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

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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 #51 from JoeUser Forums Top
I Hate you all.....


Im gunna do some serious photoshop work on this sucker....
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ROFL, HG!

Hopefully before too long I can get to work on my TRS-80 case mod. I can't wait to "show off" my TRS-80 when folks start bragging about their machines!
Reply #52 from WinCustomize Forums Top

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

now, that's just too darned funny!

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Reply #53 from WinCustomize Forums Top
19" is a good size...don't let the thread get u down !
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I'm extremely happy with my purchase... but I figure if others are gonna derive some fun/pleasure from this thread, as originator I should not be left behind.

However, I did notice that while the eyes and toenail polish weren't so bad together, the bikini was definitely out of place. :LOL:

Also, looking at #48, Purrball is going a mighty fine job there at winning first prize for being too darned sanitary.... why even his desk has a much higher sheen than mine. :SURPRISED:

Im gunna do some serious photoshop work on this sucker....
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Tell ya wot, HG, I'd be working on getting a split screen up and running for that baby... so I could be watching the 6 o'clock news while creating the next masterpiece. :LOL:

Reply #54 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Also, looking at #48, Purrball is going a mighty fine job there at winning first prize for being too darned sanitary.... why even his desk has a much higher sheen than mine.
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It's all psychological. As soon as someone mentioned it, 2000 geeks cleaned their areas! See what you have started? ;)
Reply #55 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It's all psychological. As soon as someone mentioned it, 2000 geeks cleaned their areas! See what you have started?
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That is too funny :LOL: 


Reply #56 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hardy Har Har Capn Starkers! Me got a 320gb USB drive for a hunnert pieces of 8! Now I will be able to keep track o'er the rum supplies even when the computer dies!

(Sweet! I now am part of the I hate tapes generation!)
Reply #57 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have enough trouble keeping an eye on one screen - with this setup I would never know for sure what was going on where.
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its really just one large screen, so you get used to it really quick, in fact once you go multi-monitor, you might never go back. I say might because i did only because i got one large monitor now, but if you use 2 or more monitors of one size you cannot just go back to one monitor of that same size, it would drive you nuts, but going to one monitor of a larger size made it easier. Trust me, I still have trouble with this single monitor setup. I was going to keep 2 of the 19's and use them on each side but it looked real lame. Here is an iamge to show the size comparisons

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http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d187/The__Goo/tech%20support/monitorsizecomparison.jpg

And the desk... call that a desk???
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yeah, i know, but after buying the extra monitors, i ran out of cash for the desk...lol

Looks like we have the same speakers Goo, but your links don't work (only goes to photobucket home page).
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Yeah, I think the speakers rock personally, but for gaming to can't beat a great headset. And yes photobucket is getting lame like that, i'm coming across a lot of people PB pics sending you to the main page and not to the image itself. (some do and some don't)
Reply #58 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Imageshack ftw (and direct link to image). :-"
Reply #59 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Im gunna do some serious photoshop work on this sucker....
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HG_Eliminator.. awesome comment, bustin up over that one...roflmao
Reply #60 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hardy Har Har Capn Starkers! Me got a 320gb USB drive for a hunnert pieces of 8! Now I will be able to keep track o'er the rum supplies even when the computer dies!
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Aarrgghh, that'll be good fer tha coffers... not 'avin ter fork over extra booty cos some blaggards be over-indulgin' in thar rum rations. ;)

yeah, i know, but after buying the extra monitors,
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You mean they're really NOT cardboard cut-outs, after all? :LOL:
Reply #61 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I ROFL'ed HG :LOL:
Reply #62 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I was fine with my 20" crt till I bid on a monitor online and won it for next to nothing. I bought my son a tv from the same site last year, they delivered it on a pallet and it took three of us to get it in his room after we took the door off. Now I too will have a 19" LCD for more desk space too. Yeah I am happy too. My husband wasn't even upset that I spent the money because of the price, got a great deal on a MP3/MP4 with fm radio too. We also are getting a set of Cobra two way radios for us to keep track of each other in the flea market, without using the cell phones ( bad reception in the flea market for some reason). Bid was a whole dollar and shipping was a whole $ 8.95 U.S. They will work good when we want to talk when he takes his walks around the apartment complex and sees something he wants me to know about. He is such a busy body when he takes his walks...lol. Have two big screen TVs and my husband always plays his video games in the bedroom on the 52 in. The 57 in. widescreen is in the livingroom and in my control. Thinking about going for a 60 in but it won't fit between the unit that holds all the other crap due to the wall its on. would have to move everything to the other wall and then I don't think the couch will fit on the wall the TV is on, well I guess we will have to move if I want to do that...honey want to buy a new house? Didn't think so... Well can't have everything....but I can try.  ;) 
Reply #63 from WinCustomize Forums Top

It's all psychological. As soon as someone mentioned it, 2000 geeks cleaned their areas! See what you have started?
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Me???? Never started anyfink in me life! I'm a follower, not a leader, so I must've copied it off... um, er...PurrBall 'll do. :LOL:

And psycho-logical.... would that be Alfred Hitchcock's version of illogical... all messed up in the head but scary with it? ;)
Reply #64 from JoeUser Forums Top
It's all psychological. As soon as someone mentioned it, 2000 geeks cleaned their areas! See what you have started?
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I have added clutter to my desk...sorta my way of bringing balance to the force.

