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Dual Monitors Are a Bad Idea

By nipper

I’ve seen mention of a couple studies that show that dual monitors increase productivity [20-30% increase; 44% increase].  Note:  how much would your productivity need to increase to go justify going “dual”? As the title implies, I’m currently of the school that believes that dual monitors are a bad idea, even though I use them (I have three earlier posts on dual monitors). Why my change of heart?  I did the math. I have dual 19″ wide monitors.  If I was to rotate them to a portrait orientation, whip out the Pythagoreans theorum…the combined diagonal is 25.6 inches (on my particular screens). Hmm… The cost to go dual 19″ (if you already have a 19″) = cost of second 19″ monitor + cost of dual head video card + labor/time to install and configure...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on February 06, 2009 (boomark / email).