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]

Very nice! I never needed more than two when I worked IT, generally my SQL Server Enterprise Management mainly filling one screen and a development tool filling another. Now I'd be happy with a computer that's less than six years old! Even putting in 16 gig of ram would be a heck of an improvement! With only 8, I'm using over 75% and hammering the poor thing!

I never needed video conferencing before I semi-retired. I watched some, but it was never interactive. Different world these days. :-)