I find the 22" sufficient if run at highest resolution 1680x1050. If you really need more space get a second one and run the machine in dual mode. I'm waiting for Apple to announce finally the new MacPro's to get one of them. It will be connected to a 24" Cinema Display and a 22" Zalman.
Jürgen - Jürgen Bosch Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute 615 North Wolfe Street, W8708 Baltimore, MD 21205 Phone: +1-410-614-4742 Lab: +1-410-614-4894 Fax: +1-410-955-3655 http://web.mac.com/bosch_lab/ On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Engin Ozkan wrote: > On 7/13/10 11:05 AM, Daniel Lietha wrote: >> Does anyone know if the ZM-M215W and ZM-M240W Zalman monitors work in >> 3D with Coot and Pymol (would use them on Mac OS10.6)? If so, does the >> increased resolution improve things compared to the ZM-M220W? >> Thanks, >> Daniel > Let me bring back to life the thread Daniel started two days ago. Do any > of the Zalman monitors related to ZM-M220W work with coot and pymol in > stereo mode (for linux)? We are looking for as large a monitor we can > buy, and at least one lab member finds it an offense to even consider > buying a 22-inch monitor. In the age of huge flat display TVs, it > appears that one cannot force others to look at small screens (somehow > smartphones are an exception to this). > > We can definitely use extra space on the monitor when we have all those > pymol, coot, ccp4i and phenix GUIs on, but we also want the stereo > option possible for that rare event. > > Thanks, > Engin > > -- > Engin Özkan > Post-doctoral Scholar > Howard Hughes Medical Institute > Dept of Molecular and Cellular Physiology > 279 Campus Drive, Beckman Center B173 > Stanford School of Medicine > Stanford, CA 94305 > ph: (650)-498-7111