I have a single 30" monitor and use Spaces on the mac. It makes me much much more productive than smaller monitors. The thing I like most about the 30" monito

I have a single 30" monitor and use Spaces on the mac. It makes me much much more productive than smaller monitors. The thing I like most about the 30" monitor is the HEIGHT -- I can see more lines of code. The width doesn't usually get used until I do side-by-side diffs. The thing about one monitor is that I focus on one thing, and other things don't usually distract me from the sides. The notable exception is the red apple mail badge (small red numbers counting new mail). I sometimes have to turn down/off the mail check frequency. I organize things with Spaces: 1) mail+organizer+chat 2) calendar 3) browser 4-7) main dev windows (terminal/xemacs) 8) itunes