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03/25/2006 Archived Entry: "New Resolutions"

I am firmly of the opinion that one can never have enoug desktop space. Or at the very least, I have yet to encounter a desktop that didn't run home to its momma once I was done with it. Here I present to you the evolution of Rayne's desktop. Exciting!

First we had my old 19 inch CRT Behemoth. I ran this guy at 1600x1200, an awesome resolution, no one else's monitor could really do this...of course no one else's monitor was the size of an adolesent elephant either. Here's what 1600x1200 looks like, and Here it is resized to something a bit more manageable.

In August, Dave got a 23 inch LCD which ouput 1920x1200. 384 000 pixels more than my CRT. Clearly, this challenge to my sense of excessive materialism could not be left unanswered. December saw my acquisition of a twenty-FOUR inch LCD which also did 1920x1200. (BIG, small). After owning a widecreen monitor for a few months, I have to say that this is definately the way Al Gore intended the intrawebs to work. There's nothing quite like being able to look at 2 websites simultaneously side-by-side. This would have been great for all those coding assignments back in Uni.

However, not content with merely calling his raise, I resaised him with the addition of a second screen (laptop) bringing my total desktop space to 1920x1200 + 1280x720. (BIG, small). And in case of needing even more space, there's always the remote desktop to my old machine.

Replies: 14 comments

Is this the "grown-up" boy's equivolant of "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"?

I think it comes down to what it always has: someone else's is always bigger and you will assume that means better (although admittedly, that's true in *some* cases).

Posted by Kathleen @ 03/25/2006 09:36 PM EST

ONE INCH BIGGER THAN MINE! DAMN YOU!

Posted by Dave @ 03/27/2006 01:41 PM EST

Thai that's a monster screen. But at least my laptop res is higher than yours! :P

Anyways, is this what Dave got?

http://www.apple.com/displays/

Posted by djkimothy @ 03/27/2006 02:05 PM EST

Nah, this is what I've got:
http://www.anandtech.com/displays/showdoc.aspx?i=2467

Posted by Dave @ 03/27/2006 06:38 PM EST

You over-compensators...:P!

Posted by dAN @ 03/27/2006 08:48 PM EST

"You over-compensators"