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These articles have made me want to buy a new monitor at home, but the 7 year-old 24" Dell monitor that I have still works perfectly fine. It's more than bright enough and there are no defective pixels. The $800 or whatever it cost back then seems like a lot, but what other 7-year-old computer part does anyone still use today? (My mouse and HHKB are getting there...)

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I upgraded to a 30" IPS(from a 24" IPS) and it's well worth it. It does take a little getting used to having that much screen that close but the adjustment period is on the order of a day or two.

I have a 30" at work. I don't really need the space. It isn't enough space to have four 100 column files open, and 24" is enough for three.

Multiple panels may be better for the way you work than one large panel. In general I don't think any programmer should have less than two monitors, ever. Ideally three (for the "center"), and if you're crazy, four.

I can work fine with a single 20" 1600x1200. It's not my dream setup but it's also not hindering me for my work (backend systems).

I've been thinking of going the 19/30/19 route, but I've had a hard time finding an affordable mount that converts that scheme into something I can mount on a single monitor arm.

I'm signed up for a metalworking class in the near future, so maybe I can solve that problem myself :)

I'm used to multiple desktops (gnome 3, gnome before that), and multiple panels turn out to be useless to me. I just can't spread my attention across two monitors, whereas I switch desktops without thinking about it.

Task switching, replacing one set of content with another (literally) isn't generally free: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/the-multi-tasking-m...

What font face and size do you use? I found that Consolas at 12 requires 2560 to get three 100 columns side-by-side.

I use DejaVu Sans Mono-10 on the 30" and -9 on the 24".

I use an 8 year old laptop. Quite capable for wasting time on HN and reddit. Oh, and pretty much every web app out there...

Out of curiosity, what's the model # and specs?

Thinkpad X31, Pentium M 1.4 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 12" XGA, hard drive upgraded to a Seagate ST980815A (http://bin.piorkowski.ca/hdtune/x31-seagate-5400.3.png)

Running Ubuntu 10.04 or something, used to run Windows 7 quite well too

I successfully used my X31 for the entire week at OSCON. With so many Mac Pros and T430s around, I got a lot of stares when I whipped out this 12" 4:3 piece of history.

People brought T430s to OSCON? The keyboard layout alone should be enough to disqualify the __30 series :(

What's wrong with the keyboard? It's different, but all the reviews I've read have grudgingly admitted that it's actually better (or at least just as good) as the old keyboard.

I'm having huge issues getting over the layout (no space between F key groups, home/end/pgup/pgdown block broken up). I haven't typed on one, admittedly.

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