[ScottFree]

Am I the only one who has two 27" monitors, but doesn't have to turn his head to look at them?

Mine are set up so that one is in front of me as normal. The other is tilted between the bottom of the first monitor and the front of my keyboard.

Pros: I don't have to turn my head side to side or upwards to see all of my screen real estate. I found that holding those positions too often bothers my neck and eyes, but looking down doesn't bother me at all.

Cons: You lose a lot of desk space. Cleaning underneath the bottom monitor can be a pain.

[nickflood]

If you haven't already, look into spring-loaded or hydraulic articulating mounts for your monitors. MountIt makes cheap stuff that's pretty good for the money. Saves so much desk space and the monitor can be very easily moved out of the way for cleaning or desk work and then positioned back with minimal effort.

[ScottFree]

I'm not sure what that gets me. The bottom monitor sits on the desk and moving it would disturb the monitor above it.

Here are some pictures of my setup: https://imgur.com/a/A43irYb

[tom_]

I've got 2 x 27" portrait monitors, total screen area ~70cm wide x ~60cm tall. Similar sort of area. It's odd, because I actually found even a single 27" landscape monitor rather uncomfortably wide! - but for some reason my current setup has never bothered me, and in fact I'd add a 3rd if my laptop could drive it.

I have one straight ahead of me, and I do have to turn my head a bit to look at the other one, but I don't find it troublesome. I don't really like working that way for long periods (e.g., when writing code in a text editor), but it's fine for command line stuff, and good for documentation.

[GordonS]

I'm struggling to visualise this setup - it sounds like the bottom monitor is tilted within a height of a few inches, and I can't understand how it could be useful to look at an almost flat monitor?

[ScottFree]

Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/A43irYb

I wish I could move the top monitor farther down and tilt the bottom monitor more. The top monitor is still a bit high for me. But, tilting the bottom monitor more isn't great either because of the view angles. I was thinking about grabbing a couple of 4k 17" monitors to replace the bottom 27" monitor with. It would let me bring the top monitor down and the bottom monitors wouldn't have to tilt so much.

Do they make ultrawide 17" monitors? :)

[GordonS]

Thanks for sharing the images, I get it now :)

This is an interesting layout, but I'm not sure it's for me; the main monitor looks to be too high up for me, and the perspective on the tilted monitor would irk me (I just tested this out with my laptop).