by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 08/23/2017 at 19:28
by "Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
Published 08/23/2017 at 19:28
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24" debranded HP monitor for $10? I figured that it was a mistake but no, it really was $10. He bought it at a garage sale for $20, but it was too big for his desk. OK, you twisted my arm...
I always thought 1080 pixels was too few, so the extra 120 pixels is quite a nice change.
I want to replace the 22" monitor with the 23" I just downgraded, but the old monitor doesn’t have any VESA mounting holes. Is there something that I can attach to the back of my old screen so that I mount it on the bracket I have configured for a second monitor?
"Rico" (ricorich)
08/23/2017 at 19:34, STARS: 2
Are we going to have to put you on Hoarders or what?
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/23/2017 at 19:39, STARS: 1
Not if I can give away some of this crap. I kept upgrading monitors and now I have to many. Same thing with routers. And cameras, etc. Now that I’ve gotten the good stuff the old items can go. Time to re-donate the lesser items or sell them off for a token amount.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/23/2017 at 19:43, STARS: 2
I would have bought that on principle.
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/23/2017 at 19:44, STARS: 1
Precisely. Even if it was just used as a TV you’d get your money’s worth out of it.
"Rico" (ricorich)
08/23/2017 at 20:06, STARS: 0
You can try to do a yard sale of your own if you have the space. Not sure if it’s worth the effort but EBay could be a great option, you do have some good stuff that people might want!
"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
08/23/2017 at 20:10, STARS: 0
It’s hard to go back to a single monitor setup once you’ve used a multi-monitor setup. Back in the day I had a triple-display PC at my old workplace, but that was with 4:3 displays.
Now, since my PC is used as my entertainment center, it’s hooked up to two TVs - a 32" 720p LCD TV (I like it because it’s very flexible with a lot of ports) and a 50" 1080p LED TV (which only has two HDMI ports but was free, so I can’t complain).
If I ever move to a bigger place I want to build a proper battlestation from scratch and either move up to a single, large ultra-wide display or a multi-monitor setup and continue to use my current PC in the living room.
"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
08/23/2017 at 20:10, STARS: 0
It’s hard to go back to a single monitor setup once you’ve used a multi-monitor setup. Back in the day I had a triple-display PC at my old workplace, but that was with 4:3 displays.
Now, since my PC is used as my entertainment center, it’s hooked up to two TVs - a 32" 720p LCD TV (I like it because it’s very flexible with a lot of ports) and a 50" 1080p LED TV (which only has two HDMI ports but was free, so I can’t complain).
If I ever move to a bigger place I want to build a proper battlestation from scratch and either move up to a single, large ultra-wide display or a multi-monitor setup and continue to use my current PC in the living room.
"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
08/23/2017 at 20:11, STARS: 2
It’s at a price point where I would ask myself “How could I afford not to buy this?”
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/23/2017 at 20:13, STARS: 1
I’ll have to check with the neighborhood groups because I think there is a semi-annual yard sale around here. I know the piano bar on the corner has occasional yard sales, but I don’t know if everyone in the neighborhood is invited to sell.
I did have some good luck a few years ago selling some pro audio and video gear on eBay. I did have one PoS back out on the sale of a digital video mixer that I was selling for around $500. Sadly it’s probably not worth as much today, even though you can still buy it new, just because it’s not HD. But for live, 4-camera work, if you can live with standard definition, it can’t be beat. On the plus side, I still have $51.30 in my eBay account to cover any sale fees.
"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
08/23/2017 at 20:15, STARS: 2
Exactly. I just picked up a Harmon Kardon amp for free from a neighbor. It doesn’t offer any functionality beyond what I already have, but how could I pass up free??
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/23/2017 at 20:27, STARS: 2
Years ago, for shits and giggles, I hooked up 6 monitors to a Macintosh II, and it worked surprisingly well. I’ve been doing the two monitor setup for years now, but I need to clean off the desk so that I can add the third. For some applications, 4:3 monitors work much, much better than widescreen. At work all of our systems have dual monitors (although at times I wish they had triples), and the one I wish I could use has a 4:3 and a 16:9, and different pages on our app are well-suited to such an arrangement. Unfortunately the workstation I use has a rather low resolution secondary monitor, and getting all of the needed columns at once can be a bitch. I used a manager’s station a few weeks back and the full HD secondary monitor was fantastic. I’ve offered to replace my secondary monitor with one from my collection, but you can guess how well that went over. Hell, they don’t even want us to charge our phones on the computer, or use something simple like a USB-powered fan. Sure, there may be security risks to devices that can download, and sure, cheap USB powered devices may not be of the highest quality, but I know from personal experience that corporate IT staff are usually anal-retentive control freaks; I was in IT for years and didn’t exactly fit in with the stereotypical employee crowd.
I do have a 20" 1600x1200 that I like to use in portrait mode for reading documents. The 4:3 layout is closer to a sheet of letter paper, and it makes reading magazines and other documents on the screen much more pleasant than trying to do it on a widescreen. Each design has its advantages, and you can’t really say one type is better than the other. It’s just like my tablets - for reading documents it’s the iPad all the way, but for video the android tablet is the better choice.
"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
08/23/2017 at 20:42, STARS: 0
I get what you mean - at work I have one monitor in portrait and another in landscape and I’ll only put certain windows on a particular monitor (like reading documents on the portrait-oriented monitor).
My major gripe with those particular 4:3s is that I usually work with really wide spreadsheets and tables. Expanding them over both monitors doesn’t work well because of the different orientations and the large bezels. A widescreen monitor would be really nice in my situation (actually, one widescreen and one 4:3 would probably be a perfect work setup).
"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury)
08/23/2017 at 20:46, STARS: 0
That reminds me of the first time I saw a Windows system running dual monitors back in the ‘90s. You’d think it would be better since they had over a decade of Macintosh experience to copy from, but they did the silliest, half-assed implementation. They treated the two monitors as one logical desktop, so when an error message popped up in the center of the screen half of it was on one monitor and half on the other.
And don’t even think about trying more than two monitors or using two monitors of dissimilar resolution...