Hardy Hardy Har... Me Has A New 19' WS Monitor

my Chrissy present to me.....

from WinCustomize Forums
Yeah, was out earlier and noticed my fav puter store was open....huh, on Boxing Day??? Well I went in to wish Pat, the owner, a great day and a happy New Year if I didn't get to see him beforehand, etc, etc.

Well, as always, the conversation gravitated towards computers and etc... and the next thing I know I'm walking out with a new ViewSonic 19' LCD monitor for AU$250. I think Pat was just as surprised as I was... he was showing/telling me about this new Gigabyte mobo that'd go perfectly with an Intel Core Duo I've had my eye on for a while now... and the next thing he knows is that I'm handing over the cash for the monitor... no warning or indication I was even interested....

OK, so it was an impulse buy, but I'm as happy as a hog in muck with my purchase and just had to come crow about it here cos I felt like so much crap yesterday. ;)

Oh, and before anyone says: "Why didn't you get a bigger one?"...my eyes are real close together and I wouldn't be able to see both sides of the screen...'specially when I gits meself all cross eyed on the Playboy site. :d :LOL:

Nah, truth is, a larger one wouldn't fit in the pigeon hole on my desk, not with my speakers as well, so the 19" is perfect and just what I wanted... and my regular 19" Samsung is now hooked up to another rig I just finished assembling from mostly old parts, just got to load XP Home and Ubuntu on it and I have me a spare to play with.

Well that just about covers it for now, so see ya's 'round like a cartwheel. :)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Oh, and before anyone says: "Why didn't you get a bigger one?"...my eyes are real close together and I wouldn't be able to see both sides of the screen...'specially when I gits meself all cross eyed on the Playboy site.
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Yeah, there's nothing worse than making a set of "A's" look like "DD's". I mean, sure it's good for a time, but when you get to the "DD's", it gives you dain bramage.

Congrats on the new monitor.



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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, there's nothing worse than making a set of "A's" look like "DD's".
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So very true...so there'll be no way any silicon is getting pumped into my monitor... me, I'll wait 'til a 44 incher comes along naturally. :d

BTW, I know a pair of nice DD's... Diane and Delvene Delaney, lovely girls they are, too. :p

I've got a 19" Viewsonic LCD too and I love it. Great color and clarity on it.
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Yep, I'm enjoying mine a lot as well... absolutely perfect at the 1300 x 900 resolution. :)
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Step up to the leaque of the big boys.... ;P

Philips 220ws (22" at 1600X1200) ;) ;)

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen. ;P And hey....1600x1200 isn't widescreen... :SURPRISED:
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have Dell 19" 1600x1200 at work and Gateway 21" 1680x1050 at home. Haven't tried connecting the PC to 60" Plasma @1920x1080.
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen.
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Ditto  :HOT: 24' 1920X1200  :d 

Glad you got a new screen tho Starkers, 19' is really big enough, main reason I went so big was for work and because I got a killer deal on it.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Anyone wants to dpnate to the Zubaz fund for anythign bigger than a 17" CRT with a corner starting to go a bit red . . Let me know.  (:(

Congrats Starkers (and everyone else apparently)   :SNIFF!: 
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Sounds like a battle of who has the biggest you know what in here.

I really don't care what you guys have.

Thanks for once again rubbing it in my face.

:( X-(
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
We really feel sorry for you and your possum's pecker...  ;p 
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thanks for once again rubbing it in my face.
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*sigh*

ok... 22" widescreen

^^ mine 

Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's not how big it is, it's how you use it, right? LOL!

Leave me alone with my lousy 17 inch flat screen! LOL! At least it ain't a CRT!
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
OK so I should have added this - :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:
Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah, I'm happy with my 22" Samsung SyncMaster.....NON-widescreen......

It's not the shiznits, but like Gideon said....
At least it ain't a CRT!
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Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
The 19 inchers have become almost commodities. Buy a dell and get a free 19" upgrade! I remember when they were selling 15" for $1k USD!

I bought a 19" when they were pricier, but have never regretted it. Until now. I have a 24" at work (long story on that one), and want one at home now!

Perhaps next year. ;)

Now about those double Ds of yours......What do Ms. Starkers say about them?
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Step up to the leaque of the big boys....
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Pales in comparison to my 24" widescreen.
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I could always haul my 42" wide-screen TV over and hook my rig up to that... but then there'd be no room on my desk for all my other paraphanalia. ;)

Besides, the have anything bigger than a 19", I'd have to remodel my desktop... and carpentry ain't one of my stronger points these days.. not when my saw would be a stay sharp knife, my hammer the heel of my shoe, and a screwdriver fashioned from an old baked beans tin lid. :LOL:
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A shot of my desktop with the new monitor...such as it is, not quite set up as I want it just yet. It'll do for the time being, tho... maybe that could be my New Years resolution - rearrange/tidy up my desk some.

Oh, and the pirate stuff...er, that was my mother's doing/getting, to go along with my cap'n starkers persona. ;)

Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A pirate ship???? 
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
that's just far too damned sanitary.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
A better shot...




A pirate ship????
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Why not?? A pirate cap'n 'aves ter 'ave e's own transport... passers-by on tha high seas be too far n' few between fer ta be hitchhiking between ports. ;p
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top
that's just far too damned sanitary.
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What Snidely said.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks like one heck of a nice set up Sir Starkers, but way to clean and neat. :LOL: 
Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
starkers is a spy...he can't be a techie...techies aren't that neat!
Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
that's just far too damned sanitary.
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What Snidely said.
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Whatcha mean...too damned sanitary!!! The desktop hasn't been polished since yesterday .... and my puter chair hasn't been sanitised/disinfected since before Xmas. ;p
Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Whatcha mean...too damned sanitary!!! The desktop hasn't been polished since yesterday .... and my puter chair hasn't been sanitised/disinfected since before Xmas.
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Which Xmas? If you are talking this one, then I agree with SNidely too! ;)