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Title: How big is... too big?
Post by: gprime on April 20, 2005, 06:45:51 am

... monitors of course!  ;D

I recently visited a friend and they had a 24" (twenty-freaking-four inch!) Dell LCD. I have seen these online all the time, but seeing the size in real life really overwhelms you. I sat down to check this thing out, and I actually might think this is just too big (don't hit me!). Lot's of neck turning I tell ya :)

Do you think there is such thing as too big?

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: maraxle on April 20, 2005, 07:56:53 am

Too big is the Apple 30" widescreen monitor.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: daywane on April 20, 2005, 08:00:00 am

I first saw a 17 inch a few years ago at my sisters and thought that was.
now I am into Mame I have a 19 inch on desk top. I would not go any bigger on a desk top.
now arcade

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: Stingray on April 20, 2005, 09:32:57 am

I guess you get used to whatever you have. I have a 21 inch on my desk at work, and now the 17 inch I have a home seems tiny. When I first got that 17" at home I thought it was a monster.

-S

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: Shape D. on April 20, 2005, 10:16:33 am

It depends what your using it for too. If I ever get my studio set up I'm getting the largest monitor I can find. mixing on a larger screen is way easier.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: Sephroth57 on April 20, 2005, 11:03:16 am

well my recent one has 36Ds theyre pretty nice


oh wait monitors... yeah i use a 21inch CRT. just say no to LCD kids

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: missioncontrol on April 20, 2005, 12:46:21 pm

The bigger the better.............

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: SirPoonga on April 20, 2005, 01:08:48 pm

Depends on what oyu use it for.  I can't get too big, I'm a developer.  Screenis cluttered with so many toolbars, windows, and other crap that the actual code gets a small area of the screen :)

I'm thinking of getting that cheap 19" lcd from tigerdirect ....

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: JB on April 20, 2005, 09:51:01 pm

I'd rather have 2 smaller screens than one large one.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: tommy on April 20, 2005, 10:16:14 pm

17" LCD at the PC , 19" on the jamma cab, 45" In the living room.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: DaemonCollector on April 20, 2005, 11:40:44 pm

Ive got me 2 17s" And I wanna go bigger...

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: markrvp on April 21, 2005, 12:15:16 am

My workstation uses a dual monitor setup.  I have a 21" CRT for color critical work and a 19" LCD for word processiong and to hold toolbars and dialog boxes in programs like Photoshop and InDesign.  Both are run by a Matrox G450 VGA card.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: nipsmg on April 21, 2005, 08:16:39 am

I use 2 17's at work and I love it.  Stretching the desktop over 2 monitors is extremely useful.

i've tried 19's, and yeah, they're bigger, but they just really take up more real estate.  For the most part, both 17"s and 19"s only run in 1280x1024.  To really appreciate larger monitors, I'd need both in 1600x1200.  (Which is something I really don't get. Why is it that they have 15" monitors in laptops running 1600x1200, but almost every desktop 15" LCD has a max resolution of 1024x768?)

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: JB on April 21, 2005, 12:03:14 pm

Quote from: nipsmg on April 21, 2005, 08:16:39 am

I use 2 17's at work and I love it.  Stretching the desktop over 2 monitors is extremely useful.

i've tried 19's, and yeah, they're bigger, but they just really take up more real estate.  For the most part, both 17"s and 19"s only run in 1280x1024.  To really appreciate larger monitors, I'd need both in 1600x1200.  (Which is something I really don't get. Why is it that they have 15" monitors in laptops running 1600x1200, but almost every desktop 15" LCD has a max resolution of 1024x768?)

Because CRT technology is a lot more evolved. We just don't know how to make really small pixels on LCDs.

Title: Re: How big is... too big?
Post by: EndTwist on April 21, 2005, 05:20:56 pm

Heh, I own the 20.1" Dell 2005FPW LCD  ;D

I <3 Widescreen.