Could be really good for coders who want to see long page views.
Coders ... or software developers, software architects and engineers too
I hate the "short screen" displays. ("short screen" and "wide screen" are synonyms)
Completely agree, the race for width has gotten old IMO
My main systems (home and work) have three 1920x1200 monitors, usually in Portrait-Landscape-Landscape orientation. 1920 vertical is nirvana for reading documentation, papers or other text.
Yes, I find for getting work done that three monitors is optimal, a main and two flanking. I have three 27" TB (one is Cinema) on my Mac Pro. It's good, but I'd prefer vertical.
Eh, so many coding IDEs are built around column views that it would be an ok, but not great choice. If you're in a situation where you need to see two code files side by side it's not really better.
I don't like that because it's assymetrical, i.e. there's nothing in the center you're looking at. So what I do at home (a PC and nMP both for doing work) and at work is have three. Even more than multiple code pages is you need a browser (constantly looking up things), terminal and I always have a UML modeling tool. So I go with three. Three of these will be ideal for me.
Edit: I'd also add, actually IDE's are designed for wide screen. Consider IntelliJ, Xcode, Visual Studio and Eclipse. All of them have a main center area for code and whatnot, with wide gutters on either side for viewing project structure etc. They also commonly have docked bottom gutters.
Question for the group, running three DP on a nMP, what would be a good configuration with a TB2 data connection also? I assume I can do two DP on one TB bus, one on the other with the third TB bus saved for the data?
