eh, buy some adjustable VESA mounts and nail your monitors to the wall. use the podium for the keyboard.

Have you ever programmed with a new monitor, or even at someone else's machine? It's hard. I would waste a lot of time adjusting everything to the exact settings and configuration as my laptop, down to the dead pixel and finger-print smudges.

yup. though, for me, my desktop (well, wallside) is the perfect setup; using a laptop is a real pain.