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Is your monitor landscape or potrait?   [Edit]

Survey period: 30 Jan 2012 to 6 Feb 2012

Monitors are usually oriented with the width longer than the height. Yet we work with long, narrow documents. Does this make sense?

OptionVotes% 
All my monitors are landscape.1,10779.47
I use a mix of landscape and portrait.15611.20
All my monitors are portrait.433.09
My monitors are square.876.25



 
GeneralLooks Landscape Pin
Prasyee5-May-12 0:20
Prasyee5-May-12 0:20 
GeneralLandscape Pin
ProEnggSoft21-Feb-12 5:40
ProEnggSoft21-Feb-12 5:40 
GeneralAt least 1200 vertical pixels Pin
Petr Vones5-Feb-12 6:05
Petr Vones5-Feb-12 6:05 
GeneralPotrait? Portait? Pin
Adrian Cole4-Feb-12 18:37
Adrian Cole4-Feb-12 18:37 
QuestionIteration in VB.net Pin
James M. White31-Jan-12 12:14
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GeneralRe: Iteration in VB.net Pin
StM0n31-Jan-12 20:09
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GeneralRe: Iteration in VB.net Pin
Bryian Tan3-Feb-12 3:11
professionalBryian Tan3-Feb-12 3:11 
AnswerRe: Iteration in VB.net Pin
Emilio Garavaglia31-Jan-12 20:34
Emilio Garavaglia31-Jan-12 20:34 
GeneralMy setup Pin
Michael Bergman31-Jan-12 5:29
Michael Bergman31-Jan-12 5:29 
QuestionWhy are the surveys getting dumber every week? PinPopular
bosedk31-Jan-12 1:58
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CPallini31-Jan-12 7:22
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GeneralThis whole subject would be settled if we had circular monitors Pin
gogbatch30-Jan-12 23:13
gogbatch30-Jan-12 23:13 
GeneralRe: This whole subject would be settled if we had circular monitors Pin
Blubbo31-Jan-12 2:15
Blubbo31-Jan-12 2:15 
GeneralRe: This whole subject would be settled if we had circular monitors Pin
PIEBALDconsult31-Jan-12 3:00
mvePIEBALDconsult31-Jan-12 3:00 
GeneralRe: This whole subject would be settled if we had circular monitors Pin
MatthysDT1-Feb-12 1:00
MatthysDT1-Feb-12 1:00 
GeneralI'm not A4... Pin
SmellyCheese30-Jan-12 21:05
SmellyCheese30-Jan-12 21:05 
GeneralMy monitors are not square....... Pin
Vivi Chellappa30-Jan-12 15:24
professionalVivi Chellappa30-Jan-12 15:24 
GeneralRe: My monitors are not square....... Pin
OriginalGriff30-Jan-12 21:49
mveOriginalGriff30-Jan-12 21:49 
GeneralRe: My monitors are not square....... Pin
Johnny J.1-Feb-12 1:11
professionalJohnny J.1-Feb-12 1:11 
General4 screens Pin
Stonkie30-Jan-12 13:10
Stonkie30-Jan-12 13:10 
I tell everybody about my setup because I sincerely believe it is awesome and you should get something similar! I use 4 x 23" 1080p screen with 2 portrait and 2 landscape.

Landscape is great if you need to fire up a VM, a remote desktop session, an image editor, your music player, IM, etc. It's also pretty good for running the application you are working on (I don't typically design apps for portrait). And taking a break to watch some video in portrait sucks isn't ideal...

On the other hand, portrait is perfect for web browsing (as long as websites obey the 1024 wide rule, the width is wasted anyway) and coding. It's also pretty cool to have two portrait screens side by side to compare files easily. I also place Visual Studio (or Eclipse) on the portrait monitor next to the landscape one. This way, I can have the solution explorer, output view and everything but the code on the landscape monitor. This gives a huge amount of pixels for the actual code. No more scrolling to see the other half of a method!

It hurts whenever I have to code on my laptop or someone else's computer...

Btw, I also use a laptop like "scissors keys" keyboard[^] and my 9 years old mouse[^] has more buttons than my phone.

You owe it to yourself to be comfortable and to your customer to be productive.
GeneralRe: 4 screens Pin
Kamran Behzad30-Jan-12 13:47
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Marc Clifton30-Jan-12 15:18
mvaMarc Clifton30-Jan-12 15:18 
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Wes Grant2-Feb-12 8:31
Wes Grant2-Feb-12 8:31 
GeneralMy desk and my see-through cat Pin
Marc Clifton30-Jan-12 10:05
mvaMarc Clifton30-Jan-12 10:05 
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Paul M Watt30-Jan-12 20:26
mentorPaul M Watt30-Jan-12 20:26 

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