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I tell everybody about my setup because I sincerely believe it is awesome and you should get something similar! I use 4 x 23" 1080p screen with 2 portrait and 2 landscape.
Landscape is great if you need to fire up a VM, a remote desktop session, an image editor, your music player, IM, etc. It's also pretty good for running the application you are working on (I don't typically design apps for portrait). And taking a break to watch some video in portrait sucks isn't ideal...
On the other hand, portrait is perfect for web browsing (as long as websites obey the 1024 wide rule, the width is wasted anyway) and coding. It's also pretty cool to have two portrait screens side by side to compare files easily. I also place Visual Studio (or Eclipse) on the portrait monitor next to the landscape one. This way, I can have the solution explorer, output view and everything but the code on the landscape monitor. This gives a huge amount of pixels for the actual code. No more scrolling to see the other half of a method!
It hurts whenever I have to code on my laptop or someone else's computer...
Btw, I also use a laptop like "scissors keys" keyboard[^] and my 9 years old mouse[^] has more buttons than my phone.
You owe it to yourself to be comfortable and to your customer to be productive.
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I only have the luxury of 2 monitors (both at work and at home). But my Visual Studio setup is just like yours: Coding on the portrait and debug windows and Solution explorer, toolbox, etc. in landscape. Once you switch to this, using one monitor lone seems very inconvenient.
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I have 2 of those illuminated keyboards. I love them. I bought a second one to use with my laptop.
Marc
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Do you see through the cat, or does the cat see through you?!
All of my software is powered by a single Watt.
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Hey, your cat is in portrait - mine are normally in landscape...
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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Is a portrait screen for people who want really long methods, and like text wrap or for people who have a *giant* monitor and a long neck (two landscape monitors, stacked).
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There is no way it can sensibly be answered by "BACON".
For proof, it has been here all day and Nagy hasn't found a way yet.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Wow - is this some kind of European thing? 
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They are talking about the classic 4:3 monitors. But I think you know this.
I preferred them for coding. New is not always better.
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New Coder On The Block wrote: They are talking about the classic 4:3 monitors.
Wow, I've never heard anyone call them square monitors. 
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My old 21" CRT monitor was pretty much square. Almost exactly in fact, IIRC.
Bl**dy heavy too.
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Wow - is this some kind of European thing?
No, it's a "don't take drugs, don't drink, don't dance" thing. 
Marc
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Wow - is this some kind of European thing
it's something that you would only see in a very small, select part of England. The land where people still know "up" from "along"...
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
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jan lucas wrote: The land where people still know "up" from "along"...
Huh, what? Are you saying modern day Brits mix those words up?
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote: Huh, what? Are you saying modern day Brits mix those words up?
... I think I was misquoting Lewis Carol, but I'm not sure... I may have been in my cups...
My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
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jan lucas wrote: think I was misquoting Lewis Carol,
Well, my ignorance knows no bounds I guess!
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Wow - Is that a American thing? 
Cogito ergo sum
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One is a wide-screen landscape for most work, and the other is a wide-screen set to portrait. It is very handy, being able to switch between the two as needed.
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Same with me. One screen is for coding, second is for database + larger things to read like howto etc. The best combination.
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Some how a square monitor looks pleasant to me  
Then comes landscape and the last thing I prefer is portrait as I do not want to roll my eyes up and down 
But hey it's just ME 
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Everything is wide screen these days. Good for watch movies and playing games, bad for work (at least for coding)
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