Re: What tools to buy?
The reason that you want flat-panels, rather than a pair (or
more) of CRTs, is that most of us work in cubicles with
limited space. One massive monitor is bad enough. It's very
difficult to place _two_ large monitors such that they sit
side-by-side and can be pushed far enough back from your
face. Yes, younger eyes can focus really close, but you'll
get old, just like the rest of us... besides, if the array
is too close, you'll need to swivel your neck to see everything
and you don't want that. :-)
Flat panel LCDs don't have that big protuberance in
the back, that bumps into your office/cubicle walls.
Another reason for flat panels - I find in my office that any CRT monitor I
place in the crux of the "L" looks fuzzy, but if I move it to the ends it
looks fine. I'm pretty sure this is due to electromagnetic interference from
the other monitors in the area. It's especially obvious when other people
turn their monitors on and my display wiggles for a couple of seconds. With
LCD monitors, this never happens due to the way they create the image.
However, if you are going to get LCD monitors, be careful about the
resolutions they support. LCDs look super-crisp at their native resolution,
but very fuzzy at any other resolution. So, you want a native resolution
that gives you as much screen real estate as you want but doesn't make
everything so small that you can't see it without straining your eyes. How
large that is depends on your eyesight (for example, I have a laptop at home
that has a 15.4" screen at 1920x1200 resolution. I'm fine with this, but
some people absolutely cannot use it because everything is too small. This
is definitely a YMMV area, so if you can try using a monitor for a few
minutes before you buy it).
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Until next time...
Kevin Amery
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