"Andrei Alexandrescu" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On 1/15/11 9:11 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> Heh :) Well, I can spend no money and stick with my current 21" CRT that >> already suits my needs (that I only paid $25 for in the first place), > > My last CRT was a 19" from Nokia, 1600x1200, top of the line. Got it for > free under the condition that I pick it up myself from a porch, which is > as far as its previous owner could move it. I was seriously warned to come > with a friend to take it. > > It weighed 86 lbs. > > That all worked for me: I was a poor student and happened to have a huge > desk at home. I didn't think twice about buying a different monitor when I > moved across the country... > > I wonder how much your 21" CRT weighs. >
No clue. It's my desktop system, so I haven't had a reason to pick up the monitor in years. And the desk seems to handle it just fine. >> or I >> can spend a hundred or so dollars to lose the ability to have a decent >> looking picture at more than one resolution and then say "Gee golly whiz! >> That sure is a really flat panel!!". Whoop-dee-doo. And popularity and >> trendyness are just non-issues. > > I think your eyes are more important than your ability to fiddle with > resolution. Everyone always seems to be very vague on that issue. Given real, reliable, non-speculative evidence that CRTs are significantly (and not just negligibly) worse on the eyes, I could certainly be persuaded to replace my CRT when I can actually afford to. Now I'm certainly not saying that such evidence isn't out there, but FWIW, I have yet to come across it. > Besides, this whole changing the resolution thing is a consequence of > using crappy software. What you want is set the resolution to the maximum > and do the rest in software. And guess what - at their maximum, CRT > monitors suck compared to flat panels. > Agreed, but show me an OS that actually *does* handle that reasonably well. XP doesn't. Win7 doesn't. Ubuntu 9.04 and Kubuntu 10.10 don't. (And I'm definitely not going back to OSX, I've had my fill of that.) > Heck this is unbelievable... I spend time on the relative merits of flat > panels vs. CRTs. I'm outta here. > You're really taking this hard, aren't you?
