Lyris Lite :: I bought a new monitor

Thanks to the low, low US$, I was able to acquire a ton of cheap computer bits, meaning that my new PC came in waaaay "under budget". This, coupled with selling bits from the old one... as well as some other stuff... meant that I had some extra money to spend. So, to celebrate my last exam today, and since the weather is ridiculously good here (by UK standards), I went into town and bought me a nice new PC monitor.

It's nothing outrageous, just an 19" widescreen HP w19b, which has a native resolution of1440x900 - a nice compromise between nice big text and high-ish resolution. And although the controls are limited (there's no backlight control, tsk tsk), it suits me just fine for what I use my computer for. I thought that at £180, the price was right, too.

Anyway, I really like this thing - it's surprising how much it's rounded off the "new computer" feel. It has a nice gloss black appearance (which is surprisingly non-reflective), and no longer do I have to look at my old screen, which was, uh, showing its age a little. Yep, my old screen was a Philips model from 2003, which must be an eternity in LCD-land, and it had some seriously funky colour reproduction. Better yet, it also had a collection of battle scars it had acquired over the years (a gash out of the panel surface and a gigantic brighter patch that appeared after the poor thing smacked face-first into my keyboard).

It's amazing how a new screen makes the whole set-up seem even shinier and newer than it is!

Awesome set up David! So slick and compact.

Do you have a picture of your old setup? I think a before and after shot is in order. Your new setup looks more modern then your old one I'm sure.

My brother has that monitor. It's good. I haven't heard him complain about it.

I still use a 17" 4:3 screen. With the price-crash in monitors, I'll probably get a widescreen sometime soon.

Thats a nice and slick setup David! Much more.... updated than the one you had before Im sure!

Thanks Spencer. Mike: don't have a picture anymore but here's the new "XPC" on top of the old tower I used to use (well, what's LEFT of the old tower I used to use):

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f383/lyris1/IMG_4535.jpg

Wow, what a difference. Do you have the front of the old case or is that how you were using it?

Mike

Yeah, I have the front of the case lying in the other corner of the room. I was attacking it with the vacuum cleaner, you see.

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