Hardy Hardy Har... Me Has A New 19' WS Monitor

my Chrissy present to me.....

Wednesday, December 26, 2007 by starkers | Discussion: Personal Computing

Yeah, was out earlier and noticed my fav puter store was open....huh, on Boxing Day??? Well I went in to wish Pat, the owner, a great day and a happy New Year if I didn't get to see him beforehand, etc, etc.

Well, as always, the conversation gravitated towards computers and etc... and the next thing I know I'm walking out with a new ViewSonic 19' LCD monitor for AU$250. I think Pat was just as surprised as I was... he was showing/telling me about this new Gigabyte mobo that'd go perfectly with an Intel Core Duo I've had my eye on for a while now... and the next thing he knows is that I'm handing over the cash for the monitor... no warning or indication I was even interested....

OK, so it was an impulse buy, but I'm as happy as a hog in muck with my purchase and just had to come crow about it here cos I felt like so much crap yesterday.

Oh, and before anyone says: "Why didn't you get a bigger one?"...my eyes are real close together and I wouldn't be able to see both sides of the screen...'specially when I gits meself all cross eyed on the Playboy site.

Nah, truth is, a larger one wouldn't fit in the pigeon hole on my desk, not with my speakers as well, so the 19" is perfect and just what I wanted... and my regular 19" Samsung is now hooked up to another rig I just finished assembling from mostly old parts, just got to load XP Home and Ubuntu on it and I have me a spare to play with.

Well that just about covers it for now, so see ya's 'round like a cartwheel.
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Gideon MacLeish
Reply #1 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:10 PM
Oh, and before anyone says: "Why didn't you get a bigger one?"...my eyes are real close together and I wouldn't be able to see both sides of the screen...'specially when I gits meself all cross eyed on the Playboy site.


Yeah, there's nothing worse than making a set of "A's" look like "DD's". I mean, sure it's good for a time, but when you get to the "DD's", it gives you dain bramage.

Congrats on the new monitor.



JewelCG
Reply #2 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:56 PM
Congrats!

I've got a 19" Viewsonic LCD too and I love it. Great color and clarity on it.
starkers
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:19 PM
Yeah, there's nothing worse than making a set of "A's" look like "DD's".


So very true...so there'll be no way any silicon is getting pumped into my monitor... me, I'll wait 'til a 44 incher comes along naturally.

BTW, I know a pair of nice DD's... Diane and Delvene Delaney, lovely girls they are, too.

I've got a 19" Viewsonic LCD too and I love it. Great color and clarity on it.


Yep, I'm enjoying mine a lot as well... absolutely perfect at the 1300 x 900 resolution.
Snowman
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:36 PM

Step up to the leaque of the big boys....

Philips 220ws (22" at 1600X1200)

Bebi Bulma
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:13 PM
Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen. And hey....1600x1200 isn't widescreen...
jamespaulp
Reply #6 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:53 PM
I have Dell 19" 1600x1200 at work and Gateway 21" 1680x1050 at home. Haven't tried connecting the PC to 60" Plasma @1920x1080.
vStyler
Reply #7 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 9:59 PM
Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen.


Ditto   24' 1920X1200   

Glad you got a new screen tho Starkers, 19' is really big enough, main reason I went so big was for work and because I got a killer deal on it.
ZubaZ
Reply #8 Wednesday, December 26, 2007 10:14 PM
Anyone wants to dpnate to the Zubaz fund for anythign bigger than a 17" CRT with a corner starting to go a bit red . . Let me know.  (

Congrats Starkers (and everyone else apparently)    
kona0197
Reply #9 Thursday, December 27, 2007 1:51 AM
Sounds like a battle of who has the biggest you know what in here.

I really don't care what you guys have.

Thanks for once again rubbing it in my face.

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #10 Thursday, December 27, 2007 5:24 AM
We really feel sorry for you and your possum's pecker...   
Erk.
Reply #11 Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:03 AM

Thanks for once again rubbing it in my face.

*sigh*

ok... 22" widescreen

^^ mine 

Gideon MacLeish
Reply #12 Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:18 AM
It's not how big it is, it's how you use it, right? LOL!

Leave me alone with my lousy 17 inch flat screen! LOL! At least it ain't a CRT!
kona0197
Reply #13 Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:28 AM
OK so I should have added this -
killajosh
Reply #14 Thursday, December 27, 2007 6:33 AM
Yeah, I'm happy with my 22" Samsung SyncMaster.....NON-widescreen......

It's not the shiznits, but like Gideon said....
At least it ain't a CRT!


Dr Guy
Reply #15 Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:30 AM
The 19 inchers have become almost commodities. Buy a dell and get a free 19" upgrade! I remember when they were selling 15" for $1k USD!

I bought a 19" when they were pricier, but have never regretted it. Until now. I have a 24" at work (long story on that one), and want one at home now!

Perhaps next year.

Now about those double Ds of yours......What do Ms. Starkers say about them?
starkers
Reply #16 Thursday, December 27, 2007 8:33 AM
Step up to the leaque of the big boys....

Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen.


I could always haul my 42" wide-screen TV over and hook my rig up to that... but then there'd be no room on my desk for all my other paraphanalia.

Besides, the have anything bigger than a 19", I'd have to remodel my desktop... and carpentry ain't one of my stronger points these days.. not when my saw would be a stay sharp knife, my hammer the heel of my shoe, and a screwdriver fashioned from an old baked beans tin lid.
starkers
Reply #17 Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:32 AM
A shot of my desktop with the new monitor...such as it is, not quite set up as I want it just yet. It'll do for the time being, tho... maybe that could be my New Years resolution - rearrange/tidy up my desk some.

Oh, and the pirate stuff...er, that was my mother's doing/getting, to go along with my cap'n starkers persona.

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #18 Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:33 AM
A pirate ship???? 
MadDeez
Reply #19 Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:38 AM
that's just far too damned sanitary.
starkers
Reply #20 Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:42 AM
A better shot...




A pirate ship????


Why not?? A pirate cap'n 'aves ter 'ave e's own transport... passers-by on tha high seas be too far n' few between fer ta be hitchhiking between ports.

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