Blog readers know I'm a multimonitor fan. Two screens aren't enough for me -- three is the magic number, as I've written in My Multimonitor Setup: Three Screens For One Computer. I'm not alone. Apparently, Bill Gates thinks three is the way to go as well, as he writes in Fortune today:

On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

The screen on the left has my list of e-mails. On the center screen is usually the specific e-mail I'm reading and responding to. And my browser is on the right-hand screen. This setup gives me the ability to glance and see what new has come in while I'm working on something, and to bring up a link that's related to an e-mail and look at it while the e-mail is still in front of me.

Bill's setup:

My setup:

I wonder if he's got a Spot watch like me? Very soon, I'll blog the joys of that!

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