Bingowings said:

He might end up with two monitors which could be very handy for editing.

Oh my God, yes it is. This semester was the first semester I was allowed to work on the two-monitor workstations at school (as an Edit II student; in Edit I we had to use single-monitor workstations), and it makes everything much more streamlined and quicker. Plop your timeline and source/record monitors in the right monitor, and all your bins and, well, anything else in the left monitor, and you're good to go.

If you aren't already (and if at all possible), I'd highly recommend going for the two-monitor setup, Ady.