How big is your primary monitor?
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Discuss in the forums ReplyWhat's with all these polls anyway Bindi? You guys getting a Market Research contract :p
I use a 2405 as my primary screen, and I'm considering a second or a 2707.
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woah there, nelly! 200"!? Did you have to take the roof off your house to get it in?
I'm happy with my 2005fpw.
Just kicking the community up a notch. It's good to know for reviews so we can tailor how we write with what people most want or have.
We got nearly 450 replies to the PCB one so we're gonna try to do more :)
On my new lappy, I've got a 15.4" Ultrasharp Dell screen, and on the old PC at home, I've got a 12" Acer CRT 'Gamer Station' that I won off PCZone in 01 or 02.
Only thing I'd change this for would be a 24" or larger widescreen LCD screen that cost a reasonable ammount of cash. So it ain't getting changed anytime soon.
20" at work
Hopefully getting a 24" at home soon.
20" (diagonal) visible.
25.5" (diagonal) inc. bezel.
I like the beast but I'm thinking of picking up one of those fancy 30" Dell jobbies (just sold one of my PCs so it's a real possibility now :D).
I have a 24" and a 20", but it's not a competition :p
hahaha!!
Well, my phone has like, a 1 inch screen, so i win :P
Damnit Foiled!
Happy with my 2405, but I'd like to get a 37" 1080p Westinghouse.
Aye... but that's for the refurbished version you've linked to in the 'Bargain Bin' Doug... and not everybody is happy to buy refurbished units - with just a 30 day warranty ;)
It's more tempting to do so though, when you consider that a brand new 27" 2707WFP costs £615.00 / £722.62
Personally... I'd rather pay £160 more for two 24" 2407WFP's
But each to their own ;)
Which one's that then? The BenQ (with HDMI) perhaps?
30" is for when im doing graphics ... (PS work)
22" for browsing internet
19" for pr0n (not as easy to get caught, yet still enjoyable)
15" for burning music and checking F@H stats ... ;)
From an old thread about how you use mutliple displays.
More than enough screen real estate for me (for now :D)
And another here, my desk has to sit away from the wall at the monitor end to fit it on, and the desk is bending with the 30KG pressign down on it, but for £25 it worth not having any room to put a chair :D
(I put "other" in the poll)
I have a 19" widescreen, and know that they are much more comfortable.
And cheaper.
H.B.
H.B.
Windows sees it as one display and i treat it as such, so i voted other.
Graphic Design does have its perks... :D
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Anyhoo, single liner is 19" CRT @ 1600*1200
I want to go widescreen eventually, however like Tim mentioned, I don't want to sacrifice vertical size, which means "22inch min. I also don't usually have high end graphics cards so 1920x panels are out of the question. It would seem then that 22" WS @1680 is the way to go.
However I'm waiting until the panels at that size/res improve (if they ever do) as the ones right now aren't too hot.
Aggies
I also considered a 26" acer, but my viewing distance is so small that I much rather take the 24" with the same resolution...
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With also 3x 15"tft and 1X 5foot screen with projector, as secondry :D
'Cos when surfin' teh netz, most webpages are longer than they are wide.
I like to say: born to be wide
19" VX924 too
at work I use dual 19" dells. to play WoW.
I just binned my 19" IBM CRT and now use my Samsung LCD for my pc using DVI to HDMI with desktop at 1920 x 1200 and I am very surprised I can run CSS at this res too with a ATI X1600 PRO AGP.
On Stand before Wall Mounting
Wall Mounted
Can anyone explain why my TV is advertised with a res of 1920 x 1080 but then I set my desktop at this res I have a black border all around and to eliminate this I have to set my desktop to 1920 x 1200. I mean if my TV has a res of 1920 x 1080, then were do the extra 120 pixels come from on the vertical.
how do account for a 50" plasma as a second head on one system but it's only 1366x768 resolution?
Ive got 2x 20"
1 dell 20" (the early model) and a LG L204WT
I only use 1 while gaming though (the dell) except WoW where i enable both, or if I'm programming or something, which is what i bought the other screen for
Ive also got a cheapo AG Neovo 19" screen connected to my second computer, which is a media center PC, great for watching TV while playing games :)
H.B.
17" CRT on my 2nd pc and either a 28" or 32" SD WS TV for the Wii browser (depending on which room it's set up in).
