Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 3, 2013 @04:45AM from the looking-good dept.

First time accepted submitter oxidus60659 writes "I currently work as a programmer for a small business. They have provided me with a laptop and a 27" BenQ monitor on a Neo-Flex stand. The problem is that my main screen is the tiny laptop right in front of me. The 27" monitor is on the left at a very different height position. I want to put the 27" monitor directly above my laptop so I'm looking up rather than to the left for all my coding on the bigger monitor. The stand does not have a high enough setting to accommodate this. What would be a good stand that can mount to a desk high enough to be above a laptop? What kind of monitor setup do you use when programming?"

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Re:Shove the laptop to one side by blippo · 2013-03-03 09:57 · Score: 5, Informative

First of all, to avoid neck pain, strained eyes and a generally bad posture, keep the top of all your monitors level with your eyes - or lower.
Looking up will make your eyes blink less often (or not at all) and will make them dry. The neck isn't good at looking up either, and
a "vulture neck" isn't a chick magnet...
Use a good separate keyboard and mouse, the best keyboard is the Model M ! Unicomp makes several variants with 104/105 keys and usb. It's awsome!