What the author failed to account for is the fact that not everyone does the same type of work. As a security researcher I spend a fair amount of time watching

What the author failed to account for is the fact that not everyone does the same type of work. As a security researcher I spend a fair amount of time watching real-time code execution while simultaneously watching & modifying network traffic. In a typical solution review I might have Wireshark running on one monitor, an HTTP editor/proxy running on another hooked to the browser, another HTTP editor/proxy running on yet another monitor hooked to the web service. That's three monitors right there. Next I'll have the browser running on a fourth monitor and possibly be reviewing code and code execution on a fifth. On the sixth and seventh monitors I'll be doing research including static code analysis with the eighth and ninth monitors dedicated to coms (chat/email) and writing up my results. I routinely switch between my multi-monitor solution and a single screen laptop and there's just simply no way I can effectively do my job on one monitor these days. I'll do "simple" reviews on my one monitor laptop and stick with the multi-monitor solution for the harder stuff. http://defaultstore.com/mydesk.jpg http://defaultstore.com/mydesk.jpg