17" Wide Notebook, same resolution as a 24" :)
14" Laptop. Actually come to think of it I haven't gotten higher than 1024x768 yet :(
Though im going to try and get a 3007 later on.
Sam
Joe
Currently have a Dell 22" WS @ home BUT pre-ordered this: (link) :D
(I guess my 7600GT isn't going to cut it much longer :'( )
i'm kind of sad that there are no laptop size choices.
Viewsonic P95F+-2 = best monitor EVER for FPS games (1280x960 @ 100'V'hz & 100'H'hz)
12" Wide on my XPSM1210
24" dell most of the time, but some nights its my 60" projector screen :D :D
My secondary is an old 15" AGNeovo TFT.
I'm not alone!
LVM-42W2 FTW.
The Westies are getting nice and cheap now too. Can find the 42 under $900 from time to time. Very tempting.....
secondary- 51 inch 80 kilo crt
Ofcourse I want a Samsung 226BW (22") but I still live with my parents and also my room cant take such a big screen... So I have to wait till I'm living on myself.
Work
19" and a 17" actually use the 17 as primary and use the 19" as a scondary as it can display more info to refernce from
I have a 19" as my main and i voted accordingly.
I only found out about that 'Digital' version, just a week after I'd splashed out £180 for the standard TripleHead :( :(
(decreasing popularity)
19"..................85..........18.97%
17"..................76..........16.96%
20" Wide..........69..........15.40%
24" Wide..........53..........11.83%
22" Wide..........36............8.04%
19" Wide..........34............7.59%
Other...............27............6.03%
21" Wide..........15............3.35%
21"...................17............3.79%
15"...................13............2.90%
20"...................11............2.46%
30" Wide...........11............2.46%
26" Wide.............1............0.22%
23" Wide.............0.................0%
27" Wide.............0.................0%
Why, oh, why, are 19inchers so popular?
H.B.
I think this laptop is also 15"
No widescreen or other malarkey for me. At least not until I can afford a nice HDTV.
900$? where? i want ANOTHER!
The one I've counted is the wife's, a 21" Diamondtron CRT
Yet, those 30" and 24" havn't moved much in price terms.
2) Higher resolution = a bigger video card = double whammy to the wallet.
3) 19" is just nicer to use than a 17": Almost every 17" I've seen was running at lower than hardware res because otherwise you hear "but that way I can't read it" - and Windows font scaling is almost useless.
Just keep an eye out. Deal sites and all. Fatwallet had a run of deals on the 37's for awhile. The 42's aren't as popular but still get some attention. They've popped up in the last two woot-offs for $1055 shipped as well. Man if only I had jumped on that.... Another thing to watch is which stores are clearing them out. I got mine when the local worst buy was selling the last of their stock. Took an hour and haggling with three people but they knocked of 400. A little luck and finding the one dude in the store who was just told by his manager to never take no for an answer. ;) I don't really go to hard ocp but I know the westies have a religious-like following over there. I'd bet they track deals all the time.
2 high dollar projectors at about 60ft each next to each other. Then at the station they are run from there is another 8x2 (16) 21" LCD's on a huge mount paneled together. It's pretty sweet. Then the recording studio I go to has a 6x1 (6) LCD setup which I think are 17's.
Same here w/ IBM 21".
So true, I'm still running a 6800GT, it was fine on the 17" I had before the 24" widescreen; but now I have to turn down some settings to have the newer
games run smoothly. =D
Also, my X800 won't play most things on a moniter anybigger than a 19"
Bindi, what sort of screen/s do you have?
ok I know it's cheating as it's 3 monitors and not one but you don't notice the bezel between monitors and to be honest I am so used to having 3 screens that I won't go back to one again(I had to for a week when my TH2G died one week shy of a year,got replaced for free )
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3x 15" = 45"? 3x 19" = 57"
They must have damned big bezels, if you've 'only' got 45" of screen to play with?
so if you have 3x19" the diagonal isn't 3x19"
hazardous, since I am not at home I had to work it out from first principles
(X*X)+(Y*Y)=(Z*Z)
X being screen width and Y being screen height and Z being diagonal
first time I got it wrong as I forgot height was the same and I ended up with 55" and not 45" :D
2) Holy thread resurrection Batman (If I didn't say it someone else would)
3) I always thought this thread should have also have had a resolution component since most WS TVs have lower resolution than much smaller monitors, and projectors are even worse.
80" optoma hd720x for the pvr :)