OT: Samsung 2343 monitor

[Giles Orr]

Hi Dave.

2009/12/28 Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>:
> Giles, would you suggest that monitor to someone else thinking of
> buying it? With the difficulties or is it not worth the trouble?

It's a lovely display, and quite high resolution, at a reasonable
price.  It's a very wide ratio, hope you like that.  The controls are
definitely a bit of a curse: unlike a hardware button, you can trigger
them by getting pretty much any part of your anatomy in range of the
lower right bezel.  And you can't find them in the dark by feel
(although random stuff may pop up on the screen as you grope around
and trigger the wrong ones).  I wouldn't buy another one, but I guess
I don't hugely regret it either: I can't afford a more expensive
monitor and this is the only way I can get anything past the 1920x1080
mark.  I can see that some people might be fine with the controls - or
even think that they were really cool.  Your call.

Take a look at the photo at http://www.gilesorr.com/forOthers/ - not
sure how much it'll help, but the point is this is a smooth plastic
bezel with icons: nothing tactile at all.  (The photo is transient and
will vanish in a week or a month.)

> On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> 2009/12/27 James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>:
>>> Phillip Mills wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 2009-12-27, at 9:13 AM, James Knott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got the converter on the HDMI input, my main computer on DVI and a
>>>>> KVM switch on the VGA input.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I've been wanting a LCD screen to attach to my laptop when I'm using it at
>>>> my desk.  I have a DVI (female) connector for the computer -- DVI-D (dual
>>>> link) according to the Wikipedia diagrams.
>>>>
>>>> Dumb question: Do the monitors come with cables for attaching to their DVI
>>>> input?  (I've read a couple of boxes without it being clear.)  If not, is
>>>> there a standard kind of connector that I would need to match?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> My monitor came with both DVI & VGA cables.  I had to buy the HDMI cable
>>> though, as the converter came with component video cables.
>>
>> The Samsung I just bought also came with both DVI and VGA cables.  The
>> VGA cable is the thinnest I've ever felt, but does work.

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