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What size monitors do you guys use?

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  • N Nish Nishant

    I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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    Mustafa Demirhan
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    I have a Sony 19" - 1152x864 at 85 Hz ;P ;P Kind regards Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com Sonork ID 100.9935:zoltrix

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    • B Bjoern Graf

      Ok, just to proof that statement: At work I have a 19" with 1280x1024 and my private 17" monitor runs at 1152x864. Note: only the lost souls worshiping the dark side of the force use monitors greater than 15", the brave don't need more };) Bjørn.

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      Nish Nishant
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      Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Mummmyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. LOLOLOL Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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      • M Mustafa Demirhan

        I have a Sony 19" - 1152x864 at 85 Hz ;P ;P Kind regards Mustafa Demirhan http://www.macroangel.com Sonork ID 100.9935:zoltrix

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        Nish Nishant
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        Wise guy!!!!! Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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          Nish [BusterBoy] wrote: who is using a 15" monitor Sorry, Nish, but the closest thing I have is a 14" monitor, but that's in my cupboard (between what's left of my 80386 and some .. um ... magazines) :| Running at 1280 x 1024 on a 19" monitor (with Eric Cartman on top) at home. Simon "...Bill is watching..." "An object is simply a referenced thingy" ... Programming Perl, by Larry Wall

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          Nish Nishant
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          Well, all of you just keep telling me you have 17 and 19 and 21 inch monitors. But only two or three people have told me to try and get a better monitor. Frankly both mails won't get me a new monitor. But the advisory type mails have something wam about it. I feel like smiling wryly when I see type-2 posts. Yours is type 2 Simon. But to be frank I wish I could forward all these posts to my unaware management which I hope will open their eyes. But it won't. And thanks Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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          • J Jon Sagara

            I'm completely happy with my 19", but this is the Holy Grail of monitors. *Homer Simpson drool* :) Jon Sagara What about :bob:?

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            Nish Nishant
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            You know what really sucks. My CEO is using a Sun Solaris with a 19" monitor happily. He's a nice guy really. But he can't help me much I guess. This is what happens when you work in a 3rd world company in a 3rd world city in a 3rd world nation. Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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            • J Jon Sagara

              I'm completely happy with my 19", but this is the Holy Grail of monitors. *Homer Simpson drool* :) Jon Sagara What about :bob:?

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              markkuk
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              No, this is the Holy Grail of monitors! :omg:

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              • N Nish Nishant

                I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                RaviBee
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                I use a circa 1998 21" (20" visible) Trinitron running at 1600x1200 @ 65Hz. I can't use anything smaller than 1600x1200 any more. At work I have a Sun monitor (fed by my PC and my Sun workstation) running at 1800x1440. I used to own a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop that displayed 1400x1150 on its LCD screen and up to 1600x1200 external. Dell now offers a native 1600x1200 resolution on its 15.4" screen. Very nice! /ravi "There is always one more bug..." http://www.ravib.com ravib@ravib.com

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                • N Nish Nishant

                  I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                  Brigg Thorp
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                  I have a 19 inch monitor at work and a 19 inch monitor (trinitron) at home. However, at work we are upgrading all of our PIII 500's to new PC (PIV 2 GHz) and we are getting 18 inch LCD monitors (that support 1280 x 1024 resolution). I love working for a company that is on the high side of technology :) Brigg Thorp Software Engineer Timex Corporation

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                  • M markkuk

                    No, this is the Holy Grail of monitors! :omg:

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                    Jon Sagara
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                    Oy! I stand corrected. :eek: Jon Sagara What about :bob:?

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                    • N Nish Nishant

                      Ooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhh...... Anymore of this torture and I'll be the battiest person in Trivandrum despite having the sensibilest [new word I coined] brain in the city. Nish p.s. sensibilest is a lot more efficient than 'most sensible' Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                      Maximilien
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                      Well, you asked for it ... Max.

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                      • N Nish Nishant

                        I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                        Giles
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                        19 and a 21 inch. Giles

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                        • N Nish Nishant

                          I was running 800x600 at 85 Hz I now swicthed to 1024x768 on my small 15" I had to reduce refresh rate to 60 Hz to do that and I'll probably go blind in 3 weeks time. I found that the fonts are all so small, they are unreadable So I changed my color scheme to Windows [large] and that made things better except on CP. Chris uses hard-coded font sizes for CP pages and thus changing the fonts have absolutely no effect on CP. I wish Chris would go and read that nice article written by Paul on using relative fonts Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                          billb2112
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                          Nish, If you don't like their monitors, go buy your own. Make sure you mark it clearly and let management know that this is YOUR monitor so that you can take it when you leave.

