LCD panels

[Edward Glowacki]

Quoted from Mark Szidik on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 12:00:26PM -0400:
> 
> Dual 15" LCD's is a good idea.  I have dual head setup on my
> Linux box at home already. Lets see two 15" screens at 1024 W +
> 1024 = 2048 pixels across.  Thats pretty awesome.  That even
> beats my favorite LCD: the SGI 1600SW[1] which is 1600 x 1024.

You can get 15" 1600x1200 LCD displays on laptops now, which is
pretty cool.  Also, just for the sake of argument, 15" Viewsonic
LCD (model VG150, 1024x768 resolution) shows up at $475 on shopper.com,
so two of them would only be $950... ;)

> Here is my whole story.  I am getting my annual bonus from work
> of $1200.  I wanted to get an LCD for about $800 and then use the
> other $400 for system upgrades.  My K6-2 450 is feeling a bit
> slow lately.  I wanted to get a new MB + Athlon 1Ghz, but my LCD
> price keeps creeping up and up.  Oh, what a dillemma....

$1200 is almost enough to go mobile!!! ;)  That way you'd get an
LCD screen too as part of the deal! ;)  I don't recall if you have
a laptop or not, and I'm not sure if it's really what you'd want
anyways, but just for reference, my laptop has a 14" 1400x1050 LCD
display w/ 8mb ATI video, PIII 700mhz, 192mb RAM, 20gb disk, 10/100
ethernet, 8x DVD, USB, S-video out, 2 PCMCIA slots, and a big
battery and it was only around $1850+tax+shipping.  It's not quite
1ghz w/ 17" LCD, but it sure is a lot easier to carry around, and
it even plays Unreal Tournament fairly well... ;)

> at buy.com for $1242 - 30 cupon + free shipping, starting
> to sound really tempting.  Only problem is I don't have a
> offically supported video card.

That's easy enough to solve... ;)  Of course it costs money. =(
Can you tell I like spending other people's money? ;)


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