[Pc_Support] 19" widescreen LCDs are awesome

[Damien McKenna]

(from my blog)

I'm having a major bout of monitor envy. At work, after my  
suggestion, they upgraded the office so everyone is on LCDs and as  
part of the deal the Geek gang got swishy new 19" widescreen  
Viewsonics. They're awesome. With a native resolution of 1440x900 it  
has 1.6 times the screen real estate of a 15" 1024x768 screen, has  
lots of width to place windows side-by-side (useful for code  
comparisons) and doesn't make you crane your neck to look from top to  
bottom, unlike some larger screens. One really cool feature is that  
if you have two computers available, one with a regular 15-pin VGA  
connector and one with a swishy new DVI connector, you can have both  
of them connected simultaneously and just press a button on the  
screen to switch between them, so using this I've got both my Mac and  
beefy PC ready to go as needed. I will definitely say that the DVI  
output from the Geforce 6800 in the PC is far superior to the VGA  
from the Geforce 4 MX on the Mac, the text is much more crisp. To  
give you even more screen envy we got them for about $216 with free  
shipping and a $20 rebate brings the price to under $200, a third of  
what we paid for our 17" LCD a few years back! NewEgg is where we got  
them and to make life easier for you here's a link to search their  
site with the various options we went for:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2090190020 
+1109917096+1233214217+1233314219&Subcategory=2

-- 
Damien McKenna, husband, father, geek.
damien at mc-kenna.com - http://www.mc-kenna.com/