&#62; (top1: IM/Chat, 2: Graphics Editor, 3: Putty/Shell, bottom 4: FTP/Explorer, 5: Text Editor, 6: Browsers).<p>The mental cost of task switching probably takes a larger toll than Alt-Tab-ing.<p>&#62; She practically kicked me out of bed and told me to find my 6-LCD X-Mas gift.<p>;-) Probably because you kept whinning and talking about it and she got tired of it.<p>&#62; I've always been anti-laptops because come on, how can you even compare a 3 or 6-LCD setup to a laptop with a tiny screen, tiny keyboard, and crappy batteries.<p>I am also in general anti-laptops but for a different reason -- keyboards. As long as I can fit 2 80 column code windows in my emacs I can work fine, but not if the keyboard is crappy. That is why I spent a little extra and got a thinkpad -- it has one of the best keyboards and an integrated trackpoint (nipple) mouse. Between that and using emacs I don't have to lift my hands from the keyboard at all.