Comments on: Victory! https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/ Rich Lafferty's OLD blog Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:49:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.2 By: dossy https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 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. :-)

]]> By: Rich https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2522 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”.

]]> By: ptomblin_lj https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2521 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. 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 https://www.lafferty.ca/2006/06/27/victory/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:03:21 +0000 #comment-2520 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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