Captain Obvious says: two monitors really are better than one

Posted on January 16th, 2009 by Steve

lcd_panellcd_panel Telling everyone what most people who work regularly with computers already know, a study performed by the University of Utah recently found that computer users with two monitors are routinely more productive than those with one.

In an article featured in the New York Times:

[Researchers] found that people who used two 20-inch monitors were 44 percent more productive at certain text-editing operations than people using a single 18-inch monitor.

Although I can personally attest to being more productive with two (or more) monitors, the study was sponsored by NEC, a major manufacturer of LCD computer monitors.  So make of it what you will, I suppose.

Nonetheless, that’s all the reason I need to go out and buy myself another 22” LCD monitor.

Filed under: Hardware, Offbeat


« »

One Response to “Captain Obvious says: two monitors really are better than one”

  1. Greg Glockner, on January 18th, 2009 at 8:46 am Said:

    I found that two computers are even better than two monitors. I just starting using Teleport to share a keyboard and mouse with two Macs – I put my MacBook on a stand and control it via the mouse and keyboard on my iMac. The advantage of a second computer is that if one is busy, you can work on the other computer.