I tried using two 27" iMacs with the older one in target display mode and found it a bit silly when you have virtual desktops (or spaces). Similar experience ba

I tried using two 27" iMacs with the older one in target display mode and found it a bit silly when you have virtual desktops (or spaces). Similar experience back when I used Redhat as a postdoc, one was enough for me with a laptop as a second machine for secondary tasks. This seems a common setup for people in my field. However my coding is admittedly pretty simple, mostly scientific tools for data acquisition, processing and visualisation. I'm currently switching from Matlab to Python/scipy and on my iMac and MBP I'm happy with a couple of terminal windows and on the experimental rig taking the data, which runs Win7, I have pycharm docked to half the screen which itself is mounted above an optics bench so I have a nice standing setup. So on total I code across four screens but each on different machines!