On Tuesday 13 Apr 2010, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > On 04/13/2010 11:47 AM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote: > I had also searched a lot, but only the cheapo monitors are available > in Nehru Place and no 1600x1200 is available. They refer to it as > "square" monitors and say that they've stopped coming long time back > as all prefer wide screen ones. I say, did they ever get a choice? > > As a last resort I went to Dell site. They gave me a quote of Rs. > 21000 for a 21" 1600x1200 monitor. Not sure if they still sell it.
Ewww! For that sort of money I'd have to put my whole kingdom followed by my wife at stake! > > As an aside, monitors designed only to view HD movies suck > > big-time. Don't coders and techies use monitors anymore? > > Totally agree on this. I didn't know making a higher vertical > resolution was more expensive (and cumbersome?) than higher > horizontal resolution. I have stuck to my 17" 1280x1024 screen - > atleast it's bigger than 1440x900 and marginally smaller than > 1920x1080. With the current state of affairs, I'm also re-looking at my monitor requirement. You're right, the 17" at 1280x1024 is doing fine for the moment, sticking to that unless something really exceptional comes out. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [email protected] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
