Comments on: Victory! http://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:39:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dossy http://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 dossy Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:52:34 +0000 #comment-2523 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. :-) 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. :-)

]]> By: Rich http://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 Rich Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:26:27 +0000 #comment-2522 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". 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”.

]]> By: ptomblin_lj http://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 ptomblin_lj Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:06:29 +0000 #comment-2521 I'm kind of partial to the SGI 24" widescreen CRT sitting on my desk right now. 1600x1200, 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. 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.

]]> By: dossy http://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 dossy Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:03:21 +0000 #comment-2520 What you want is a <a href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/monitor_2007fp?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh">Dell UltraSharp 2007FP 20.1-inch LCD monitor</a>, which does 1600x1200 @ 60 Hz. They seem to be selling for $420 USD these days. 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.

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