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I've always felt the same. A huge monitor has never felt any better or more productive than my Macbook Air -- just bigger. I mean, I just never need to be looking at more than one window at once. And when I need to interact with multiple windows (editor, browser, e-mail, docs, whatever), then I need to shift the focus to each of them anyways to reload the browser, change the code, highlight a new email, etc. -- so I always have to cmd+tab to the window no matter what. After all, you can only look at a single window at a time, and I never need to keep things open for constant monitoring or anything. (I do a little 'trick' with OSX, however, which is to always resize every application to use the full screen area, and keep it on its own desktop, so I never have to deal with the clutter and confusion of overlapping windows. And remember, dragging and dropping files etc. works between desktops just fine!) |
* Code editor * Terminal with the logs of my app * Web browser where I see my app running
It's really one task, and focus is on doing this one thing (coding). But having these windows visible at the same time really saves my short time memory.