Size Matters

If you are still tooling around with a small computer monitor (or worse, your staff is), check out this post from the WSJ's Business Technology Blog. It is time to supersize:

Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly peopleperformed tasks like editing a document and copying numbers betweenspreadsheets while using different computer configurations: one with an18-inch monitor, one with a 24-inch monitor and with two 20-inchmonitors. Their finding: People using the 24-inch screen completed thetasks 52% faster than people who used the 18-inch monitor; people whoused the two 20-inch monitors were 44% faster than those with the18-inch ones. There is an upper limit, however: Productivity droppedoff again when people used a 26-inch screen.