I wonder if my boss would buy that argument!
Reply #65 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I ROFL'ed HG
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I though folks would get a laugh :)
Reply #66 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have added clutter to my desk...sorta my way of bringing balance to the force.
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You have crossed over to the dark side Luke.  :LOL: 
Reply #67 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Use the schwartz Lonestar!!!
Reply #68 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have added clutter to my desk...sorta my way of bringing balance to the force.
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I'm glad ye 'ave... in fact I be rather proud of ye. If'n ye brings that non-conformist attitude aboard tha Twisted Sister n' folks sees ye baint be gittin' tha cat o' nine fer yer unshipshapliness, mebbe them'll not be so afeared o' signin' on. :d

Dunno yer boss'll swaller it... but I'll give yer a dubloom n' extra daily rum rations fer tha thought.. ;)

I though folks would get a laugh
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I'm out ta go one better, HG... I'm off to Tandy for the right connection so's I can plug in mrs starkers old Motorola cell phone on my second PC... that 2 by 2" screen 'll give your lil beauty o' yers a run fer its money in the small stakes.

Oh, and with the advent of 10 - 12 cinema complexes, I hear drive in theater screens are fairly cheap at auction if you wanna go a lttle larger than the norm. :p

Reply #69 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok monitor is up and running, wow wide screen ohhhhh, ahhhhhh, lot's of desk space to put more crap on, just not doing the duel monitor thing. Ah my friend Steve is letting me buy his tower, cheap. Wow I can now get rid of my,( and I kid you not my friends) intel pentium 3 with 601MHz and 512 mem. My computer friend Steve just laughs at me and my old tower, I just keep saying it's 54 years old just like me...just as slow as me as well. Can't upgrade the darn motherboard or memory but now he is providing me with something he built and not something bought at best buy. What was I thinking at the time anyway.....atleast now I will have huge hard drive and 1024 memory and dvi for the monitor instead of vga, ha, ha. Sound blaster sound card for real.maybe I will need new speakers now too....lol, I am telling you this thing is just so old and slow it is a shameful thing to watch, and wait for. It really has all I need and upgrades won't be a problem from now on with my buddy steve who thank goodness is willing to part with his other system that he saved for me. He showed me his new motherboard and I have no idea what it is, new and awesome I am sure, I am clueless as you can guess. Once he builds the next one it should soar. I am sure he will show it off to me and tell me once again to get with it. It's ok I will be happy for very little money with the new system for many years. As you can see again I am not much for change and cheap as heck.....bye for now all. Moving to new place next month and won't have time for chatting the first few weeks. Too busy unpacking. Then go to steves and pick up the new tower. Oh and by the way, still not moving to Vista, they can still keep it, Steve has been installing xp into so many new computers for people who just can't stand the Vista. Sorry about that gang I will stick with my XP Proffessional for as long as I can.
Reply #70 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ok monitor is up and running, wow wide screen ohhhhh, ahhhhhh, lot's of desk space to put more crap on,
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Or if you keep it tidy (like obsessive compulsive me)... a lot more desktop to polish.
:p

Sounds like the step up to this tower you're getting will be a fair bit faster than what you have been using... sounds good. :CONGRAT:

All the best with moving next month, too. :)
Reply #71 from WinCustomize Forums Top
a lot more desktop to polish.
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Why do you think most of us DONT keep an uncluttered desktop??????
Reply #72 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Why do you think most of us DONT keep an uncluttered desktop??????
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Me???? Whatever gives you that idea??? Why, I never even thought such a thing, much less ever implied it. :SURPRISED:

I mean, why would I think that I'm the ONLY obsessive compulsive desktop unclutterer in the world?? I might believe mankind is the ONLY intelligent life-form in the universe... but I'm not that arrogant as to think that I AM the ONLY obsessive compulsive desktop unclutterer in the world. ;) :LOL:
Reply #73 from WinCustomize Forums Top
but I'm not that arrogant as to think that I AM the ONLY obsessive compulsive desktop unclutterer in the world.
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You forgot to dot one of your eyes.   :) 
Reply #74 from WinCustomize Forums Top
That's kinda odd cause I bought a Viewsonic not too long ago also a 19" Wide Screen. Difference is mine is Hi Def. Good monitor...enjoy.
Reply #75 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You forgot to dot one of your eyes.
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So I did... darned eyebrow pencil!! The missus told me that I should dampen/lick the end a little before trying to apply it (never did figure out who shaved that one eyebrow, neither) :SURPRISED: :LOL:

***orright, that's my story and I'm sticking to it :d ***

That's kinda odd cause I bought a Viewsonic not too long ago also a 19" Wide Screen. Difference is mine is Hi Def. Good monitor...enjoy.
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Yep, it's a real nice monitor... mine is the VA191wb model and I'm finding it a real pleasure to use. :)