1,920,000 of 24bit Portrait Pixels Liberated . . .

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

. . . about 15 minutes ago! I'm surfing in Portrait mode at Panera Bread on THE COOLEST monitor I've EVER seen! 8-o

It's not exactly my thing (my apartment is the place 21" CRTs go into semi-retirement) but 20.1" of Diagonal 4:5 aspect ratio'd Pivoting Pixels is well worth migrating to an LCD! I don't even care about the friggin' DELL Logo on it! [] ]'>

So it's not EXACTLY a Mac Liberation, but it'll be shared between HP_Mini & my Graphite G4 DA along with the DA's ever faithful 21" Radius PrecisionColor CRT at the flip of a switch!

Great craigslist find, but I didn't show the poor guy how cool surfing in portrait mode was . . .

. . . until AFTER he had my $75 in his pocket! }

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Muahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :lol:

 

[littlecloud92]

". . . until AFTER he had my $75 in his pocket! } "

Oh, you evil...

Wonder for how long the guy facepalmed afterwards

Seriously, nice haul for $75! Non-widescreen too! (Although the first pic that shows up under Dell's website makes it look like one)

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

All he said was: "I wish I'd have thought of that!" Apparently, he never even knew it was a Pivot Design!

:approve: }

I finally picked up an NEC 19" 4:3/5:4 1280x1024 LCD for my grlf yesterday to replace the 17" 4:3/5:4 HP 1280 x 1024 LCD (HP_Mini's first BigScreen/FullScreen Display) that I loaned her when I set her up for working ergonomically from home and now I got this one for myself today!

I'd been sharing a really nice 22" 1080p HP LCD (with an HDMI input for DVDs) between HP_Mini & the DA for quite a while, but I decided that 16:9 wasn't really meant for browsing or graphics, so I went back to the Radius PrecisionView 2150 for general use and I'll set up the 1080p for sharing on my OmniView KVM/Mac Adapter/Four Way Mac DB-15/ADB KVM combo (along with the HDMI-out DVD I got specifically for it [] ]'> ) on my MacShelf™ Display/Workstation System on another wall.

The grlf thinks it's time to unload some of the 21" CRTs. :disapprove: :'(

 

[littlecloud92]

I do agree with your girl on the subject of unloading those CRTs |)

I used a CRT as my main screen up till 2008 or so, and there have been no CRTs in regular use in this house since last year!

Perhaps I'll get a professional 19" just to keep around as a color reference someday.

 

[Gorgonops]

I fished a similar monitor out of a recycle bin recently, an NEC Multisync LCD 2080UX. 1600x1200, Dual VGA and Dual DVI ports, Landscape/Portrait swing stand, etc. Works fine, but is of 2003 vintage so you'll notice things like how much dimmer the backlight is compared to a new monitor. (Although I sort of like the "warm white" look of it compared to the electric blue-ish vibe of newer monitors.) One thing I do find a little disappointing about every "portrait" LCD I've tried is that the portrait mode is in software, IE, the monitor doesn't actually "scan top to bottom" when its rotated. That limits the portrait mode's usefulness to video cards that can maintain acceptable performance when displaying a rotated desktop. (Many older cards basically lose all acceleration and just behave like dumb framebuffers when using them in "portrait mode", assuming you have a driver that can do it at all.) This NEC is no different. It would be nice if being flipped over actually changed the "hardware geometry" of the unit so I could hack together a custom video mode to use the monitor in Portrait mode with, say, my old Sun Ultra 10. (Granted the video card in that would barely eek out 256 colors at full resolution.)

It is a little shocking to me that when that NEC monitor was new it cost somewhere in the $1600-$2000 ball park. It's astounding just how quickly LCDs got cheap.

I also agree with the grlf (Glucocorticosteroid-Resistant Lymphocyte Fraction?)... time to let the CRTs go. If you're keeping them in your house, well... figure each one is costing you about six cubic feet of breathing room. I dunno about you but I can think of more interesting ways to soak up that sort of space. You could justify keeping *one* around for old-tymey hardware hacking with systems that output video modes that LCDs won't cooperate with, but beyond that...

 

[4seasonphoto]

Wait a minute, you set up shop in Panera Bread with a 20" desktop monitor?! That's pretty hardcore.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I met the seller there, tested the LCD and bought it at a table there. So just I left it hooked up and tested surfing at 1200 x 1600 x 24 bit @ 60 Hz (portrait orientation) while I enjoyed my free coffee refill . . .

. . . is that hardcore? :lol:

 

[insaneboy]

composite video input, nice. 'bout the only thing I'd look for in a cheap used LCD.

next one I buy is not going to be cheap, hoping to convince my boss to let me work from home a few days a week once my son starts school so my wife can continue to work (short school days, not to mention all the vacations and teacher days is CRAP I tell ya) gotta have a nice color accurate panel (I do photo retouching/color correction)