My three-display computing setup

[mtbc]

One thing I have appreciated at work is that they provide me with a three-display setup: the provided laptop can drive the two external monitors. It is good value for money because what costs is my labor hours so small increases in productivity soon accumulate. Perhaps one of those very wide curved screens would work even better. With my home setup, with just the one external monitor, it happens to have the same resolution as the work laptop's screen so windows move seamlessly between them. Anyhow, the three displays work well for me as they show:

1. Integrated Development Environment.


2. Reference materials: about the software I am developing, the technologies with which I do that, etc.


3. Communications status: e-mail, messaging, etc.
   

Being able to see all these at once is valuable. It's not as if there isn't scope for more: there is videoconferencing (which may include both participants and slides), terminals running shells, the web browser developer tools, etc. Despite actively closing those I no longer need for a while, with the three monitors I still pile windows atop each other.

Comments

[thewayne]

Nikon Small World is an awesome competition and collection! Take a look at Ebay some time.  It's surprising how much you can buy an SEM for.  I'm not saying they're pocket change, but less than a used car.  I'm not sure what they'd do to your electric bill, though.

[mtbc]

https://www.labonthecheap.com/ has some great self-build microscopes too that can be interesting, I saw they linked to https://openspim.org/ a while ago.