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My New Monitor's Here! My New Monitor's Here!

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With apologies to Steve Martin.

I just got my new monitor (after the whole Office Move thingy I decided I didn't want to move the big monitors again).  It's a Del 2001FP which does 1600x1200 natively.

Oh man, I don't know WHAT I was thinking of in waiting to get this puppy.  I have a 2001FP at home on my home machine, but I hadn't realized just how nice it was as a work monitor.

This is one SWEET monitor.  It's SO crisp.

 

Now all I need to do is to figure out how I can justify a second :)

Comments

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    I also have a Dell 2001FP and "sweet" is exactly right. As for getting two of them... I'm pondering getting a new video card that does portrait, which I think would be nice for coding (not that my functions are all that long...). Imagine two of these bad boys side-by-side in portrait mode. :)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Being the window manager architect is usually the best way to get multiple monitor setups. :) Lots of them. :)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Only one? I use two Viewsonic VP201Bs, each 1600x1200 off a X300 card. Two (3200x1200) is definitely better than on.

    Of course, what I really want is two 1920x1538 monitors...

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Honestly, I have no idea how I ever coded with only one monitor. Having the spec open on one while coding on the other is the ONLY way to go for me anymore.

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    I've used dual monitors for about 4 years now. But the difference the flat screen makes is amazing.

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Just keep giving me reasons to hate you Larry =)

    I have a 19" ViewSonic CRT. I like the idea of duel but as I do a lot of gaming it would more than likely break stuff (plus I don't have the room on the desk).

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Manip, it cost like $620 or so for the monitor. I was really surprised at how cheap it was.

    At work, it replaced a Multisync FE1250, at home, it replaced an IIYAMA 19 inch CRT.

    Btw, I'll whole heartedly endorse the IIYAMA CRTs - they're REALLY quite nice.

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    $620? Might have well be $620,000 student. :)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    > Now all I need to do is to figure out how I
    > can justify a second :)

    You can't. The longest waiting period that you can justify is 55ms.

    > Btw, I'll whole heartedly endorse the IIYAMA
    > CRTs - they're REALLY quite nice.

    Want any used ones? Around 2,000 to 4,000 yen per used CRT monitor (including Iiyama). Though if you're in the right place at the right time, you might find someone willing to pay you a few hundred yen to take it off their hands, so they don't have to take it to a store and pay a recycling fee to get rid of it.

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    You definitely want a second 2001FP Larry. I had a 2001FP with a 21" Sony CRT and eventually decided I wanted some desktop space back so ordered another 2001fp, now you couldn't get me to go back. Simply amazing. I am now trying to figure out if I can get a third to fit in the space.

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    You need a second because these things are better set up vertically.

    I've got two vertically, and I love it. It is completely amazing how many lines of code fit on those things when you rotate them.

    The other reason you need two? All Fog Creek summer interns are issued two Dell 2001FPs. Do you want to say that 21 year old kids on summer internships have a better setup than 20 year a Microsoft vet?

    all the best, Joel

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    May 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Bang bang.... he hates CRTs ...bang bang... more CRTs!!

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Now all you still need is a new keyboard:

    http://daskeyboard.com

    :-)

  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 19, 2005
    Personally, I do climbing to avoid hand injuries caused by excessive keyboard usage.

    Works pretty well and is a lot of fun :-)

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    May 19, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    I'm glad you're happy with it -- I just ordered two of them as they seem to have plummeted in price all of a sudden, and I was holding off on TFTs until I could get a large 1600x1200 one for less than a couple of limbs.

    I'm not sure about the vertical orientation that Joel espouses, but a dual monitor setup is one of those things that once you've tried you'll wonder how you managed without it. Don't feel bad about ordering new toys - it's not like your employer can't afford it, and you should consider it a perk of having been there for such a long time. I've only worked for my current employer for a couple of years, and so far I've persuaded them to buy me about £80,000 of neat gear. It wasn't essential, but I figure it saves about 2 hours a day through increased productivity and less hanging about waiting for stuff to happen so it'll pay for itself after a while, plus it keeps me happy, and a happy worker is a busy worker. (Or something.)

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    May 20, 2005
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    May 20, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    Who pays for the toys there Larry? Is it Microsoft or yourself? Do you get a budget for new kit or is it based on needs? I've seen a few of the channel9 vids and a lot of the developers have a multi-monitor / pc setup.

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    You'll be twice as productive? ;-)

    The 2001FP is not the widescreen version, right?

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    Monitors are like beds: Underappreciated when you consider how much they are used. You spend 1/3 of your life using one so why not get something top-notch?

    Amortize how you you would pay across the lifetime of using it and it's pennies compared to something 'cheap' like a magazine subscription.

    I think I'm preaching to the choir so I won't blather on. Be happy(er).

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    Not to play oneupsmanship, but I just got myself a Sony LCD that runs at 1900x1200 natively. Oh My Gawd it's beautiful. :)
    It was rather expensive but as the earlier poster said, a monitor is going to last a long time (the LCD is replacing a Sony CRT that's worked flawlessly for 7+ years) so I wanted something top-notch.

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    That's great but the 2405 is the one to rave about.. Atleast if you also watch movies and play games with it :-)

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    What do you want with one monitor? :-)

    http://www.sturmnet.org/blog/archives/2005/04/26/five-headed-desktop/

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    Don't forget to run ClearType Tuner.

    http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http%3A//www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/learnmore/cleartype.mspx&ei=KEaOQsH2A5KS-gGu0tDmAQ

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    Does Cleartype work properly on a 90-degree rotated LCD?

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    3840x2400 IBM t221 is what you want, hard to justify at the price though

    http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/intellistation/pro/t221/features_specs.html

  • Anonymous
    May 20, 2005
    "Does Cleartype work properly on a 90-degree rotated LCD?"

    It looks a bit funny, and the shadows round icon text are broken (there's a single pixel gap between the left side of the text and the shadow). It is "working properly", but due to the fact that most diagonal lines in text are angled <45 degrees from vertical the sub-pixel addressing plan doesn't work so well due to them being "the wrong way round" (i.e. three times wider than they are tall).

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    May 20, 2005
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    May 22, 2005
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    June 06, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    June 07, 2005
    I should add one caveat to my previous comment. It seems to me that working with landscape documents when my portrait mode is much worse than working with portrait documents when the monitor is set to landscape mode. I don't know why; maybe I'm just more used to the latter.

    But if you're someone who works with landscape documents a lot I don't recommend putting your monitors in portrait mode. (Unless, maybe, you have three monitors and you stretch the document across all three. But I generally don't like stretching a document across more than one monitor because of bezel issues.)

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