New Monitor
Well I finally got sick of my small MacBook screen (useful while traveling but no fun at home when you have a lot of windows open). The new monitor is a 26″ Westinghouse LCD with a max resolution of 1920×1080. The color and brightness are outstanding and a hunt for dead pixels turned up none.
With the new screen I can more realistically deal with multiple large windows than before with my small laptop screen. I’m considering also getting a DVI-enabled KVM to allow my work laptop to easily be plugged in.
With the new monitor in place I feel like I’ve breathed some new life into my MacBook — it’s still plenty fast enough for most of what I do (the exception is running a Windows XP virtual session at a realistic speed). The big memory hog on this machine is still Microsoft Office (no surprise) which I only really use because it’s the only way to check my work email on this machine (using Entourage).
Overall, I’m quite pleased. Our main TV is a Westinghouse and despite it’s “off-name” brand for TVs and sneering remarks from the “big name” brand owners, I’ve been quite impressed with them.
Andrew Flanagan on May 30th 2008 in Geekiness
RK responded on 30 May 2008 at 7:06 pm #
Very nice! If I had room for a monitor anywhere I would do the same. Let us know how it works out in the long run.
Kenneth F. responded on 03 Jun 2008 at 1:28 pm #
Now that’s a big screen dude. You can even post life-size photos of your children on that screen.
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