Monitor survey

[Kilroy]

With widescreen monitors now becoming mainstream, what are you running?

[sillywilly]

I have POS right now but I was thinking of getting t 24" lcd at futureshop that is 329 right now

[Kilroy]

I'm a dual monitor guy. If you work on a computer like I do, once you have tried a dual monitor setup you can never return to just one. I had 2 19" Viewsonic CRT's until today. I am now looking at 2 matching Samsung 22" widescreens! I feel like I am at a CSI lab! Thanks Agent 99!

The question though is more of a "user input request", since I have to follow trends when I consider how to allot screen space on the website. Even though you can't buy a CRT very easily anymore, there are stiill a ton of them out there!

[spackler]

1024x768, but I'm using a 4.5 year old laptop. Going to get an upgrade soonish.

[MusicMan]

laptop 15.4 inch 1280x800

[Kilroy]

Laptops are mostly widescreen now too. I really wonder how long it will be until 4:3 is in the minortiy for both compuers and TVs. The transition in computers will be way faster since good old CRT TV's can last for 20 years.

[Indio]

I have a 15'' Laptop, my son has a 20'' Samsung and Bugsy has a 22'' Samsung.

But still waiting for the day I can access the forum via my Blackberry!

[Golfbum]

ACER X193W LCD
19 inch widescreen
After using a 13 inch CRT this monitor made surfing the net a lot more fun
3 year warranty too

[Marcos]

I am using a Commodore 64.Seriously i have no idea what you guys are talking about.Not to savy around computers.

[big mac]

Following up from Marcos--contrary to popular belief; I am not on a Commador 64 or a Vic 20. My monitor says NEC MultiSync FE1250 with a bumch of little buttons and I have absolutly no idea what the original question means. But, I would not mind knowing as long as it does not take someone all day to teach me.

[hoolio]

Laptop is 1680 x 1050, work monitor is 1280 x 1024 and my home monitor is 1900 x 1440. I need a bigger monitor at work.

[lms]

Following up from Marcos--contrary to popular belief; I am not on a Commador 64 or a Vic 20. My monitor says NEC MultiSync FE1250 with a bumch of little buttons and I have absolutly no idea what the original question means. But, I would not mind knowing as long as it does not take someone all day to teach me.

Assuming you are not kidding, and are running windows, right click on your desktop background, select properties, in the window that pops up click the tab that says "settings", and it will tell you your display properties.

[big mac]

Assuming you are not kidding, and are running windows, right click on your desktop background, select properties, in the window that pops up click the tab that says "settings", and it will tell you your display properties.

Many thanks IMS--just found out I am in the majority This is easy when it's explained in english Wonder what else is in here have no fear I'm not going there---did it once and it cost 125.00 to reset everything

[fundonny]

15" laptop, HP Pavilion ze2000.

[Section Thirty One]

Cripes, I clicked on the wrong one.

My Dell 2007WFP (20") is 1680 x 1050.

[AndrewMGA]

Dual 19" Samsung CRT's each one @ 1600 X 1200.

[Hacker]

Dual LCD Samsung 22"ers @ work both running at 1600x1200 32 bit

19" Dell LCD @ home running at 1280 x 1024

[big mac]

Good grief--everyone is back to work---the lowly majority is gone

[jvincent]

laptop 15.4 inch 1280x800

Ditto.

[Kilroy]

I added 1200 x 800 laptop widescreen and put in the 2 that were posted in the thread.

[Indio]

I added 1200 x 800 laptop widescreen and put in the 2 that were posted in the thread.

Change mine to 1200 X 800 widescreen as well

[Kilroy]

Sorry Indio, what did you vote initially?

[Indio]

Sorry Indio, what did you vote initially?

1024 X 768 15 inch

[Kilroy]

OK fixed. Thanks!

I am suprised that the widescreen vote over 50% at 12 - 11 at this point.

[Indio]

I'm not surprised at all. The cost has come down so dramatically these past 2 years. Even at work where we are so conservative with computer equipment we have moved to all 19'' LCD widescreens that are essentially the same monthly cost as it was for the CRT's (we lease all of our equipment and the CRT's cost us about $6/mos for 36 months and the LCD's now cost us $7/mos for 26 months, with significant power consumption savings).

[Kilroy]

Great stuff. You see flat screens eveywhere, but they are not all widescreens. This is very interesting.

More votes!

[Kilroy]

Indio, what do you know about the power savings comparison? Got any links?

[Indio]

Indio, what do you know about the power savings comparison? Got any links?

Our Admin services division did a study and they determined with the number of monitors we had installed, the savings would more than pay for the upgrade costs. I will look and see if I can find the document. But be aware that they were using the figures provided by the manufacturers.