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3x24" or 1x30" for programmers

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thecodemeist3r

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I use Visual studio 2008, and I was wondering, what do programmers out there like better, 3 24" LCDs or one giant 30"?
 
I find 2 monitors more useful than 3, but I'd take 2 24" screens over one 30" any day.
 
get two, you don't more for programming.

I use VS2008 all day on a 19in LCD and the 17in on my laptop and I never need more space and I always have tons of things open. I would like bigger ones though.

Actually, I would like a widescreen that does portrait mode.
 
I would prefer a couple 24" screens over one 30"... especially some of the Dell monitors that I can rotate 90 degrees. To me, vertical realestate has a higher value for coding than horizontal realestate.


Bigbacon said:
get two, you don't more for programming.

I use VS2008 all day on a 19in LCD and the 17in on my laptop and I never need more space and I always have tons of things open. I would like bigger ones though.

Actually, I would like a widescreen that does portrait mode.
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I've done this with a 20" Dell monitor without issue. It was a 2007WFP that I bought a couple years ago, and it worked great. Some of the newer monitors also will rotate and scale appropriately, but there's a higher price tag for that feature (among others they incorporate) versus the normal Dell monitors.
 
I use two 21-inch monitors at home. At work, I've had a 30-inch monitor for a couple of years and I just moved to having two 30-inch monitors. I couldn't be happier with the work setup.

I think it comes down to what kind of development work you do. Since I do mostly server stuff these days, I want more visible area to run monitoring tools while I'm working on code. Having two monitors is very good for doing GUI work, as you can set up the debugger to not obscure the application under test.

It's also a matter of personal preference; you should decide for yourself what you like.
 
Larger panels are really most useful for graphics and artwork like video editing etc. For coding 2x24 (even 2x22) work plenty well. This lets you run editors and terminals and the like on different screens more easily.

For web design I prefer the 3x22 or the 4x22 as this allows you to keep multiple browsers (firefox, chrome, etc) on one monitor, your editors on another, FTP and terminals in the third, and photoshop and the like on the 4th. It might be overkill, but makes it much quicker than switching apps or hunting for where things are.
 
NeoMatriX724 said:
Larger panels are really most useful for graphics and artwork like video editing etc. For coding 2x24 (even 2x22) work plenty well.
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In wondering: how long did you spend using a single, larger monitor before formulating your opinion?
 
This thread reminds me I need to put a work order to IT for a new PC.


2 x 24+ monitors would be very nice. 8 gb's of RAM would'nt hurt either...

I'm stuck with a 22" monitor and 3 gigs of ram.... bleh. It takes 5 minutes to start up visual studio 08.

The more real estate the better.
 
I'm stuck with a 22" monitor and 3 gigs of ram.... bleh. It takes 5 minutes to start up visual studio 08.
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5 minutes to launch Visual Studio?

On topic, I'd love to get a Dell 3007 monitor. :)
 
m stuck with a 22" monitor and 3 gigs of ram.... bleh. It takes 5 minutes to start up visual studio 08.
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You've done something horribly wrong to your computer. It starts up in under 10 seconds on my home machine (older Athlon X2, 2GB RAM).
 
2x24". so you can easily run 2 applications full screen. vs+app, vs+api docs.
 
Well.

The PC has so much crap installed ( I have about 20 different USB modem drivers installed, for instance) that it reaaaally bogs down.

I have to run many many things at once and it is always low on RAM, i.e. when I switch to VS08 it can take around 30 seconds for all the tabs to redraw themselves. It's quiet sad. It's always chugging along to HD and HD is overfilled.
 
I like multiple monitors versus a single one, even if the single monitor has a high resolution like 2560x1600.

Previously I had 3 monitors at one company, really let me work pretty well without switching between windows constantly.
At my current company I have a single 20" monitor and it feels so claustrophobic with a 1680x1050 resolution. I have 6 different Visual Studio 2005 instances running with about 10 other windows open at the same time and I have to switch between them very frequently. Gets rather annoying. :) I'm at the point where I will just shell out $300 myself and get 2 high res monitors for work.

At home I have 2x24" monitors and absolutely love the real estate, plus since I spend a lot of time VPNed into work via virtual machine, I just have the VM full screened on my second monitor. Also helps to have several documents open and a clear view of Visual Studio.
 
wtf, get a new computer then. You or your company is throwing money out the window while you sit there and wait all the time.

Compared to labor computers are cheap.

BDV said:
Well.

The PC has so much crap installed ( I have about 20 different USB modem drivers installed, for instance) that it reaaaally bogs down.

I have to run many many things at once and it is always low on RAM, i.e. when I switch to VS08 it can take around 30 seconds for all the tabs to redraw themselves. It's quiet sad. It's always chugging along to HD and HD is overfilled.
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Working on it. Not as simple as I'd like in this company.
 
i use three at work

2* 20" 1600x1200 (would love to up them to 1920*1200)
1*19" 1024x1280 (vertical orientation)

i use the 2 20" for SQL and VS
and the 19 generally gets used for word (requirements etc)
 
I work for a small company without a lot of funds to spend on new hardware all the time, so I've got a dual setup with a 17" and a 15". I'd like more res, obviously, but echo mikeblas's sentiments about being able to code on one screen and do/monitor something related to it on the other (even if it's as simple as watching my email for customer support stuff).
 
In your case, I say 2 monitors is adequate. A single 30" would work just fine too.

However if you were doing advanced web development, that would change though, I typically have photoshop, flash, a text editor for coding, ftp program like wsftp, Putty (terminal window, telnet etc.), and a couple browser windows open all at the same time...

I work on 2x30" monitors and I want to get a third.
 
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