Apple recently paid for a test to be done on how larger monitors effect productivity, and their results are in. It looks like bigger monitors, or going dual-screen make a more productive person.

Pfeiffer’s testing showed time savings of 13.63 seconds when moving files between folders using the larger screen — 15.7 seconds compared to 29.3 seconds on the 17-in. monitor — for a productivity gain of 46.45 percent. The testing showed a 65.09 percent productivity gain when dragging and dropping between images — a task that took 6.4 seconds on the larger monitor compared to 18.3 seconds using the smaller screen. And cutting and pasting cells from Excel spreadsheets resulted in a 51.31 percent productivity gain — a task that took 20.7 seconds on the larger monitor versus 42.6 seconds on the smaller screen.

It is a little of a “well duh” for me, as I use two, sometimes three monitors during my daily work routine, and I know for a fact that going back to using the single monitor on my laptop sometimes drives me nuts.

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