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Mark Jerde
 
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Default Designing home office with plenty of space... suggestions please

Exactly the same thing. Bitdorking & wooddorking. Setup & switching
is the timewaster.


For example I test web pages in several browsers: IE5, IE6, Opera &
Netscape. It's critical to be able to *see* them all at the same time to
observe the differences in browser rendering. A KVM is useless for this.
They have to be "user sized," side-by-side.

For me the most monitor intense activity is the user documentation phase of
a Windows application. I'm using all these applications *at the same time*:
- Programming environment
- Help file writer
- Source code version control
- Screen capture
- Image editor
- Image catalog
- Text file of help link topics and numbers
- www.dictionary.com My help file writer's spell check is weak
- Testing the program to make sure the help links are correct
The last time I did this I had a 4-monitor desktop. I wasted a lot of time
because it wasn't a 6-monitor desktop.

-- Mark