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I think that rather depends on what you want to use the monitor for.
At work in 2010 I had a 21" for windows dev work with a 10" for email and messages only.
When I work now I'm constrained to a 17" 4:3 for compatibility with the robotic interfaces and embedded systems we build.
At home, I don't use multiple monitors, I use multiple PC's. Thus my media centre, which I use for television, music, video, blogging, writing novels and fb'ing, is piped through a lower cost 40" television with ample cross-room detail, such as four page simultaneous word processing, using a wifi keyboard and mouse from my easy chair.
On the table beside me I often also fire up a middling Laptop with a TB drive and Core 2 Duo, which I use for actual video processing and storage. I also use this for detail work such as Gimp, while I can do Monodevelop on either.
Also all my boxes are wireless, including my (exiled) Windows 7 machine in the kitchen, which I use with a 22" for MS-specific work tasks. The rest are Ubuntu, save for the Win 8.1 redundant desktop I'm prepping for sale. Incidentally, I've found VS2008 works well with 8.1, although SQL Server 2005 complains at installation.
Bottom line, to give your eyes a rest use a big, single monitor, and you don't necessarily have to shell out for a monitor when TV's come with 2 or 3 hdmi ports which you can connect to a reasonable video card and which cost £300 for 40".
The first 100,000 years were the worst; except for the second 100,000 years.
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for at home?
I got a 60" HDTV on the wall (the usual landscape).
And a regular size portrait monitor at my piano/programming desk.
98 lines of text on that guy.
But then, I had to get divorced to get it.
So there's that 
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I have 3 monitors and I cannot imagine going back to 1 or even 2. They're especially useful for doing peer code reviews, since I have the code up on one screen, the requirements up on another and the window for entering review comments on the last one.
At work I always have between 10 and 20 applications running at once and spreading them out over multiple screens is a great way to stay sane
I heard that there was a study done that showed a 20% productivity improvement in going from 2 to 3 monitors. However, I think that very much depends on what work you do and how you personally work.
I don't think that 4 monitors would be much of a help to me but I haven't tried it out so maybe it would be even better than 3!
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Read this from a software development shop...
http://tiamat.tsotech.com/4k-is-for-programmers
Clinton Gallagher
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I have two 27" screens plus the laptop screen. That's usually enough but sometimes I think about adding another one.
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I use 2 monitors at least, one for development/debbuging and one for running whatever I'm developing. When in support mode, usually I have the questions in one monitor and the answers in another. I would like to add another monitor, but I doubt my laptop can handle it.
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I'm a professional games coder and I used to have two large monitors, but I rarely used the second. Now I just use a high-end laptop with a 1920x1080 screen which really is good enough.
Honestly, clicking on the taskbar really is just about as simple as moving your eyeballs (do try it). Don't bother wasting your money or your desk space with more than one monitor.
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I have a boss with 2x 30" monitors, it's pretty impressive, but I don't know if it's optimal.
My personal best setup was 4 monitors in a 2x2 configuration. However, I don't feel like this is "optimal" either.
My personal ideal would be a large central screen with 4 "surrounding" screens that are a step smaller. The smaller screens would be useful for various production dashboards and build dashboards as well as pulling up docs.
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Here is a company's web site that allows you to link multiple monitors to your computer:
"http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/products/gxm/th2go/displayport"
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I have two 19" 1440x900 LCDs, both landscape, and would like to add a third. Bigger monitors can be nice, but I'd rather have the physically segregated visual space.
As to whether that third monitor would be landscape or portrait, I'm agnostic. But if I had a FOURTH, I'd probably put portraits on the left and right (browser, Outlook, and Acrobat/Word) and two landscapes in the center.
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Then why not brew your own?
All you need is a Rasberry Pi and some wood, a battery, and... then: PiPad[^]
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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And, as a bonus, works as a weapon in the event of robbery, home invasion, or attack by a lunatic bent on seizing your wooden prize.
Holy crap that thing is thick
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Ah! A fondleslab for the Zombie Apocalypse! 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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I can't imagine doing any more than playing with that thing!
No thanks, I'll stick with my Surface Pro and Surface Pro2.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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There is something...cute...about sticking modern electronics inside a wooden case. The problem is that wood is a terrible heat conductor, so how is he going to get rid of the hot air trapped inside? Perhaps all the space inside helps or it can somehow dissipate through that carbon fiber sheet (I actually have no idea).
BTW, did you notice the brass hinges?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Sometimes the downside of being a consultant is they *know* you have no life.
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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You mean I can go outside and not work? There is life away from my desk?
So yes, my wife is at work this morning and I'm at my desk plugging away at one of my projects. I'm also mostly a consultant so if I don't have a customer project, I'm working on one of my products.
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yeah, I get paid, so I work But I do have a cabin and retirement to fund
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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Ron Beyer wrote: I'm working on one of my products.
Ditto here and I don't even have a job, but I do have a lot of various hobbies and interests to keep me busy most all the time.
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Hazards of the trade.
4:30 call on Friday: "We need that new feature first thing Monday morning, okay?" 
Software Zen: delete this;
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I'm finishing the last chapter on my "From Imperative to Functional Programming" e-book. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Marc
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Hmm. I could have helped you with your book. My management always thinks it's imperative that my programming is functional yesterday.
Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week. Try the veal, it's to die for.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: My management always thinks it's imperative that my programming is functional yesterday.
Excellent - if you don't mind, I'll put that quote in the introduction, with due credit of course!
Marc
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Feel free. I don't think I've ever been cited before, other than by the local highway patrol.
Software Zen: delete this;
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