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by jwilliams 6367 days ago
Can't see the video outside the US :| Wonder what the application for this is? I can imagine maybe for trading and dashboard scenarios?

At an old workplace we did some unscientific usability testing on big screen and multimonitor setups.

One thing I found was that 30" was too big. For me, flicking the mouse required you to track your eyes/head too much. 27" was borderline, but I found 2x24" was the best setup for coding - one primary screen and one secondary screen.

3x24" was quite good if you had a tertiary task - e.g. having chat/email/etc open. For me though, this was just distracting. It was better as a task that I switched in and out from.

Any more and the redundancy of screen real-estate started to be distracting rather than useful.

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If you follow the MTV Cribs link below the embedded video, you can see it. It's a bit over the top, but there are some nice areas there!