I have found over the years that L desks with a 'shelf' work well with multi monitor. My personal setup, is an L desk where on the long part of the L; it has a shelf which holds 4 monitors. Then on the other side, that has a keyboard tray, I have a monitor, keyboard and mouse. This is hooked up to a KVM connected to 2 machines and 2 docking stations.

I do web design/development, so I can never have too many browsers open or monitors in general ;)

Of course there are a few companies out there that will make you crazy computer desk setups (Anthro is the only one that comes to mind atm), but these are just extremely $$$$.

Wow, now that is something that will definitely make you go "wow", only problem is that I think that monitors are bound to stop being an aid when there are more than 20 :tisk: also, having something like 32 monitors would be way too expensive, power-consuming and could be way too difficult to manage. I mean, doesn't the average video card only manage 2 monitors? Does this person then need 16 video cards or something? How much would that be?? (also, doesn't this person use a pretty cheap keyboard and mouse?)

Why would you want to use a KVM? I just read about it on Wikipedia after I read your post and I thought it sounded pretty pointless. So you control every computer at once?

L shaped desks are a good idea though, and sound like the kind of thing which would fit my needs best.

Not so you can control every computer at once, a KVM only allows you to control any one computer at once. The point of it is you only need one monitor, keyboard and mouse for multiple machines.

It is useful for machines that need interactive access less than often, it saves on space, cost (1 monitor instead of one per machine), and power.

KVMs can also come in handy when you are running headless servers and need to see the console once in a blue moon.

Of course when it comes to server racks, you really need KVMs (or a cart, but not the point here) since you have very little space.