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                            I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                            Tim Lesher
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                            With prices where they are, anything less than a 17" is a crime... I agree with another poster: fork over some cash and buy one, clearly marked as "Personal Property of Nish". Here's my history: 1993: 14" monitor 1994: 17" monitor 1997: 21" monitor with 12" monochrome debugging monitor 2000: 21" monitor with second 19" VGA monitor 2002: 17" monitor (sigh... eight years of progress down the tubes) Each change happened when switching to a new company... maybe it's time for a change, Nish... ;-) Tim Lesher http://www.lesher.ws

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                            • N Nish Nishant

                              Robert Dickenson wrote: I have two 17" monitors next to each other, one on a switch and the other on the linux box. Why me? Why am I always chosen to bear hardships like 15" monitors when the rest of the hapy people are on 17" monitors :-( Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                              Roger Wright new
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                              Don't feel like the only one, Nish... My company won't let me upgrade to color. After all, I'm only the Sysadmin, not someone important like the VP who uses his 19" to play Hearts with the Pres.

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                              • N Nish Nishant

                                Is there anybody, at least one single "homo sapien sapien" on this 3rd planet from the sun, who is using a 15" monitor other than me? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                Roger Wright new
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                                Yup. A 15", monochrome, running at 50Hz. And it only displays the consonants and punctuation marks. I have to guess at what the vowels are. Just how this saves us money escapes me, but I'm sure there was a good reason.

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                                • N Nish Nishant

                                  I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                  Glenn Dawson
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                                  At work: Two 21" FD monitors for development, and a 15" LCD for the test machine. At home: 24" 16:9 FD monitor and a TV out to a 43" 16:9 HDTV for games.

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                                  • N Nish Nishant

                                    I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                    Gavin Taylor
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                                    At home I've got a Sony Trinitron 19" running at 1280x960 at 100Hz and in the office a CTX 15" flat screen ( 17" viewable area ) and a 17" monitor both running at 1024x768 coming off a Matrox dual head card. I pity anybody still running less than 17" i don't think my eyes could cope - Maybe we should start a collection...!

                                    Gavin Taylor w: http://www.gavintaylor.co.uk

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                                    • N Nish Nishant

                                      I was quite pissed recently when my management rejected my request to upgrade my 14" monitor with a 17" monitor. They instead gave me a 15" which though is better than a 14" is far from useful. I can't even use 1024x768. I can but then I'll need a magnifying glass. I mean people think only graphics designers need big monitors. I believe this wrong thinking. I mean to make full use of all the Visual Studio toolbars we really need a 17" monitor. I am pretty sure it will greatly improve my programming speed and efficiency. Your thoughts? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                      Cathy
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                                      21" at work 17" at home They were good to me with the monitor, but the computer is only a 200 mhz, Pentium I. So about 2 years ago I brought my home computer to work. It's a 500 mhz, Pentium III. It was worth it. It saved my sanity. I'm a much happier person now. I just couldn't handle the constant lockups on the Pentium I. You could go out and buy a 17" monitor and try leasing it to them. Maybe $15 or $20 a month. One of my co-workers did that. I can't charge my company for my computer because I owe them big time. I had to take off 2 months this past year for health problems and they paid me for it. So I think I will donate that computer to them. Cathy Life's uncertain, have dessert first!

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                                      • B billb2112

                                        Nish, If you don't like their monitors, go buy your own. Make sure you mark it clearly and let management know that this is YOUR monitor so that you can take it when you leave.

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                                        Nish Nishant
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                                        Nice suggestion Bill. Right now I have a 15" at home too which I plan to swap for a 17" as soon as I can get the money. Once that's done perhaps I'll do as you say. It'll embarass them too :-) Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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                                        • R Roger Wright new

                                          Don't feel like the only one, Nish... My company won't let me upgrade to color. After all, I'm only the Sysadmin, not someone important like the VP who uses his 19" to play Hearts with the Pres.

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                                          Nish Nishant
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                                          Are you in India too Roger? what system do you admin? An NT server? Or some Unix? Nish Sonork ID 100.9786 voidmain www.busterboy.org If you don't find me on CP, I'll be at Bob's HungOut

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