Monitor recommendation?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:04:46AM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> Financially I agree with Hugh: two good 23-24" Samsungs would be much
> cheaper than the Dell UltraSharp 30" I bought recently.  But I was
> sick to death of dealing with the "quirky" problems of proprietary
> dual head drivers and the Dell has made me very, very happy.  Single
> screen 2560x1600, lovely colours, and IMMENSE.  I don't think I've
> actually full-screened an app (other than a movie) since I bought the
> thing - it's overwhelming.

If I needed more space than a 24" 1920x1200 provides, I would go with a
single larger screen.  I have dealing with the bezel between two screens.
Not to mention trying to convince a lot of games not to spread across
both screens.  I run a 24" attached to my laptop, and that can get
annoying at times.  I mainly use the 24" to run a mythtv frontend,
while doing other things on the laptop screen.

> Given that it's summer, I should perhaps point out that the 30" Dell
> doubles nicely as a room heater.  I have a 24" Samsung (I bought it
> because it's got a higher res than 1920x1200 ... don't remember the
> numbers right now) that I like, I seem to recall it pulls about 25W.
> Dell lists the 30" UltraSharp as "110W(typical)" but I think it's more
> than that.  Fine during the winter but really unpleasant during the
> summer.  And not very environmentally friendly.

A sun 3/50 with 12MB ram makes a nice room heater.  The Dell is just a
tad warm. :)

Would be nice if they had LED backlights instead, but that doesn't seem
very common on IPS based screens yet for some reason.  Maybe the LED
backlights don't have proper colour handling yet.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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