New Monitor or a Holiday?
It’s no contest, really.
Currently I use a $600 HP LCD monitor which requires a VGA input. Since I now have a DVI card in my computer, I have to use an adapter, which these days seems to be causing “ghosting”, or an unpleasant shadowing effect. Research involving about thirty seconds Googling indicates that I need a new monitor that supports DVI cables.
So I’ll be keeping an eye out in future for DVI monitors for about $600, so I can retire the HP to the back room and finally get rid of the old Phillips tube.
I can live with horrid ghosting. What I need more is a chance to step away from the grind and take a holiday. And that’s going to cost more, have a finite lifespan, and hopefully put the zing back in my working life.
Of course, if I win tonight’s Lotto draw, I’ll get both, and a nice unfeasibly large widescreen monster. And a more stylish case, and SATA disk and DVD writer drives, and a cool house or apartment in Australia to store it in, along with a trans-Tasman pipeline from my built-in beer tap direct to Mangatainoka.
Posted in Randomness (Op-Ed,Dear Diary...) by R Cruickshank 27/09/08 09:26 PM Tags: rant
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