Hardware recommendations, please

[ted leslie]

your right on about the dimension, there is little use for wide screen except for movies,
eevrything else on web is portrait,
i got a HP 30" and you just take out the 4 bolts on the back, 
rotate, and i have a 30" portrait monitor,


on a different note,
watch out fir burn in, i thought
burn in was virtually impossible on LCD, and from what i read,
it sort of is,
but on the HP (googling, i see it as a know issue),
leave your computer screen on  (with image) for >12 hours, 
and it will leave a bit of residue there,
do that for days (like i did), and now i have what looks like a "stain"
where i had my background image :(

i am thinking of getting a another hp 30" and having a nvidia twin view set up (to both).
i also find having more of a square set up (or portait), give best view of all the data,
with respect to not having to do a lot of head movement.

-tl

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:17:00 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> | From: Chris F.A. Johnson <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org>
> 
> |    I am also planning to buy an LCD monitor in the 22" to 24" range,
> |    perhaps
> |    <http://www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?do=ShowProduct&cmd=pd&pid=022917&cid=888.MT.863>.
> | 
> |    What do I look for?
> 
> I like 24" 1920x1200 monitors.  That's as as many pixels as you can
> drive without Dual Link DVI.  Dual Link is getting more common but is
> not universal.
> 
> On principle, I don't like these new even-wider-screen 24" monitors.
> 1920x1080 cuts down in the dimension I care about most.  On the plus
> side, it is the highest standard HDTV resolution, but I don't care.
> 
> There are different kinds of LCD technology.  All the cheap ones use
> TN panels.  I'm not really sure why that is inferior, but I'd figure
> that out before buying one that I intended to use for hours on end.
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