[GTALUG] 40" 4k Philips Monitor for $699.95 at BestBuy, Jun. 8 and 9 only

[ted leslie]

Productivity gains!!! the best productivity gain in IT (assume you type a
lot) is the datahand keyboard, can be found for 4-5k$ now, i have two. But
there is a open source project that has been trying for years to copy the
original. Nothing like 90wpm and being able to type till your 95 without
CT, or RSI. It one of the few hw investments that over its life time could
repay 100K+$'s in productivity. Just cringe that if they break i would be
out  10k+$ to replace with good used ones :( but yeah  40"4k monitor and a
data hand is productivity supreme.

-tl

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 3:12 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay at dinamis.com>
wrote:

> On 08/06/16 02:45 PM, ted leslie wrote:
>
> I got the same monitor. Only worry was the frequency oscillation feature
> to achieve dimming, but I don't notice it, but some claim they do.
>
>
> I use the "SmartImage" feature to switch between modes every day. My
> monitor is in a room with plenty of natural light, too much sometimes, so
> I'll use it in the "SmartUniformity" mode during daylight hours and switch
> to "Economy" when it is dark outside. I do not notice any change in video
> quality when it is darker and I am usually pretty sensitive to flickering.
>
> Back joystick is a bit of a pain as I do flip back and forth between
> inputs.
> When my system goes to sleep, and it wakes up and i turn the monitor on,
> it sometime does the sync flicker (even goes black) and repeats and
> generally looks screwy for about 10 seconds,
> but once its running, never had any issue.
>
>
> I have seen the same behaviour with one difference. Infrequently, it will
> not sync on power on or wake up so I'll Ctrl-Alt-F4 to switch to a console,
> which will cause it to sync, and Ctrl-Alt-F1 back to X where it will sync
> without problems. I do not know if that is a monitor or video driver issue
> and again, it's so infrequent and the workaround so easy that it's a minor
> irritant, at best.
>
> Is well worth the money! The monitor is sooooo bit, that you have to
> really move eyes, or even turn head a bit, so certainly I doubt i would ever
> want bigger, accept that in having this monitor, I can now REALLY see the
> attraction of a curved monitor.
>
>
> I have had to fine-tune the distance of the monitor to find the sweet spot
> between having to move around to see the edges and being able to focus with
> my reading glasses. More fine-tuning with the prescription of reading
> glasses may help.
>
> I would have no interest in upgrading to say a 44"+ 4k monitor unless it
> was
> very curved so you don't have a distance issue as you look to the
> left/right edges over the closeness of the middle. In fact the odd person
> may even find the 40" to big, and want it to
> be curved. Of course one issue is you have to buy a expensive video card
> to use it, unless you happen to already have a 9 series.
>
>
> I paid $240 for my video card. Over the life of this system and for the
> productivity gains I got from going to 4k, it's well worth the price. I
> expect prices will drop on the lower end cards that can do 4k because a
> newer generation of cards, like the 1000 series, are coming on the market
> now.
>
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>
> Clifford Ilkay
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>
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