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50 inch monitor.
- rokhayakebe 20y agoA big LCD HDTV. hook up computer box to it. Hook up a wireless keyboard to it, Next thing you know Reading YC news from the couch.
- reitzensteinm 20y agoGood, but even full 1080p LCD TVs only have 1920x1080 so it's basically equivilant to a 23/24/26/27" LCD monitor. Not too special for actually working on. I'm running 1920x1200 + 1200x1920 and you would have to pry the second monitor out of my cold, dead hands.
- vlad 20y agoIs it the Dell 2407?
- reitzensteinm 20y agoYep.
- vlad 20y agoDon't you feel the monitor, in vertical orientation, destroying your eyes? It is painful to look at, like an old 15-inch CRT monitor from 1997.
- reitzensteinm 20y agoNo, not at all, quite the opposite. I've used many CRT and LCD monitors in the past and this is by far the nicest to look at. The only caveat (and I presume this is what you're getting at since you mentioned vertical orientation) is that when ClearType or similar is turned on it turns the whole thing into an awful mess since the orientation of the subpixels is different (unless your OS can handle two monitors having different settings). Internet explorer, for example, is totally unusable (well, more than usual) on the right hand monitor.
- far33d 20y agoI've got a 30" display at work. It's amazing how much better than two monitors it is.
- reitzensteinm 20y agoI guess you're running OS X? Microsoft might be 'dead', but their crappy OS that was designed around 800x600 lives on :(
- far33d 20y agoactually, fedora.
- reitzensteinm 20y agoAh. What window manager are you using, and are you tweaking it in any particular way?
- far33d 20y agoI've used both fvwm2 and metacity without any special tweaking. Had to abandon fvwm2 b/c for some bizarre reason it just won't display firefox in fedora core 5, and netscape 4 just wasn't cuttin' it anymore.
- jward 20y agoMy roomate is CTO for a company that builds giant kiosks. Every so often I go in and help him out. The workstation I was at last time had two 42" plasma's and a 50" LCD. The things are 1080p, so not too shabby, but in general they're just big. My 21" LCD I use has a higher resolution. I'd rather see more data than see the same data bigger. My glasses aren't just to improve my nerd cred.