hey both lg and samsung are good but in my personal opinion samsung consumes a lil bit more elec than lg but has a bit more cleareance than lg phillips monitor is costly as compared to other 2 but never had the chance to use it if u can spare a lil more dough then i suggest go for samsung 17" thats the best i have worked on it
rgds amitabh >From Amitabh Das ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sayamindu Dasgupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] Need ur opinions re:hardware > ho! > > On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 09:27, Soumyadip Modak wrote: > > We still have a monochrome monitor. My dad wants to get a colour monitor > > of about 14" or 15" size. Which company to go in for LG, Samsung or > > Philips? I was leaning towards philips, but somebody told me that spares > > for philips monitors are scarcely available in Kolkata. Can u people > > help me (us) :-) decide. > > me using a samtron 55v which works perfectly - no problem at all. > no idea regarding philips monitor > > > > Re hardware, dad was thinking of upgrading the system. We presently have > > an intel celeron 400mhz on an i440lx based mobo, with 64 mb sdram and a > > 2 mb cirrus logic 5446 card and an isa sound card. What do u think of > > the following combination for upgrade: > > AMD Athlon XP 1600 or 1700 > > 128mb ddrram > > nvidia nforce 220d based mobo with 8 or 16 mb mem shared for integrated > > video. > > > > Are there any issues re: integrated video and sound, in linux? Nvidia > > has quite good support for linux drivers i think. Will the integrated > > video work? Do i have to specify the amt of system ram (probably 120mb) > > everytime at bootup? Plz mail me ur opinions. > > > > i belive that the nforce is quite a good choice > just increase the ram if possible :D - since u r sharing the ram, 256 > will be quite good (expecially for multiple x sessions...;) > kde and gnome running at the same time.. :^P > nvidia has quite good support for linux, but as rms said to me in the > "debate" we are having, > > "Proprietary drivers are not a solution in the Free World. " > > :D > but the x drivers are quite good > -cheers- > sdg > > > > -- > Sayamindu Dasgupta > Crazy GNU/Linux-er > http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu > > > > ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### > > Sub : Sha-bang ! LOST #163 > > The sha-bang (#!) at the beginning of a script is actually a 2 > byte "magic number" which designates an executable script. See > 'man magic' for details. Tells the system that ensuing lines > are to be fed to the command interpreter indicated. > > ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/help/faq_list.html
