On Sun, Aug 03, 2008 at 04:03:47PM -0700, MattyJ wrote:
It's hard for me to recommend a size of monitor, even to myself. I have a big monitor (24 inch) at work and for that environment it suits my work habits, but for my home purposes that is just way too big. If you're used to having the monitor 24 inches away (which seems close to me) then you might go blind using sich a big monitor at home. Or you'll really have to re-arrange your desk.
I have a 30" (Apple Cinema) at home. I don't think it is too big. I only have a 20" (1600x1200) at work. I've never found dual displays to be workable (which is why I ended up getting the 30"). The discontinuity means that basically everything has to be on either one monitor or the other. Straddling doesn't work very well. As far as the 4x3 monitors go (if you can still find one), most of the 17, 18, and 19 inch displays all seem to be 1280x1024, so you're just getting bigger pixels. I personally find the larger pixels unpleasant to work with. I don't want smaller text, but I do want clearer text.
Go to Costco or Office Depot and spend five minutes in front of each monitor to see how your eyes like it.
The problem with this advice is that most of the stores seem to run a single analog video source to all of the monitors. The larger displays are scaling the image, and all of them look horrible. I have a Gateway 22" widescreen at home. It has DVI-HDCP, so I can feed HDMI into it. It makes a nearly decent display for Blu-Ray, except that it doesn't have the right pixel aspect ratio. It's not a very good monitor for text. I don't know how to quantify it, but it just isn't nearly as readable as the other LCDs I have. I'm happy with the Dell 2000FP and 2001FP 20" (non-wide) that I use. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
