resolution took over the monitor world. I use 5 LCD panels with 1200 vertical pixels of resolution -- 2 at 1920*1200, and 3 at 1600*1200, and you'll pry them out my cold dead hands. Programmers need all the vertical resolution they can get, because more pixels means more code on display.
If I want to watch movies, I have a TV set for that. When I'm working, I want proper resolution, and don't give me this "full HD" crap. Trying to find a proper monitor these days is nearly impossible, and you have to pay a fortune for them.
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I'm running Dual GeForce 9400 GT
AND
3 24" Hanns G HW223D monitors.
Unless you're into crazy gaming, this setup is perfect for me and could support a 4th monitor! I develop client server desktop apps and end up running a virtual machine on the left and right and having my main machine in the middle. This allows me to debug and commit changes easily.
When I go home, I use a 10" Netbook to write papers on for school. Its all what you're used to. The netbook is perfect for writing papers, but I would not want to develop on it.
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So next year similar prices may reach our shores, after I recover from some workless weeks and the December break, and I can resume domination of the WordPress plugin market with a cool 3 monitor setup. 
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I think the Eyefinity only matters if you want them all to act as one giant monitor in some environment that doesn't natively do multi-monitor setups. Like a game, for instance. Windows doesn't care whether you have one AMD/ATI card with three outputs (as I have) or three separate cards all from different makers.
I do have three, and absolutely find it worthwhile. Two tips regarding such things:
1) *Nice* LCD's are not made with TN technology, which, alas, is what makes most of the cheap monitors cheap. Most LCD's are made with TN technology. But if you're going to do it right, make sure you're getting IPS or some other technology that allows for a wide field of view without color change. Some, but not all or even most, Dell monitors are actually "nice" by this definition (as are some from other makers, but so far I've wound up settling on Dells), and not all of them realize they should actually advertise this, so you have to look carefully to figure it out, or examine them in person. They've gotten a little better about horizontal movement, but try going to Best Buy and I bet you won't find a single monitor that maintains its colors when you move your head up and down. Thus you can eliminate every single model you find there after doing that. Because for monitors of any size, this means the pixels in front of your face are showing color differently than those at the top or bottom of the screen, which is important if you're close to it (at a desk). Even more important if you use it as a TV, like I do, where people might be sitting/lying on a couch and viewing from just about any angle. Maybe this doesn't matter to you, but I find it to be a pretty annoying trait when two people looking at the same monitor can't see the same thing, or you need to swing the monitor into the exact right position to see a picture well. Very important, too, if you are doing any color-essential work like video editing or graphical design.
2) Go check out this and other stands by this manufacturer:
http://www.amazon.com/Triple-LCD-Monitor-Stand-Monitors/dp/B0023ED22Y[^]
I have one, and it is very solid, and highly maneuverable, at something like $100 less than its competitors. I have no idea why most monitor stands cost so much, so this is a find. But do be aware that this particular one will work best either with one larger center monitor flanked by two smaller 4:3 monitors, or vice versa, unless you keep them all 21" or smaller. I have three 16:10 monitors, one 20.5" and two 21.5", and I find myself arranging them so the bevels are behind each other most of the time so that they can be pointed at me, which is workable but a slight annoyance. Also this stand allows for useful other possibilities. For instance, I have a couch opposite my desk, so when I'm at my desk, I can use all three, but if I or my wife wants to watch TV or a movie, I just swing one of them around in the opposite direction to point toward the couch, and start up Media Center or switch the input to the Blu-Ray player.
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ty sir . I seem to have h/w lust (ooooo, shiny) disease.
I confess that I will expense it as "equipment for development" but I do new MW3 to run well
Charlie Gilley
<italic>You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've been using three monitors at home for about 4 years now. I picked up two 19" (1280x1024) I-Inc monitors for cheap to complement my 23" Samsung (2048x1152). I love it. I have a fourth monitor (17") lying around that I've been thinking of hooking up, except I don't have the desk space for it .
At work I use two 22" (1680x1050) monitors. It's not the same, but two monitors suffice.
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I dont have nything that much serious still need to make an upgrade end of this year. Saw some awsome samsung LED 3D monitors and loved them .
My curent setup looks like this
Dev Faqtory 3 monitor setup
modified 2-Nov-11 9:17am.
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Check out MaxiVista.com[^] for a great way to use a laptop or any other physically close windows computer to augment the display on your main rig. I tend to have 2 direct attached and 1 on MaxiVista.
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There's no way you would regard my monitor setup as "serious" but it's ideal for me. I have a laptop (running at native 1280x800) and directly above its opened screen, a 17" monitor at 1280x1024. So the two screens form one continuous area 1280x1824. To the right of that I have a separate PC running an identical 17" monitor also at 1280x1024. I tend to develop on the laptop, and use the other machine for communications and general web browsing, plus admin. (I'm freelance so raise invoices etc on that box).
The 2-screen laptop setup works well, with typically VS2008 in the larger top screen and a browser (with the site I'm developing) in the lower (laptop) screen. When I occasionally need to view large amounts of code, I resize VS to fill BOTH screens and position the pane split at the physical "join" between monitors.
If you routinely work with, for example, procedures that extend beyond the height of a 1024-deep screen, you need to rethink your coding style. Similarly, if you're primarily testing websites on massive screens, you're ignoring how the majority of your users will perceive it. Personally, when working with larger monitors than this, or with 3 or more monitors, it's LESS convenient - more head movement is required, you can't take in the entire visual field in one go. With a 17" monitor at a "reasonable" resolution the default text sizes are comfortably readable (and these eyes are over half a century old) and I can easily assimilate everything on screen. I don't have to move the mouse miles to reach the corners of the screen and I don't have to move my head to see what's at the extremeties. What I DO do, though, is to physically shift slightly when moving between laptop and desktop (separate keyboards and mice) and that slight physical shift helps to shift mental focus from one task to another as well.
YMMV of course...
Derek TP
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Not sure about any new tech like Eyefinity until I've seen it in action, but I've been using dual DVI out into 2 1920x1200 displays for years. I also use Synergy to span the keyboard and mouse onto a laptop to the right and left for admin related tasks. It seems harder to find the 1200 vertical pixel displays than it should be... the trend seems to be for 1920x1080p, despite the fact that there's more screen real estate with the 1200!
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I got 4x1080p monitors, two horizontal, two vertical.
Verticals are for code (comparing two files with this is awesome) and browsing (the 1080 width is rarely a problem, but it happens). When you get to coding on vertical screens, it will hurt to go back.
One of the horizontal ones is for the palettes from whatever editor that supports placing them on another screen. It may also have a music player, IM, etc. The last one is for porn.
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I suggest you to move to a dedicated pc (even better a workstation or server with UPS and backup internet connection) for porn: what if the computer you're "working" on crashes?? you'll have to reboot and loose the porn, while you could COMPLETELY dedicate to porn while rebooting!!!!
If you have space, take a 50" Plasma and attach it to the wall over the 4 monitors: this way it will be easier to move your eyes from work to porn!!! 
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I congratulate your multitasking efficiency : We should hire more men like you.
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I'm using two 24" Samsungs (1920×1200  ) and, a few weeks ago, I've found an excellent software when I wanted to extend my taskbar to the second monitor: http://www.actualtools.com/multiplemonitors/
It's a bit pricey, I'm still on the trial version. But it's a much better solution than Eyefinity. AND you do't need an AMD card with their crappy drivers.
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