A Thing of Beauty
August 25th, 2007 by heathenx
My latest toy!
At home I had a 15″ monitor. I know…not the best size for anything. However, I have a computer armoire at home so that I can close it up when I am finished using my PC to hide all of the clutter. When it’s open it looks like a gadget train wreck with all of the devices that I have plugged into things. I always liked CRT’s due to the crisp video. I have a 22″ CRT at work. The thing is a monster but the clarity is great. Anyway, I could never put a large monitor inside my armoire and expect it to close. So I had to sacrifice with a smaller monitor.
So yesterday my wife was cruising the net and found a reasonably price Acer 19″ widescreen LCD at our local Wal-Mart. She asked me if I would like one. Uhh…YES! So she went and picked it up and it was waiting for me when I got home from work.
This thing is really nice. Major improvement over my 15″ CRT…obviously. And it fits quite nicely in the armoire. openSuse picked it up automatically and now I am staring back at a 1400×900 thing of beauty. I was concerned about how my fonts would look on an LCD but no worries. They look great. I’m impressed with Suse’s hardware support.
Very pleased. 
August 26th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Very very nice! I would have offered you the monitor we use for all our screencast postings, but it’s not widescreen.
Do you like the 900 vert resolution? I was offered a 19″ widescreen at work but opted to keep my 1280×1024 4:3 19″ lcd because I wasn’t comfortable sacrificing the 100 or so vertical pixels to gain the horizontal ones.
Now the draftsmen are all getting 24″ widescreen jobbies.. Now THAT I would have NO trouble opting for!!
August 26th, 2007 at 1:40 pm
I was running 1280×1024 on my 15″ here but I rather like the 1400×900. It would be small for CAD work even though the widescreen portion would be nice. If I were doing CAD work at home then I would opt for at lease the Acer 20″ widescreen because you get extra 100 pixels and a digital output. It’s not that much more in price either.