[sllug-members]: new monitor

[Paul Koshevoy]

Steve Dibb wrote:
> I'm going to be buying a new monitor pretty soon, and was looking to
> see if anyone had any advice on what to look for or avoid.  My main
> concern is to get something that will go easy on my eyes, since my old
> ones have been botherning mine a bit.
>
> This is the best thing I've found so far for a not too high price, a
> ViewSonic *VP2030b Black 20.1" 8ms LCD Monitor*
>
> http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16824116371
>
> Steve
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If you want to future-proof your purchase, get something that supports
1920x1200 resolution. This way, you'll be able to watch high definition
content at full resolution. I recommend you consider these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2000190020+1109909240&Subcategory=20&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=

Personally, I recently bought an Apple Cinema HD 23" monitor and I
couldn't be happier: http://www.apple.com/displays/specs.html

Although, I had to get a "new" graphics card to support it -- $70 ATI
Radeon 9600XT from newegg. The old GeForce 256 card sort of worked with
this monitor -- in the graphics mode, at full resoltion, but it didn't
display any text when booting or when switching to the Linux text
console. I guess it treated the DVI connected monitor as a second head
in the dual head setup, so it sent all the text to the "first" head even
though there was nothing connected to the DSUB port.

    Paul.