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[djdjohnson]

I'm running 4 at the office, and 6 at home. I love it!

[Mike921]

center landscape flanked by two portraits for me, like it a lot

[CaniblCat]

I run two monitors at my home office, but only for lack of physical space. I often wish I had 5 monitors, 4 in landscape and 1 in portrait.

[JeffHoward]

djdjohnson, on 08 March 2012 - 09:35 PM, said:

I'm running 4 at the office, and 6 at home. I love it!

Running 4 here and going on 5. Takes a special build for your bench/desk to do it right, but it's worth it!

[mrb186]

Damn, I only have 2, but one has to be portrait!

[ConnorMeeblings]

Think of the electric bill! It's a good thing we don't use CRTs anymore - that'd be sadistic.

[Nuke61]

I love to have a 3rd monitor for my home setup, but there just isn't any room on the desk. But I do have a really nice setup with "only" two monitors, but the resolution on the main display is very nice (see sig).

[MMastin]

I've only got two right now, but I sure could use a third.

[mipa]

Why can't someone make a 40 inch or larger monitor that CURVES so that when sitting your right in the middle of things and then you can break up the viewing into multiple zones?

[richeemxx]

mipa, on 09 March 2012 - 12:07 PM, said:

Why can't someone make a 40 inch or larger monitor that CURVES so that when sitting your right in the middle of things and then you can break up the viewing into multiple zones?

You mean something like the NEC CRV43, or the Ostendo CRVD both were 43-inch curved LCDs..I don't think either necessarily let you break them into zones but with that wide of a setup you could run multiple windows side by side with ease.

[jwojewidka]

Meyers from Michigan is dead right. Unless that extra real estate is used properly - just like any other tech - it's an efficiency killer.

That said, the biggest drivers by far for hooking up are 1) the relative low cost for really brilliant 21-24" monitors, and 2) the proliferation of smaller computing devices. 11-14" notebooks are great all-around companions, but you can't run two full-on applications on them without discomfort. And as we head to a ubiquitous net connection (though it won't be the always-connected nirvana we all hope for any time soon!), having our online world on one and local apps on another makes all kinds of sense. As long as we can concentrate on our work :-)

And, not unimportantly, phones are quickly heading to dock-and-go status (See Win 8 and Ubuntu 12.04; and you can bet the others are already all over this).

Because of these factors, I don't doubt we'll start seeing SuperLandscape monitors (Hey, I now own that term :-) very soon. I'd certainly rather have one uninterrupted view on one monitor vs. two.

[FairyMaryvt4o]

Guys, those of you who wish to have a 2nd or 3rd monitor but there just isn't any room on the desk can try iDisplay app for iPad or Android tablets. The app turns iPad/Android into a side monitor for Mac or PC.