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I got almost the exact same setup at work and home. Once I tasted the flavor of two monitor development at work last year, there was no going back. I had to set up the same at home.
But I have been reading on video boards that offer 3 monitor setup (Plus Kick-Arse gaming experience). Once I read it, it's in my blood-stream, then there's no stopping it. Nothing can stand in the way of an idea whose time has come.
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At home, I have an 21.5" iMac and a 37" LCD TV. At work, I have a 15" Lenovo ThinkPad  .
That means: I think my home setup is better... 
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Work - 4 monitors (laptop screen (1280x800)+ 3 (1080x1650, 1280x1024, 1050x1680)
Home - 2 (laptop 1920x1080 + old 'HD' TV 1368x720 [which can 'fake' 1920x1080, but it doesn't look as good])
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The only people I have seen use 7+ monitors in person are traders, they love having at least 8 of em. Helps them watch the market, watch porn, book vacations, keep track of the baseball game, they really never need that many to trade.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I think that guy is just like a policeman or something that is just only watching "video monitor boards" to watch some images of the entrances
luisnike19
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We have CPians that are members of the police? I.. uhhh.. must go through some of my old posts... 
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It's not uncommon in security industries, particually monitoring centers.
Best,
Jun
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wizardzz wrote: they really never need that many to trade.
One big 22" LCD can display 4, maybe 6, L2's. A trader working the market will need that for a couple of instruments + sector + market indicies. Most traders will use three or four monitors just for market information.
Now add in the fact they're working several positions - house trading books - and monitoring risk exposure - more positions - and you've just banged down another monitor, maybe even two.
Ah, he's taking customer orders over the line, guess what? A screen for inbound, pendings, etc and we've just used up another monitor.
He doesn't want all the entry forms infront of his monitoring so they need another monitor.
Suddenly 8 and 12 monitors are needed. The PC's are dog tired by now. 
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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I should clarify that I was referring to futures, options, commodities, and currency traders, not securities, since that is my only experience.
The trading I've done, and the traders I know, use quite efficient software for screen real estate. Albeit I was only trading 6 pairs of currencies, I only needed about 3 monitors. Most of the traders I know stick to only a few symbols, or even just 2 or 3. Most of the professional traders in the last 2 shops I've worked at stick to about 4-6 screens.
Nagy Vilmos wrote:
Suddenly 8 and 12 monitors are needed. The PC's are dog tired by now.
Many traders use a separate box for getting market info than they do to trade, relieves the NIC and PC to calculate risk and send orders when needed.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Because we manage the whole hoo hah, we can get upto 20 L2's on a trader's machine. We have a pretty high-end solution, being used by high-end sell-side shops.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction.
My work here is done.
or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb -- they're often *students*, for heaven's sake. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett)
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Yeah, I never experienced anything related to L2 trading. I like my currencies!
Have you guys ever explicitly split up your market data and order sending responsibilities between 2 machines?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"
— Hunter S. Thompson
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At my present company(+-250 people) EVERYONE has two 24" widescreen LCD monitors
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I wish, nowhere I've worked yet had two or more monitors for employees...
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anyone else surprised at how many people have answered with "1 monitor"? i would have assumed that >= 2 is the norm for developers 
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Why in the world would you assume that? First of all there has never been a proven productivity gain for general programming usage, I feel it's quite the opposite in fact and these days you can get a large enough monitor that two is redundant in any case.
There are some highly specific reasons to use two monitors and they involve debugging while running certain apps, apart from that it's all vanity and wasted money and electricity.
There is no failure only feedback
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wow, someone has strong feelings about number of monitors... all developers and engineers at my company have >= 2 monitors... that's all 
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Sorry, I've heard a mountain of crap here from people over the years trying to justify it with extremely weak arguments that in the end seem to boil down to "it's just better that way don't try to shake my faith". There are the odd person here and there who really need it but the vast majority simply don't.
Tremendous waste of resources when you add it all up but people do love their toys.
There is no failure only feedback
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if everyone tried to justify tech purchases, a lot of us engineers wouldn't even have jobs... 
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Yup no doubt. And a lot of people here are not working for their own company so they have no concept of doing as much as possible with as few resources as possible. If the extra monitors were coming out of their own pocket their responses would be very different.
There is no failure only feedback
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that's true, i only have 1 at home, i have 3 at work...
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Having a multi-monitor setup is one of those things like power steering or aircon in your car. Before you've tried it, you think, "Why would anyone want that? What I have works just fine." But once you've had it for a while, you never want to go back to being without it.
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gogbatch wrote: But once you've had it for a while, you never want to go back to being without
it.
Exactly. Which is why I have 2 at home (where I have to pay for it) even though my home 'laptop' have a 1920x1080 screen.
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i really only have one at home because i have a tiny desk... 
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that's true... i do love the multiple monitor setup, specially when programming...
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There is also developer morale to take notice of. Developers like to have 2 or more screens, and I've heard more than one person say they chose a company based on their conditions (screen size, computer speeds, number of screens) mainly because it shows the company's attitude towards their developers. We buy big screens, libraries people want to use, plugins, all in the name of improved productivity or happiness. Obviously budget is important, but a screen is a small portion of a dev's monthly salary.
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