I’ll add my own analysis:
I’m leaning toward the 30" to get a decent primary working area without having to bother about the black border.
/Fredrik
Hehe, I never thought I’d have TOO much space, but I’d have to agree with ya on that. I think the issue may be back to horizontal scrolling as well. While we’re not physically using the horizontal scroll, in a way we are visually scrolling if we have a super wide monitor with two applications side by side. At least with “n-tier monitor” architecture, we have a definitive “break” in the monitors and function accordingly.
Personally, I’ve found Dexpot (freeware Windows based manager) to be the perfect solution for me. I have dual 19" at work, and 4 virtual desktops. I keep desktop 1 for my primary work, 2 for web browsing/research, 3 for e-mail, and 4 for miscellaneous/fun/extra stuff when the time arises.
The best thing is that Dexpot has hotkeys for virtually everything. I can open that e-mail outlining some code details and then hit WIN+1 (above the letters) to “throw” the e-mail message to my primary monitor. Then I hit WIN+1 (on the number pad) to jump back up to my work window and its right there. I even have some hot keys for “minimizing to tray” or “roll up” a given window when I need it temporarily.
I’ve gotten hooked on the “mouseless” type of work and I don’t worry too much about resizing windows.
Just wanted to say, first, your mentioning of Minority Report made me grin from ear to ear. Love to see a good appreciation for decent movies.
But onto the subject. I generally prefer computers with large monitors myself as well, being a gamer and a writer at the same time. I’m not your classic World of Warcraft junkie, but I do like to do many things at once, so I need something large that I can use to keep track of multiple things with.