Bruce Johnson wrote:
> 
> On Mar 20, 2009, at 9:21 PM, tonycd wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>My old 17" CRT still works fine, but I'm getting greedy at home for
>>the same convenient screen real estate I have at the office (I often
>>need to display two Word docs at once).
>>
>>I see 22" monitors for $140 that sound pretty good. I am VEEERRRRY
>>price-sensitive, and this is like the sirens singing to me.
>>
>>I also read that one monitor advertised it was "Windows Vista-ready"
>>and had the drivers for that OS. (Drivers? For a monitor?)
> 
> 
> More than likely this is color profiles for the monitor.
> 
> 
>>a question I never even thought of: are some LCDs incompatible with OS
>>X?
> 
> 
> None as far as I know. Whether features such as autorotation work  
> (flipping it from landscape to portrait orientation) is dependent on  
> the vide drivers, not the monitor. You don't mention what computer you  
> have, and what video card you have...there are monitors on the market  
> today that won't work with some of the very old Video cards in the  
> earliest OS X compatible computers.
> 



Yes, I made the move nearly three years ago.  Bought a Samsung 22" and 
it worked out of the box and I have an acient G4 with only 16MB VRAM.

The "real estate" is great!

JT



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