Having a good time with my new monitor :-)
Pretty perverted, huh?
The F.A.Porsche designed monitor from Samsung can be made to turn over on the side and let me browse the web at 1028x1280 - or work in Flash for example. :-) I think that is going to become my favorite position for it ;-)
Here's some pictures just to give you some insight into how my world looks like when browsing the web and working different applications right now:
Its a 17" LCD so its actually a lot less expensive than the 18" LCDs that are a lot more common. The one I got cost about US $850 (Just checked C|Net - http://cnet.search.com/search?timeout=3&tag=ex.cn.1.srch.cnet&q=Samsung+SyncMaster+171P )
It goes great with the Logitech keyboard and optical mouse I am using at work, together with my tiny laptop. Its fun going from the 10" screen on the laptop, over to the 17" LCD, one of the better setups I have ever had.
Posted by: Jarle - kl: 02:11, 10 July, 2002 - #217Wow... kewl. That is handy. I've seen the legal guys have monitors that turn like this .. but they were always expensive.
17" hm not a bad size (it's what I use now) ... I wonder how it'd do for Video work. What's it's colour defntn like?
Posted by: PNut - kl: 02:21, 10 July, 2002 - #218Heh, I am not a designer - so I haven't even looked at the colour calibration yet. Should be possible to get pretty good colours, but they will not be exactly like what you'd get on a CRT. I am very happy with the colours and the definition of the screen.
BTW: If you have a 17" CRT then it doesn't match the viewfield of a 17" LCD. I would claim that the 17" LCD is more like a 19" CRT when it comes to actual usable screen-estate.
You can find the technical spesifications of the LCD screen if you go to: http://www.samsungusa.com/ - Unfortunatly they have made it virtually impossible to bookmark or link directly to pages on their site (sessions), so I can't link directly to the screen - But just go there and search for 171P and you are there. :-)
I haven't gotten to test animations too much on it yet. I run it off my laptop and the videocard in my laptop is struggeling as it is with providing the right resolution. But I will have the pleasure of seeing it against a GeForce 4 card very soon, so I'm sure we will get to test the screen well :-)
Posted by: Jarle - kl: 03:16, 10 July, 2002 - #219