Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Johan Kullstam wrote: I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For me, it was an optimal size and weight. The current offerings are all inferior - they are heavier, have less vertical screen dimension and worse resolution. And

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 30. 12. 2010 06:58:42 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:58:42 -0600 Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Hello Stan, You're a member of a super-minority Johan. The majority of the marketplace wants wide screen, which is why you're finding little or The market wants what the market gets is more true than The market

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Johan Kullstam
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com writes: Johan Kullstam wrote: I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For me, it was an optimal size and weight. The current offerings are all inferior - they are heavier, have less vertical screen

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:58:42AM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-29 Thread Johan Kullstam
Gilbert Sullivan whirly...@comcast.net writes: On 12/28/2010 09:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: It's also horrible for web browsing, and for many other tasks. It actually only has two uses I can think of: widescreen movies and side-by-side document viewing. Given that movies are best viewed on large

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For me, it was an optimal size and weight.

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-29 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:25:19 -0500 Johan Kullstam kullstj...@verizon.net dijo: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For me, it was an

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-29 Thread Doug
On 12/30/2010 12:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Johan Kullstam put forth on 12/29/2010 11:25 PM: Good for you. My gripe is that one can no longer choose. It's shortscreen or nothing. I had an old thinkpad t42 with a 14 1440x1050 and it rocked. It weighed only 4.5 lbs even with cd drive. For

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Seg, 27 Dez 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I built my folks a new PC last year (Athlon II X2 Rigor 2.8 w/ ATI north bridge video) and got them a 24 Asus widescreen LCD to go with it. Dad is 73 Mom is 68. Dad wears trifocals and Mom bifocals. No matter what font size (WinXP) I selected, the

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Ma, 28 dec 10, 09:13:00, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: I don't know how exactly it is done, but Linux takes into account the actual size of the display (which is reported along its supported resolutions) and not only the resolution to determine font sizes (and maybe icon sizes or other

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 12. 2010 08:24:22 je George napisal(a): If you do your work in text mode, why do you want a widescreen monitor? Widescreen is good for films but horrible when it comes to reading, which is what you normally use your computer for. It's also horrible for web browsing, and for many

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 12/28/2010 09:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: It's also horrible for web browsing, and for many other tasks. It actually only has two uses I can think of: widescreen movies and side-by-side document viewing. Given that movies are best viewed on large TV sets anyway, the usefulness of widescreen

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 12. 2010 15:49:26 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): On 12/28/2010 09:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: It's also horrible for web browsing, and for many other tasks. It actually only has two uses I can think of: widescreen movies and side-by-side document viewing. Given that movies are best

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 19:11:28 +0100, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 28. 12. 2010 15:49:26 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): On 12/28/2010 09:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: It's also horrible for web browsing, and for many other tasks. It actually only has two uses I can think of: widescreen movies and

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:46:38PM EST, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Chris Jones put forth on 12/27/2010 7:00 PM: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: [..] When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention to

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-27 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: Running Lenny updated. I'm wondering what I lose if I switch to a large wide screen monitor. I currently have a regular 17 Viewsonic (VP171s). Works fine, but since my eyes are getting older, I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: [..] When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention to native resolution. I agree. And the highest you can get. Look, 17 displays tend to use the same resolution (dots

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-27 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Chris Jones put forth on 12/27/2010 7:00 PM: On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 10:57:31AM EST, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:30:57 -0500, Mark Neidorff wrote: [..] When it comes to LCD/TFT, you have to pay attention to native resolution. I agree. And the highest you can get. Not

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-27 Thread George
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Mark Neidorff m...@neidorff.com wrote: I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25 monitors on the market. snip 2. Are there monitors that do not support text mode out there?  I'm asking because I do as much work on my server as possible in text mode, only

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-24 Thread godo
On 12/24/2010 04:30 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi Folks, Running Lenny updated. I'm wondering what I lose if I switch to a large wide screen monitor. I currently have a regular 17 Viewsonic (VP171s). Works fine, but since my eyes are getting older, I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25

Re: Monitor question

2010-12-24 Thread John Foster
On 12/24/2010 9:30 AM, Mark Neidorff wrote: Hi Folks, Running Lenny updated. I'm wondering what I lose if I switch to a large wide screen monitor. I currently have a regular 17 Viewsonic (VP171s). Works fine, but since my eyes are getting older, I'm tempted by the crop of wide screen 25

Re: Monitor Question: 20 Wide

2006-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/21/06 06:58, Chris wrote: Hello, Can anyone make any suggestions for 20 flatscreen monitors? How can I tell if my Graphics Hardware will support the monitors resolution. 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 for instance. man radeon contains no

Re: Monitor Question: 20 Wide

2006-10-21 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:58:33 +0200, Chris wrote: How can I tell if my Graphics Hardware will support the monitors resolution. 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 for instance. man radeon contains no information about supported resolutions. I can tell you that my 9200 three years ago supported

Re: Monitor Question: 20 Wide

2006-10-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Chris wrote: Hello, Can anyone make any suggestions for 20 flatscreen monitors? How can I tell if my Graphics Hardware will support the monitors resolution. 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 for instance. man radeon contains no information about supported resolutions.

Re: Monitor Question: 20 Wide

2006-10-21 Thread Chris
On Saturday 21 October 2006 18:55, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, Chris wrote: Hello, Can anyone make any suggestions for 20 flatscreen monitors? How can I tell if my Graphics Hardware will support the monitors resolution. 1600x1200 or 1680x1050 for instance. man radeon