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Victory!

Yay, I have my big old 21″ CRT monitor back. The desktop guys weren’t that surprised; apparently I’m not the first to find the 1280×1024 worse than dealing with a grumpy CRT. So I think I’ll hold onto this guy until it just doesn’t work at all anymore, and then look into specifically requesting a particular monitor model to keep 1600×1200 around.

Comments 4

  1. dossy wrote:

    What you want is a Dell UltraSharp 2007FP 20.1-inch LCD monitor, which does 1600×1200 @ 60 Hz. They seem to be selling for $420 USD these days.

    Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 10:03 am
  2. ptomblin_lj wrote:

    I’m kind of partial to the SGI 24″ widescreen CRT sitting on my desk right now. 1600×1200, 85Hz. I think they cost about $10,000 when they were new. But this one couldn’t be calibrated any more, so the customer didn’t want it any more, ergo my desk.

    Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 11:06 am
  3. Rich wrote:

    Yeah, that’s probably what I’ll request if this monitor gets unusably bad instead of just occasionally flaky (especially since we’re a Dell shop on the desktop already). Even still, I like the LCD/CRT mix better than a pair of LCDs (one’s in the laptop), because that way I can configure subpixel smoothing correctly on one and ignore the other.

    This time around I made the mistake of just saying “my monitor is flaky, please fix”, not knowing that “fix” now means “replace with low-res LCD” instead of “replace with identical refurb CRT”.

    Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 11:26 am
  4. dossy wrote:

    Given the delay, you’d better put in the “hardware refresh” request now asking for an “upgrade” to the new 2007FP … and by the time your CRT gets unusably bad, you might just get the 2007FP in the nick of time. :-)

    Posted 27 Jun 2006 at 11:52 am