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Friday, October 30, 2009

New Monitor

a 5" difference is a big difference

I bought this dirt cheap ($95) Dell 22'' monitor from Woot earlier this week (it's analog), and the FEDEX guy was here at 8AM with it. It's blowing me away .. literally. I tried moving it to the back of my desk, but still too big, and too bright. I'm not complaining by the way, just surprised at the difference 5" can make. I think it may be overpowering my graphics card a bit, since everything has slowed down. Reminds me of when I put three deuces (Holly) on my 1950 Ford. Had to buy an electric fuel pump to keep up. Then I started breaking rear axles so fast (over torqued) that I kept a supply in the trunk. I may have stepped in it here too, by not knowing my place. Got uppity.

Rodger the Real King of France 10/30/2009 12:44:00 PM 12 Comments

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...: I'll take it off your hands. I bought one of those acer netbooks.

Casca; 10/30/09, 1:21 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Oh, no. I'm tuning it and already love it. Woot Woot Woot Woo!; 10/30/09, 1:30 PM
Jacques said...: you are tooo old, really, I remember my first 19" CRT that cost a fortune...; 10/30/09, 4:27 PM
SondraK, Lympian Slayer said...: ...I'm not complaining by the way, just surprised at the difference 5" can make...; 10/30/09, 6:16 PM
Anonymous said...: My new girlfriend says that I have 5" more than her ex ! She is quite pleased with the upgrade also : ) smibsid; 10/30/09, 6:26 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I made the mistake of saying, "Five inches more and I'd be a king." MoSup - "Five inches less and you'd be a queen."

bitch; 10/30/09, 7:07 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: By the by, I tracked down that I'd been using the wrong graphics driver for a lonnnnng time. Now everything's just swell.; 10/30/09, 7:09 PM
BlogDog said...: I remember how hard a sell (and I wasn't even selling them) it was to get people to move to a 17" monitor when 14 and 15 " monitors were the norm. I couldn't get friends to see how much more desktop real estate there was with the step up.
Now, I look at my 24" iMac and think "Day-um these things are out in 27" now!"; 10/30/09, 8:12 PM
Alear said...: If the queen had balls, she'd be king; 10/30/09, 10:33 PM
Anonymous said...: You had a '50 Shoebox Ford? No shit? Photos, please.

Dan Patterson
Arrogant Infidel; 10/31/09, 12:19 AM
Flyfish said...: After purchasing a new pc with some serious balls (i7 CPU, GTX285 video card, 9G ram) I also upgraded to dual 23" LG monitors. Now I have desktop real estate!; 10/31/09, 1:33 PM
Anonymous said...: MoSup wins - best reply, evah!!

(My original MacSE30 with a 9" black&white CRT sits quietly on the corner of my desk... still works after all these years.)
--Jack; 10/31/09, 8:35 PM

Friday, October 30, 2009

New Monitor

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