OT: Samsung 2343 monitor

[James Knott]

Giles Orr wrote:
> 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.
>
>    
The LG has a LED by the power "button", so it's easy to find the 
controls in the dark.  You just have to move a finger over that area to 
make the other LEDs turn on and then touch the "button".

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