>I never found bigger screens to increase productivity, they just give me a larger code window.
>I prefer 2 or more screens when writing code. I'm currently sat looking at 5 screens. I have a gut feeling that one large screen has certain ergonomic (and human perception) advantages over multiple screens. I find that swinging my head and eyes over to my second screen too frequently is uncomfortable. Sometimes by accident I will start typing something long on the second screen and I realise I feel a bit queasy and I move the window to centre-front and suddenly it all feels better again. I try to keep infrequently used windows on the second screen, ones that I glance at but don't "work" at. For example I have Outlook on the second screen, but I read and compose emails on the first screen. I reckon that if I had a huge screen then I wouldn't just fill it with a bigger code window, I'd dock more stuff open and around me to use the space wisely (I'll have to wait and see if I'm so disciplined in reality). I also theorise this is true because our eyes and brain like to look at one continuous surface rather than many disjoint ones. How on earth have you wired-up 5 screens and how are they positioned and supported? Wallace, we must always try to justify spending money on hardware by convincing ourselves and others that it will increase productivity. I told my wife that a spa, turbo Porsche, private helipad and wine cellar would help my productivity, but she just said I'd have to work harder and send out more invoices. Greg
