I always used Viewsonic also. I have several monitors on my programming system connected using a Matrox video card.
There is something else to consider: Recently I got some monitor stands that allow me to have my monitors about 2 inches higher so that I would have more desk space and have things neater. The Viewsonic monitors have a large rounded frame so that you can't put 3 monitors side-by-side easily. I changed to Sceptre 22" monitors (259 at Costco) because they have a thin frame and they are perfect rectangles. Now my setup is very clean - like you see at some of the stock market places on TV. When you browse a table with many fields, it is great to be able to stretch the table across 3 or 4 monitors. Another thing to consider that someone else started is that the TV, movies and computers are converging. All monitors will be 1080P soon. The Sceptre 22" monitors from Costco have VGA, DVI and HDMI connectors. I recently got a new AMD processor, ABIT motherboard with Nvidia graphics and a HDMI connector. I will eventually convert all my equipment to this. Soon you will be able to get a PCI Express X16 graphics board with 4 or more HDMI connectors. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Whil Hentzen (Pro*)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:09 AM Subject: [NF] Shopping for a new monitor Hi gang, I've been using a pair of ViewSonic 19" flat panels with built-in speakers on my desk for several years. They're great. One is my Windows box; first W2K and now XP. The other is for my Linux box; first SuSE 9 and 10, and now Fedora 6. They've both run flawlessly since day one. Both are set at 12x10. It's now time to hand these monitors down to other folks and set myself up with some new toys. I was just going to get new versions of these guys, but then it struck me, hey, why not get greedy? What about 21" monitors? Or even bigger? They're so inexpensive now... But as I scan newegg, the rage seems to be widescreen monitors. Here are a couple of examples: ViewSonic 28" 3ms(GTG) HDMI W/ HDCP Widescreen LCD Monitor 1920 x 1200, 800:1, D-Sub HDMI ViewSonic 24" 8ms(GTG) HDMI W/ HDCP Widescreen LCD Monitor 1920 x 1200, 1000:1, D-Sub DVI HDMI ViewSonic 19" 2ms Widescreen, 1440x900, 700:1 (typ), 2000:1 (DCR), D-Sub DVI Questions: I don't seen any point to Widescreen. I'm not much of a 'watch movies on my comptuer' kind of guy. Anybody have another reason why a widescreen would be a good choice? 800:1 vs 1000:1 vs 700:1? Do I care? D-Sub DVI vs D-Sub DVI HDMI? Again, do I care? Dammit, Jim, I'm a programmer, not an artist. Whil [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
