How do the find the portrait vs landscape orientation works for you? Any change in productivity between the two?
I had a team-mate who swore by having one monitor in portrait mode where he kept his word/specs/reading whilst he worked primarily on the landscape monitor. Seemed to work for him.
I think that I would prefer 2 landscape (one on top of each other) then 2 portraits on either side. The problem is in getting the mounts to make it all work properly.
Also, HN seems to have dropped the "∝" symbol from the title!
I have a pair of AMD Radeon 5700 Series cards (apparently released in 2009!), which seem more than up to the challenge. One thing to consider is that with 2 graphics cards, you needs at least a 550W power supply (I had a 500W power supply that died trying its best).
Unfortunately my carpentry skills lacking, and the Dell Single Monitor Arm [1] are NOT suitable for mounting 2 monitors on top of each other (not enough height).
"Perceived productivity" is a worthless metric, making plots out of it is just ridiculous. How can you rate your productivity when you were 8 years old? You should know better as a data scientist.
That said, I have a 24" screen at home, but I use it mostly for gaming, while most of my programming is done on a 13" mbp.
You are quite right, it is a ridiculous metric that doesn't stand up to any scientific rigour.
The article was just supposed to be a bit of fun about my personal experience with different monitor configurations. I thought that this might be interesting to the HN crowd since so many of us spend so much time in front of screens.
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Also, HN seems to have dropped the "∝" symbol from the title!
It wouldn't take much carpentry to set them up in landscape, maybe with a cinder block or something in the back as a counterweight.
Unfortunately my carpentry skills lacking, and the Dell Single Monitor Arm [1] are NOT suitable for mounting 2 monitors on top of each other (not enough height).
[1]: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l...
That said, I have a 24" screen at home, but I use it mostly for gaming, while most of my programming is done on a 13" mbp.
The article was just supposed to be a bit of fun about my personal experience with different monitor configurations. I thought that this might be interesting to the HN crowd since so many of us spend so much time in front of screens.