- Cost: $650 maximum
- Display Type: S-PVA (?)
- Size: 24"
- HDMI with HDCP support
- LED-backlighting (?)
- Stand not that important, since I plan to buy an Ergotron arm at some point.
- Dell 2408WFP - $689 from Dell
- HP LP2475W - $610 on Newegg
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Computer Monitor
I'd like to move away from this Goodwill-procured 17" CRT monitor and onto something larger in screen size and smaller in footprint depth and heft. I will first need a new video card (GeForce 9800 or GTX 260) but after that happens, I will be looking at monitors. The monitor world is changing rapidly right now and new technologies are being utilized. I am hoping to buy one before the end of 2009.
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Hah hah. 17"!?! WTF you gonna do with this hog you just built?
I tell ya, I go notebook any day. I used to build and maintain computers. I've been into blip-crunchers since 1983 - C64, Apple][, and other such stuff - programmed assembly language for years. I just fixed my wife's P450 (rotten 20G HD, huh, sucks. Been going rotten for a while. Alpha particles? We had Mandrake10 running on it too, now it's the original 8G Win98 drive it came with, bah. At least Opera902 works on it).
I have an excellent ACER3502 notebook that I've been hacking at for over 3 years now. When I get the dough together I'll get a fresh dongle-box and pass this one to her.
So, to re-query:
WTF you ganna do with that fancy box?
I do plan to buy a netbook to form a third computer, in addition to my desktop and my N800. I haven't decided on which netbook, but it will be <$500 and have a 10" screen.
I see no purpose in buying a laptop with a large screen. If I was going to go for a full-size laptop, I'd contemplate the $999 Macbook but that's a bit pricey for what it does. The MSI Wind can (illictly) support MacOS, which might be nifty to triple-boot.
The box has some purpose, mainly it is how I communicate with the world ^_^. I don't play games but it might be nice to get into Warcraft III again or the upcoming Starcraft II. Primarily, it's main purpose is generic internet and such; secondary, it is movies and tertiary, it is programming.
I currently have an E2180 OC to 3.0GHz, 4GB RAM, 250GB system drive and 1TB data drive (soon to be purchased is another 1TB drive for backup -- I'm going totally away from DVD+Rs for backups). It's wrapped up in a shiny Antec P182 black box.
As for monitors, I miss my old NEC MultiSync 17" CRT, that made a beautiful picture but was very heavy, even compared to other 17" CRTs. But this is a brave new world and I'm going 24", either 16:10 or the movie-sized 16:9 (now in monitor quality). Doing 16:9 avoids any issues with 1:1 pixel mapping and such with external inputs (eg Blu-Ray player).
I am contemplating a cheap 22" monitor for <$300 and then seeing if I can live with that instead of jumping up to a 24" PVA. But this is my dream monitor! ^_^
Cool. A TB drive! I've been hankerin' on one of them for a while.
Up here in Canada I can borrow dvds from the public library and rippem. Sadly, I have no space to keep the stuff, so the blobs gets deleted as fast as they get watched. I got 'The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover' from the local library! LOL! $495 on EBAY! Not 4 bucks and 95 cents but 495 dollars! Free at Burnaby Public Library, but you have to ask for it at the counter.
Maybe I can post it in chunks to my site at mediafire.com. Helen Mirren, yum. Doesn't get any better.
Anyway, about the monitor(s): what is the appropriate way to dispose of these old CRT tanks?
BTW I'm an old school C Programmer. I don't know shit about C#. I thought C++ was silly. But it works...
1TB drives are easily obtainable for under US$150, closer to US$120 often (Samsung's is US$100). In fact, Seagate's 1.5TB drive is now available for US$130 on sale at Newegg (regular US$140). But, of course, those are for 3.5" drives and you'd need an external one.
That movie isn't something that would be my cup of tea. I do have an illicit movie collection that comprises both BT-obtained AVIs as well as DVDs copied from the local independent movie rental store. I prefer DVDs, of course, and have them still on normal DVD media for easy playing at other peoples' houses. I do plan to purchase more DVDs legally when my finances are better (nothing beats the actual copy).
To dispose of a CRT, call the local recycling center and talk to them about it. Apparently, in the US, manufacturers have very recently become obligated to pay for recycling costs of TVs and monitors. CFL-backlit LCD screens also contain mercury and are expensive to dispose of. New and upcoming LED-backlit screens are free of scary chemicals and would be much cheaper to dispose of.
C, C++ and C# are very different languages. Now, a valid C program is a valid C++ program, so that helps but they're different in practice because C++ is object-oriented. Microsoft named their language "C#" as an homage but it has little to do with either C or C++. The best way I can describe it is that it's "Java done right". Of course, the .Net platform has the benefit that other languages can use it. I can write a library in C# and a program which uses that library in Boo and there is no difference to the computer because they are compiled to an intermediate language, this is beautiful.
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