Tuesday, October 05, 2004
While I didn't set out with this goal in mind when I went there at lunchtime, I came away from Futureshop with a new flat panel display. (Yes, this is another "he's bought a new gadget posts". ;-)
Work has spoiled me, as I have a double-screen arrangement there, and it is such an improvement over having a single screen. I ended up doing the same at home using my existing flat panel (a Samsung 170) and a spare CRT I had. But the CRT took up oodles of precious desk space, and in the end I realized that my physical desktop space was more important than my virtual one.
But then I saw this new Samsung 712N which was on sale as an open box/demo product, which put it in my price range. In the end they couldn't find the box for that one, so they give me a new one at the same price.
I haven't really put it through its paces yet, but it is a nice display. It is much brighter than the other flat panel I have twinned with it, and I find I had to dim its brightness setting down considerably for comfort. It has a 12ms refresh rate, which should make it viable for playing games with. On the downside its stand is not adjustable vertically, though that was soon remedied by piling some obsolete computer titles underneath it. That and the fact that it didn't come with a digital DVI adapter, but luckily I had a spare which works nicely.
Now all I need is the kick-ass computer to drive it. And that's coming... :-)
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